The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service will have an additional sign-up period in fiscal year 2009 for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) to implement conservation practices related to improving wildlife habitat on private lands.  The application period is open for three weeks beginning June 15 and ending July 6.

Moderate spring temperatures and timely precipitation is turning the 2009 runoff season into a moderate water supply year according to the June Water Supply Outlook Report released by the Idaho Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS).

Sign-up for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) is available to seven Idaho counties starting May 11, 2009.  USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Farm Service Agency (FSA) jointly administer this program which protects working grazing lands from conversion to other uses.  The application period runs from May 11 through June 5, 2009 and is open to producers in Bannock, Bingham, Bonneville, Fremont, Madison, Oneida and Teton counties.