Subject: Mowing of Hunting Lanes on Commercial Shooting Preserves

Farm Service Agency Notice CRP-380 authorizes mowing of hunting lanes on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts that are Commercial Shooting Preserves. A conservation plan modification is required before this practice can be applied and must include the attached addendum for Commercial Shooting Preserves.

CRP participants who wish to have the contracts modified must meet the following criteria:

• be a licensed commercial shooting preserve in Kansas,
• the shooting preserve is operated in a manner consistent with state agency rules,
• no barrier fencing or boundary limitations exist that prohibit wildlife access to and from the CRP acreage, and
• CRP cover is maintained according to the conservation plan.

Conservation plan modification for mowing of hunting lanes will include adding a wildlife habitat management practice. The practice will reference the addendum (attached) as items that will be completed. The addendum will be attached as a part of the conservation plan modification.

This practice is not authorized for individual CRP contracts that are not Commercial Shooting Preserves.

If you have any questions, please contact Gaye Bletscher, Soil Conservationist, Programs Staff, at (785) 823-4569, at the state office.

/s/

TOMAS M. DOMINGUEZ
State Conservationist

DIST: A, F, S, NPR, FSA (3), Bletscher, Sherraden, Schroeder (KDWP)

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