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Assistance available for replacing hurricane trees Sign-up has begun for the Emergency Forestry Conservation Reserve Program (EFCRP), a $504.1 million program created to help landowners and operators restore and enhance forestland damaged by the hurricanes that occurred in 2005, announced Danny F. Crawford, State Executive Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA). Local FSA offices will accept land enrollment offers from producers from July 17 through Oct. 20, 2006. To be eligible for EFCRP, a producer must have experienced at least a 35 percent loss to merchantable timber on private non-industrial forestland, and the loss must relate directly to one of the calendar year 2005 hurricanes. Tree loss must have occurred in one of 261 counties receiving presidential or secretarial primary disaster designations caused by 2005 Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina, Ophelia, Rita or Wilma. Randolph, Sumter, Tuscaloosa, Washington, Wilcox, Winston. More information on EFCRP is available at local FSA offices and online at: http://www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/publications/facts/html/efcrp06.htm. Additional information on USDA hurricane assistance is available at hftp://www.usda.gov/HurricaneInfo.xml.
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