Reforestation of Timberlands (RT)
Conservation Incentive Program Fact Sheet

  • Program Name: Reforestation of Timberlands
  • Abbreviation: RT
  • Primary Goal: Provide cost-share assistance to landowners for pine reforestation.
  • Contact Agency: Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF)
  • Where Applicable: Statewide.
  • Other Sources of Information: The Virginia Department of Forestry (VDOF) Web site.

Application Form: Word document (English)

Program Description and Requirements

Effective May 1, 2009, the incentive payments to landowners for approved projects is:

  • Practice 1: Planting loblolly or Virginia pine - $25 per acre.
  • Practice 2: Site preparation and planting loblolly or Virginia pine - $60 per acre. Includes herbicide spraying and planting open or abandoned fields.
  • Practice 3: Planting shortleaf, white, pitch-loblolly, or longleaf pine - $60 per acre.
  • Practice 4: Site preparation and planting shortleaf, white, pitch-loblolly, or longleaf pine - $85 per acre.
  • Practice 5: Herbicide site preparation and planting (any species on cutover lands) - $90 per acre.
  • Practice 6: Aerial Herbicide release application for all pines except white - $20 per acre.
  • Practice 7: Herbicide release application for white pine - $75 per acre.
  • Practice 8: Any RT project on lands protected by a conservation easement - $75 per acre.
  • Practice 9: Ground release application - $45/acre.
  • Cost share rates shall not exceed 75% of the total cost of the project.

Cost-share rates shall not exceed 75% of the total cost of the project.

Signup is continuous and starts May 1 for the program year starting July 1. The practices must be maintained for 10 years. This program is funded by the forest industry in Virginia with matching funds from the Virginia General Fund.

All programs, activities, and services of the conservation partnership are available to people on a nondiscriminatory basis regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, physical ability, political affiliation, and marital or familial status. We are all equal opportunity employers.

Last modified: Monday, 19-Oct-2009 16:00:34 EDT

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