The Nebraska Community Access Partnership (NCAP) builds on the state’s successful Open Fields and Water program, which pays willing landowners to allow public walk-in hunting access. ⁠ ⁠ At $25 per acre for high-quality CRP, and $10 per acre for rangelands and grasslands, Pheasants Forever’s new program offers these landowners an even bigger incentive to enroll their lands in OFW under a five-year contract. (These one-time incentives are on top of the annual OFW payments of 50 cents to $15 per acre that private landowners receive from the state.) As part of that contract, and to maintain high-quality habitat, participating landowners can’t graze or hay the acreage during those five years. The only exception to the rule is limited management of grasslands. The NCAP is also part of a much larger initiative that PF calls the Public Access to Habitat Program. It started in South Dakota, where it’s helped open nearly 70,000 acres of private land to public hunters. PF is also adding acreage ...