Arkansas Partners Project on the Land Conservation Assistance Network

Arkansas Partners Project
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last updated: February 2022

The objective of the program is to help ducks and other waterbirds return north to their breeding areas physically conditioned for maximum reproductive success. The program offers assistance to private landowners interested in restoring wetlands and managing existing wetlands, idle areas, and agricultural fields after harvest as shallow wetland habitat. These flooded areas provide valuable forage that birds need to meet their daily energy requirements.
The Arkansas Partners Project provides assistance with wetland restoration, development, and management. Trained biologists provide private landowners and managers with:

Technical assistance including evaluation of habitat development potential, restoration and management recommendations, and a water management plan, if needed.
Water control structures fabricated from used steel pipe and fitted with flashboard risers.

Cooperators must sign a Wetland Development Agreement that:

Has a minimum term of 15 years
Limits duck hunting to half-days only
Requires that crop fields be rolled, not disked or burned, and managed to hold water
Requires structures to be closed and fields kept flooded through February
Cooperators maintain water control structures for the life of the agreement
Permits annual inspection by waterfowl biologist

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