Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Natural Resources
NR 1-99 - Fish, Game and Enforcement, Forestry and Recreation
Chapter NR 47 - Forestry Grant And State Aid Administration
Subchapter VII - The Private Forest Landowner Grant Program
Section NR 47.85 - Costs
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง NR 47.85
Current through August 26, 2024
(1) ELIGIBLE COSTS.
(a) Grants under the program shall be used to
prepare management plans or manage the following lands under an approved
landowner forest stewardship plan:
1. All of
the nonindustrial private forest land with existing tree cover within a
contiguous tract.
2. Other
nonindustrial private forest land within the same contiguous tract which is
identified by the landowner and approved by the department as suitable for the
approved program practice scheduled.
3. Other contiguous related lands included in
the forest stewardship plan, such as water, streams and stream corridors,
wetlands, marshes, savannas, barrens and prairies.
(b) To be eligible for a grant under this
program, one or more eligible practices shall be identified in the forest
stewardship plan, except that a grant may be awarded for the development of a
forest stewardship plan.
Note See s. NR 47.86 foreligible practices.
(c) Eligible costs are all those associated
with the preparation or installation of a specific practice as approved by the
state forester.
(2) INELIGIBLE COSTS.
(a) No person may use grant
funds under this subchapter for any of the following:
1. Costs incurred before an application for
grant assistance is approved.
2.
The implementation of any practice already required by law, rule, regulation or
other authority, except for those practices required in the managed forest law
program under ch. 77, Stats.
3.
Repairs or normal upkeep or maintenance of any practice, except those necessary
to ensure seedling or shrub survival, restore prairies, barrens or savannas,
control invasive species or other instances where several years of practice
implementation are necessary to properly establish a practice, as determined by
the department.
4. As a match or in
combination with any other public funds.
5. Practices not approved by the department
in writing, or changes to a previously approved practice, unless authorized by
the department in writing.
(b) Except as authorized by the department,
grant assistance may not be paid for repeating practices on the same site by
the same landowner which have been implemented under the forestry incentives
program or any other federal, state or local government programs, except where
the practices are repeated due to a failure of a prior practice without fault
of the landowner.
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