Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program(CREP)
Unique Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) state and federal partnerships allow you to receive incentive payments for installing specific conservation practices that help protect environmentally sensitive land, decrease erosion, restore wildlife habitat, and safeguard ground and surface water.

Grassland Reserve Program (GRP)
The Grassland Reserve Program (GRP) helps landowners restore and protect grassland, rangeland, pastureland, and shrubland and provides assistance for rehabilitating grasslands.
http://www.apfo.usda.gov/Internet/FSA_File/grpfactsheet08.pdf

Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP)
Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to help participants develop fish and wildlife habitat on private agricultural land, non-industrial private forest land, and Indian land.

Landowners with eligible agricultural lands including cropland, grassland, pasture, and other land determined by NRCS to be suitable for wildlife habitat development are eligible to apply.

WHIP in New York will have two focus areas: enhancing early successional wildlife habitat with shrubland and establishing and enhancing grassland habitat for declining bird species, pollinators, and other grassland wildlife species. Examples of eligible practices include planting of new wildlife seedings, management activities like mowing and fertilizing, prescribed burning, and early successional clearings to enhance shrubland habitat.
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/whip/index.html

Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)
The Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) is a voluntary program that provides financial and technical assistance to eligible agricultural producers who are willing to address priority environmental issues by implementing conservation practices.

There are several new “statewide focus areas” now offered as a result of the Farm Bill. Producers can apply to the statewide focus areas, in addition to one local focus area.
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/eqip/index.html

Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI)             
The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is one of the 16 cabinet and agency organizations that will work together with landowners in the Great Lakes to protect and restore the Great Lakes ecosystem through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). A portion of the $475 million allocated for the GLRI will be made available through NRCS to address the environmental issues facing the Great Lakes, including invasive species, near-shore health and nonpoint source pollution, and habitat and wildlife protection.

In New York, priority areas within the Great Lakes watershed have been selected to receive funding through GLRI. Funding for conservation activities that address the environmental issues outlined in the GLRI plan will be made available through existing conservation programs offered by NRCS.
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/glri/index.html

Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP)
The Wetlands reserve Program is a voluntary program. Its purpose is to preserve, protect, and restore the Nation’s valuable wetlands. Wetland protection will improve wildlife and migratory bird habitat, improve water quality, and provide flood water retention, ground water recharge, open space, and aesthetic values.

To be eligible, land must be restorable to wetland conditions. Eligible lands include wetlands farmed under natural conditions, farmed wetlands, prior converted cropland, commenced converted wetlands, farmed wetlands pasture, stream corridors, and land substantially altered by flooding.
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/wrp/index.html