LIP PROGRAM, 2: How to work with Texas Parks and 
Wildlife on management goals for your property [04 " ... has 
to offer."] ... ahead on Passport to Texas.

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The Texas Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) offers 
funding opportunities for private landowners wishing to 
implement natural resource conservation practices on 
their lands. 

05 -- I usually send them to their local field biologist to start the 
relationship.

Arlene Kalmbach [CALM-bock] coordinates the program. 
After the initial phone call, there's a site visit to ... 

11 -- ... get the goals that the landowner has for the property, and 
maybe get the biologist's perspective on what's there and what 
potential there is for some conservation work. And then they go 
from there.

LIP efforts focus on projects aimed at creating, 
restoring, protecting and enhancing habitat for rare or 
at-risk species throughout the state, as well as activities 
that positively impact riparian areas and watersheds.

10 -- Sometimes they may bring in other specialists. Riparian 
specialists ... an invertebrate biologist. It really starts with the 
landowner's goals and what that property has to offer.

Through funding partnerships, the program offers cost-
sharing with private landowners on LIP projects. TPW 
covers a percentage of the proposed project costs; 
landowners, meantime, must contribute a minimum 
percentage through in-kind labor, materials, or 
finances, for example.

Find Landowner Incentive Program application details on 
the TPW website.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti.