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Goals

The original goals for the Illinois CREP were revised in 2010 to reflect the expansion into the Kaskaskia River Basin and to highlight the importance of the connection to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. While the spirit of the CREP goals have remained mostly the same, they were recently revised again to reflect changing program needs. The current CREP goals are:


Goal 1 - Establish and maintain decreasing long-term trends in annual sediment, nitrogen, and phosphorus loading within the Illinois and Kaskaskia watersheds.

Goal 2 - Increase the population of avian “Species of Greatest Conservation Need,” as defined in the Illinois Wildlife Action Plan, on land enrolled in CRP through this CREP by at least 50 percent when compared to similar land managed for agricultural production

Goal 3 - Increase the number of native fish species and environmentally sensitive aquatic insects (stoneflies, caddisflies, and mayflies) on average by 15 percent within stream reaches associated with land enrolled in CRP through this CREP when compared to similar streams surrounded by land managed for agricultural production. The stream reaches sampled for this goal will rotate between streams in the Kaskaskia Basin and the Illinois Basin annually.