The Farmable Wetlands Program is a

wetlands A wetland is a distinct ecosystem that is flooded or saturated by water, either permanently (for years or decades) or seasonally (for weeks or months). Flooding results in oxygen-free (anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. The ...

conservation program in the United States. The Farm Service Agency (FSA) runs the program through the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), with the goal of rehabilitation previously farmed wetlands.

Legislation

It was first authorized as a pilot program in Title XI of the FY2001 agriculture appropriations legislation (P.L. 106-387) to enroll up to of farmable

smaller than in six Upper Midwest states (with no more than in a single state) into the Conservation Reserve Program. The

2002 farm bill The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, also known as the 2002 Farm Bill, includes ten titles, addressing a great variety of issues related to agriculture, ecology, energy, trade, and nutrition. This act has been superseded by the 2007 ...

(P.L. 107-171, Sec. 2101) made this a national program (with an enrollment limit of per state), and made changes in eligibility requirements, such as increasing the maximum size of eligible wetlands from to .

References

{{reflist United States Department of Agriculture programs Wetlands of the United States