Late summer brings beautiful cornfields, but tall crops can create dangerous blind spots at rural intersections.
To improve safety and enhance our environment, the Papio NRD, Pheasants Forever, The Nebraska Environmental Trust, and Nebraska Game & Parks Commission, offer a cost share program for landowners to plant native grasses and wildflowers to increase visibility.
Through our Pollinator Safety Corners Program, landowners can take one to three acres out of crop production at a four-way rural intersection and convert it into a mix of short, native grasses or pollinator habitat.
Landowners receive 75% cost share for seeds and an annual payment of $250 per acre for five years. Some participants even add bee boxes to their safety corners.
With your participation, we can make these intersections safer for our communities and beneficial for pollinators.
If you are interested in learning more about the program, please contact your Papio NRD field office representative.
Washington, Douglas, Sarpy Counties: John Zaugg (402) 670-4336
Burt County: Jon Hansen (402) 253-9911
Thurston, Dakota Counties: Kaden Kneifl (402) 677-6988
Federally authorized funding will provide over $90 million for the construction of vital flood mitigation structures throughout the Omaha metro. A portion of the funding will enable the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in partnership with the Papio NRD, to finalize the design of the recently named