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Project WINGS accepting grant applications Wildlife Incentives for Non-game and Game Species is a rights-of-way management campaign designed to create new wildlife lands along gas and electrical transmission lines. It offers cash grants and professional wildlife management advice to groups and individuals committed to rights-of-way brush control and habitat improvement. Projecct WINGS is a Georgia success story for both residents and wildlife. Versions of Project WINGS can now be found in several other states. Electric and gas utilities are essential to the economy and standard of living. Utilities power homes, businesses and factories through a vast network of transmission corridors or "rights-of-ways." These corridors vary from 50 to 500 feet in width, cover thousands of acres, and must be managed to prevent undesirable growth that could interfere with the normal delivery of power. Project WINGS is important since it helps people transform rights-of-way into productive wildlife habitat, ensuring healthier wildlife populations while providing the safe and efficient delivery of energy to more than 7.5 million Georgians. Landowners, leaseholders, hunting clubs, wildlife organizations and others committed to the conservation and management of electrical transmission rights-of-way may apply for a grant. Applications are accepted May 15 through July 15 of each year at all Natural Resources Conservation Service offices. Grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Grant recipients have a three-year obligation to follow accepted wildlife practices and prevent the growth of tall brush. Grant awards are based on the amount of rights-ofway to be managed. Monies are paid over three years at a flat rate of $50 per acre per year. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service develops the plan once participants select from a menu of typical wildlife management practices. Participants choose their own plan by selecting management practices from the menu. Acceptable management practices include: mowing with fallow disking, annual plantings and permanent plantings. The maximum total payment for the three-year contract cannot exceed $1,500 per contract. Grants are paid within 60 days of work completion, as reported by the local NRCS office.
Contact the Early County NRCS office for more information at 229-723-3825 ext. 3.
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