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029 � r o cer / r e act overfo . to alp - protect habitat increase the acreage dedicated to By PAT ROBERTSON wildlife habitat each year. 1 Staff Writer i Cash grants and professional Power line rights of way, often wildlife management advice will choked with briars and scrub be provided to land owners or j brush , could. become . havens for F managers who � are committed to . wildlife under an . incentive pro - five years. of rights - of-way man- gram launched , Monday . , . . ageriment: Representatives of 38 power Funding is provided by electric companies , 4 utilities, tinriber compa- power companies and electric nies , conservation organizations cooperatives . Jan. 1- is the deadline and state and federal natural to sign. up for the first year. resources agencies . signed the Landowners , hunt clubs , agreement establishing the ;Power wildlife organizations And I others for Wildlife program. may apply for the grants . Applica- " With an expanding human . tions and brochures are 'available population combined with the loss ;at local USDA-NRCS and Soil and and degradation of wildlife habitat, Water Conservation District we need to seize every opportunity offices , to protect and , enhance habitat , " Approved participants can said Paul Sandifer , executive receive .as much as $ 60 per acre director _ of the state Department of and a maximum $ 1 , 000 in a five - Natural Resources . 1 . year period to manage for wildlife The agreement will provide. . in rights-of-way across their prop- funding to protect up to 500 miles erty., of power line rights of way. across. Typical practices include the state next year ; said Walley mechanical and chemical brush Turner, , acting state conservation- control and permanent and annual ist with the USDA= Natural wildlife plantings . . Resources Conservation Service . Sandifer said the program will Turner said with an estimated benefit quail , rabbits and other 10 , 000 miles of rights of way in game , and will support songbirds , South' Carolina , the aim is to hawks and other wildlife .