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Healthy Forests Reserve Program Helps Protect Habitat for Federally-listed Species in the Ozark Highlands of Northeastern Oklahoma

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working in cooperation with the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) and Oklahoma Forestry Services to implement the Healthy Forests Reserve Program (HFRP) in northeastern Oklahoma. The HFRP is a Farm Bill program for private landowners. The purpose of the HFRP is to assist landowners, on a voluntary basis, in restoring, enhancing and protecting forestland resources on private lands through conservation easements, 30-year contracts and 10-year cost-share agreements. The program is being offered in five counties in northeastern Oklahoma: Adair, Cherokee, Delaware, Sequoyah, and Ottawa counties. The federally-listed species that are being targeted for habitat and population recovery activities include the gray bat, the Ozark big-eared bat, and the Ozark cavefish. The HFRP is administered by the NRCS. For more information about HFRP, please contact your local U.S. Department of Agriculture - NRCS Service Center. Additional information also is available here.