This article is about the Ducks Unlimited carbon offset program being awarded two USDA grants.

I found this article on the Ducks Unlimited website.

Ducks Unlimited received two grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to further carbon market development in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR). The first grant will improve the grassland carbon offset market, following the process for landowners to sell their carbon credits and invest in new credit contracts on about 10,000 PPR acres. The second grant will investigate the science and market potential for carbon offsets from wetland conservation in the Northern Great Plains. Both efforts focus on providing more incentives for waterfowl habitat conservation and financial benefits for private landowners.With this grant, DU developed an industry approved accounting method and contracts with nearly 50 different landowners.

By recieving these grants, Ducks Unlimited is helping grow the duck population all across the globe. They are giving the ducks an abundant place for habitat, breeding grounds, and a place to hangout without people shooting them all the time. Last fall, DU successfully developed nearly 40,000 carbon credits from at-risk grasslands, which were the first of their kind and resulted in a monumental sale to Chevrolet. “We are working with landowners who are predominately ranchers facing economic pressure to plow grasslands for more lucrative crop production,” Gascoigne said. The program protects grasslands that are at risk of conversion to row-crop production, which releases below ground carbon reserves.