Wetlands and wildlife in the Rainwater Basin will benefit from several recently announced Nebraska Environmental Trust grants, including three grants awarded to the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. Wetlands in the Rainwater Basin provide migratory habitat for millions of geese and ducks each spring, as well as hundreds of thousands of
Funk, Nebraska – “Spoonbill Flats” is the name selected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the Rainwater Basin’s newest Waterfowl Production Area. The USFWS’s Rainwater Basin Wetland Management District received 143 responses to its request that the public help name the new WPA. Andrew Nelson of Springfield, Nebraska,
Our partners include the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, which manage public lands for wildlife habitat. However, agriculture producers and other private landowners are indispensable partners in habitat conservation. The Rainwater Basin Joint Venture offers private lands programs that can benefit both agriculture and wildlife.
Eight out of ten years, I could never get in there and harvest that low spot. Now I can just put it out of my mind.
As livestock producers, we can get benefits out of the wetlands, but those benefits also help the wildlife, hunters, and the migration.
