Joe Dembeck, executive director at Somerset County SWCD, offered a virtual webinar presentation highlighting real-world, program / projects on USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) cost-share programs available in Maine to provide financial support to woodland owners managing their land for timber quality, wildlife habitat and forest health.

Click here to view the YouTube webinar .

Joe shared advice, information, and ‘lessons learned’ with ME NRCS Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), from application to implementation, through his experience conducting a CSP project on forestland that he and his wife own in Maine.

THIS EVENT WAS HOSTED BY THE LOW-IMPACT FORESTRY PROGRAM AT MAINE ORGANIC FARMERS & GARDENERS ASSOCIATION (MOFGA).