USFWS/Gulf Coast Joint VentureC-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factors for suitability of grassland bird habitat on their property. The Grassland Restoration Incentive Program (GRIP) was first implemented in 2013 by the Oaks and Prairies Joint Venture ( OPJV ) in the Edwards Plateau and the Oaks and Prairies Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) of Texas and Oklahoma. In 2017, the GRIP was expanded to the Tamaulipan Brushlands BCR by the Rio Grande Joint Venture ( RGJV ). In 2018 the Gulf Coast Joint Venture implemented C-GRIP in the central section of coastal Texas. C-GRIP provides financial incentives to private landowners for conducting habitat treatments that address the greatest limiting factor(s) to provide suitable grassland bird habitat on their property. Modeled after the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) Environmental Quality Incentive Program ( EQIP ) and other similar programs, C-GRIP is a voluntary program that reimburses private landowners a set payment rate for identified practices that generally fall into the categories of brush management, prescribed burning, native grass reseeding, and prescribed grazing. This Feature Layer depicts the five focal areas used to prioritize grassland bird habitat conservation used in CGRIP.ArcGIS FeatureLayerhttps://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ff5527d2315a46f48b17fa3ca2feb73d_0engU.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Open DataPublicGCJV CGRIP Focal Areas [United States]Web servicesUnited StatesLast Modified: 2021-12-15