Florida Farm Grows Longleaf Pine, Increases Wildlife

Randall Weiseman Ag "Outdoors", Florida, Forestry, General, USDA-NRCS

fl-nrcs-gopher-tortoiseBack in the mid-’80s, Rebecca Shaw decided to plant loblolly pine on her farm located south of Quincy, Florida. But over the years, she and her son Dick decided they also wanted better wildlife habitat on their property. So they learned about USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP).


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More on this story can be found on the Florida NRCS website.