Pronghorn Antelope
EQIP funds will encourage conservation measures that will facilitate recovery
of the pronghorn antelope. These projects will provide landowners with technical
and financial assistance to implement practices that will restore and maintain
Pronghorn Antelope habitat.
Resource Concern: Wildlife Habitat
Eligible Counties:
Brewster
Presidio
Jeff Davis
Culberson
Hudspeth
Reeves
Pecos
Screening Criteria:
High Priority
Offered acres have an existing pronghorn population and are within the core
pronghorn habitat areas of Brewster, Presidio, Jeff Davis, Culberson, Hudspeth,
Reeves and Pecos Counties as identified by TPWD map.
Medium Priority
Offered acres are adjacent to or within 5 miles of existing populations.
Low Priority
Offered acres are potentially suitable pronghorn habitat, but not within 5 miles of existing populations.
Eligible Practices
Brush Management
Fencing
Contour Ripping and Seeding
Fireguards
Wildlife Watering Facility
Pipeline
Incentive Practices
Prescribed Grazing
Ranking Criteria:
Issue #
- (100pts.) Are 100 percent of existing exterior fences pronghorn friendly or are you
willing to modify 100 percent of your exterior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
- (95pts.) Are 100 percent of existing interior fences pronghorn friendly or are you
willing to modify 100 percent of your interior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
(requires approval of adjacent landowner)
- (90 pts.) Are you installing Brush Management by selective mechanical control
or chemical IPT to improve pronghorn habitat?
- (85 pts.) Are you willing to carry out a 24 month grazing deferment in key
Pronghorn areas to enhance grassland conditions and improve
fawning cover? (subject to limitations)
- (80 pts.) Are you willing to modify 50 percent or more of your non-pronghorn
friendly exterior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
- (75 pts.) Are you willing to modify 50 percent or more of your non-pronghorn
friendly interior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
- ( 70 pts.) Are you willing to carry out a 12 month grazing deferment in key
Pronghorn areas to enhance grassland condition and improve fawning cover?
(subject to limitations)
- (65 pts.) Will new cross-fencing be installed to improve overall grazing
management or to partition key pronghorn areas with pronghorn friendly fences?
- (55 pts.) Are you actively involved in a predator control program between
January and May to increase fawn survival? (participant must provide
documentation)
- (50 pts.) Are you willing to modify 25 percent or more of your non-pronghorn
friendly exterior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
- (45 pts.) Are you willing to modify 25 percent or more of your non-pronghorn
friendly interior fences to make them pronghorn friendly?
- (40 pts.) Are you applying to install Brush Management with Tebuthiuron
(Spike)? ( limited to 20 percent of an enrolled pasture)
- (35 pts.) Are you applying to install Contour Ripping and seeding?
- (30pts.) Are you applying to install fireguards for prescribed burning?
- (25pts.) Are you applying to install pronghorn friendly wildlife watering
facilities?
- (15 pts.) Has the land being included in the EQIP application been under an
active TPWD Wildlife Plan for the last 2 years that
specifically addresses pronghorn habitat management practices?
- (10 pts.) Are you willing to develop a TPWD Wildlife Management Plan within
one year of EQIP funding that addresses pronghorn habitat management?
Restoration and Improvement of Pronghorn Habitat in the Trans Pecos with EQIP Information and Overview
EQIP Incentive Fact Sheet - Fence Modification
for Pronghorn Antelope
Pronghorn EQIP Ranking - Notes and Explanations
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