75% of the nation's wildlife food and habitat is provided by farm and ranches.
Farmers have enrolled 31.4 million acres of their land in the Conservation Reserve Program to protect the environment and provide habitat for wildlife (as of 5/1/00).
Through various conservation incentive programs (CRP, EQIP, ACP, etc.) farmers have pledged to install 2 million acres of conservation buffers by 2002.
The net loss of wetlands has decreased from a level of 27,000 acres lost each year (1982-92) to 24,000 acres each year (from 1992-97) through designed programs, such as the Wetlands reserve Program. [An 11% reduction]
