The Wildlife Habitat Conservation and Management Program (WHCMP) offers a property tax incentive to private landowners who want to provide wildlife habitat on their properties instead of, or in addition to, farming, growing timber, or other land uses. Under the WHCMP, land receives a wildlife habitat special assessment, where property taxes may be assessed at a lower value.
Many landowners may need assistance to implement certain restoration actions on the land. For example, working with local biologists can help develop site-appropriate prescriptions and find financial incentives to carefully reintroduce natural fire regimes as a part of a plan to reduce wildfire risk (Key Conservation Issue: Disruption to Disturbance Regimes).