Conservation Reserve Program – Highly Erodible Land (CRP)

Conservation Reserve Program – Highly Erodible Land (CRP)

Programs Conservation Reserve Program – Highly Erodible Land (CRP) The goal of CRP is to establish long-term resource conserving covers on eligible land to reduce erosion, provide wildlife habitat benefits and provide for water quality benefits from reduced erosion,...
Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP)

Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP)

Programs Virginia Conservation Assistance Program (VCAP) The Virginia Conservation Assistance Program is an urban cost-share program that provides financial incentives and technical and educational assistance to property owners installing eligible Best Management...
Open Space Easements 1

Open Space Easements 1

Programs Open Space Easements 1 Under Virginia’s Open-Space Land Act, open-space easements are legal agreements between landowners and a public body, such as the Virginia Outdoors Foundation, that limit development rights while allowing landowners to continue living...
Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)

Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)

Programs Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) Conservation Stewardship Program helps agricultural producers maintain and improve their existing conservation systems and adopt additional conservation activities to address priority resources concerns. Participants...
Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share Program (VACS)

Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share Program (VACS)

Programs Virginia Agricultural Cost-Share Program (VACS) The VACS objectives are to encourage voluntary installation of agricultural best management practices (BMPs) and address Virginia’s nonpoint source pollution water quality objectives, and to improve water...