2005 Conservation Security Program (CSP)

The Conservation Security Program (CSP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to conserve and improve soil, water, air, energy, plant and animal life on tribal and private working lands—cropland, grassland, improved pasture, as well as certain forested land that is an incidental part of an agriculture operation.

The CSP has a unique role among USDA conservation programs. It identifies and rewards those farmers who meet the highest standards of conservation and environmental management on their operations, creates powerful incentives for other producers to meet those same standards of conservation performance on their operations, and provides public benefits for generations to come.

Visit the Programs area of the National Natural Resources Conservation Service Web site to get detailed CSP Information including fact sheets, questions and answers, and other information.

There were five watersheds selected for the CSP program in New York for 2005.  They were:

• Ausable Watershed
• Buffalo-Eighteenmile Creek Watershed
• Niagara River-Tonawanda Creek Watershed
• Northern Long Island Watershed
• Southern Long Island Watershed

CSP from Other Program Years

• 2008 CSP Information

• 2006 CSP Information

Contact Information

Assistant State Conservationist for Programs

Donald Pettit
Syracuse, New York
Telephone: 315-477-6504

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