The Conservation Reserve Program remains the largest environmental program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with enrollment exceeding 34 million acres nationwide. Because improvement in program performance is an important goal of CRP administrators, participants' input on how the program is working "on the ground" is an important factor in its evaluation. At the request of the USDA Farm Service Agency, the USGS completed a national survey of over 2,000 landowners holding active CRP contracts in 2001. The survey results describe participant opinions about personal effects of the CRP, social benefits, wildlife issues, environmental benefits, and USDA administration of the program. The report, "A National Survey of Conservation Reserve Program Participants on Environmental Effects, Wildlife Issues, and Vegetation Management on Program Lands," is available as Biological Science Report USGS/BRD/BSR 2003-0001 and is online at http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products/publications/21075/21075.asp
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