Landowner Incentive Program
Helping Private Landowners Protect Rare Plants and Animals

The biggest threat to rare species is loss or degradation of habitat. With more than 85% of Wisconsin’s landscape under private ownership, landowners play a key role in helping conserve the beauty and diversity of Wisconsin’s natural heritage for future generations. As a landowner, you can make a difference. Would you be interested in:

• Creating or improving habitat for plants and wildlife?
• Receiving technical and financial help to improve your property?
• Helping wildlife and plant species, especially rare species?

If so, the Landowner Incentive Program can offer you advice and support. The primary goal of LIP is to help private landowners create and manage habitat for at-risk (rare) species that are rare and/or declining. We do this by providing advice, management plans, and cost-share funding to individuals and organizations proposing projects on private lands throughout the state.

Eligible projects under LIP include, but are not limited to, conducting prescribed burns, restoring native vegetation, and removing invasive and woody species to benefit at-risk species. Projects need to occur in the LIP priority area(s):

Driftless Area 2009-2010 Priority Area

Prairie and Savanna Habitat

Northern Lake Michigan Coastal Landscape