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Landowner Incentive Program
http://www.mainenaturalareas.org/docs/lip/
Building on the tremendous success of Beginning with Habitat, the Maine Landowner Incentive Program (LIP) has initiated the planning necessary to implement the recommendations developed by Beginning with Habitat and other initiatives to conserve important habitats for rare, threatened, and endangered wildlife, plants, and natural communities in Maine. LIP funds are provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and are being used in Maine to initiate a landowner incentive program that offers a variety of tools to landowners for rare and endangered plants and wildlife habitat conservation including funds for conservation easements, cooperative management agreements and habitat management activities.