The CREP program improves hunting/fishing habitats. Here is an other idea for funding the program.
CREP pays farmers to retire environmentally sensitive land, restore widlife habitat and re-forest the edges of rivers, lakes and streams to protect them from soil and pesticide runoff.
Conservationists want bottled-water tax
INDIANAPOLIS - Soil and water conservationists lobbied legislators this week for a sales tax on bottled water and packaged ice to fund their Clean Water Indiana program.
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