GCJV CGRIP Focal Areas

<span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'>C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factors for suitability of grassland bird habitat on their property. The Grassland Restoration Incentive Program (GRIP) was first implemented in 2013 by the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture (</span><a href='http://opjv.org/' style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; border-top: 0px solid transparent; border-right: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-image: initial; border-radius: 2px; padding: 2px; margin: 0px; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold !important; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent !important;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>OPJV</a><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'>) in the </span><a href='https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e9ce5312ff004f28b1cb2bf8bdf423e3#' style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid solid dashed; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(85, 85, 85); border-image: initial; border-radius: 2px; padding: 2px; margin: 0px; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold !important;' rel='nofollow ugc'>Edwards Plateau</a><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'> and the Oaks and Prairies Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) of Texas and Oklahoma. In 2017, the GRIP was expanded to the </span><a href='https://fws.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=e9ce5312ff004f28b1cb2bf8bdf423e3#' style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid solid dashed; border-color: transparent transparent rgb(85, 85, 85); border-image: initial; border-radius: 2px; padding: 2px; margin: 0px; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold !important;' rel='nofollow ugc'>Tamaulipan Brushlands</a><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'> BCR by the Rio Grande Joint Venture </span><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'>(</span><a href='http://www.rgjv.org/' style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; border-top: 0px solid transparent; border-right: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-image: initial; border-radius: 2px; padding: 2px; margin: 0px; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold !important; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent !important;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>RGJV</a><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'>). In 2018 the Gulf Coast Joint Venture implemented C-GRIP in the central section of coastal Texas. C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factor(s) to provide suitable grassland bird habitat on their property. Modeled after the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentive Program (</span><a href='https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/programs/financial/eqip/' style='box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; border-top: 0px solid transparent; border-right: 0px solid transparent; border-left: 0px solid transparent; border-image: initial; border-radius: 2px; padding: 2px; margin: 0px; font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold !important; border-bottom: 0px solid transparent !important;' target='_blank' rel='nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer'>EQIP</a><span style='color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: open_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;'>) and other similar programs, C-GRIP is a voluntary program that reimburses private landowners a set payment rate for identified practices that generally fall into the categories of brush management, prescribed burning, native grass reseeding, and prescribed grazing.</span><div><font color='#000000' face='open_sansregular, sans-serif'><span style='font-size: 14px;'><br /></span></font></div><div><font color='#000000' face='open_sansregular, sans-serif'><span style='font-size: 14px;'>This Feature Layer depicts the five focal areas used to prioritize grassland bird habitat conservation used in CGRIP.<br /></span></font><div><font face='Arial'><br /></font></div><div><font face='Arial'><br /></font></div></div>