Listen: Governor Kelly Armstrong’s conversation with Scott Hennen
BISMARCK, N.D. – On the Flag, North Dakota Governor Kelly Armstrong said he will introduce a pilot project approved through the state’s Outdoor Heritage Fund on Thursday, January 29 to create more habitat.
“The first way you solve that before you ever get into access, before you get into everything else is have more deer. Have more pheasants. You can’t do that if you can’t have habitat,” Armstrong said on “What’s On Your Mind?”
The Outdoor Heritage Fund receives up to $40 million per biennium from oil and tax revenue to provide grants to state agencies, tribal governments, local governments and non-profits to enhance conservation.
Armstrong said he spoke to farmers and agriculture groups to see how more habitat on private property can be made after Conservation Reserve Program land went away and winter impacted the land.
He added there’s not a lot of public land in the state and if this pilot project works, he wants to figure out how to bring it statewide to have 500,000 acres of habitat land.
