Applying for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program

Learn about applying for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP). Through EQIP, NRCS works one-on-one with producers to develop a conservation plan that outlines conservation practices and activities to help solve on-farm resource issues. Producers implement practices and activities in their conservation plan that can lead to cleaner water and air, healthier soil and better wildlife habitat, all while improving their agricultural operations. EQIP helps producers make conservation work for them. Financial assistance for practices may be available through EQIP.  Some producers may also qualify for advance payment.

Sunny Dooley, based in Vanderwagon, New Mexico, is a storyteller, folklorist and cultural consultant – collecting, learning and retelling the oral tradition of the Diné Hozhojii Hané (Navajo Blessingway stories). She has shared these stories by oral tradition in Navajo and in English for a variety of organizations, universities, elementary schools, and conferences throughout the U.S., Canada, Africa, Europe and Mexico including the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, the Denver Arts Museum, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISDI), and programs sponsored by the PEW Charitable Trust. In 2025, she executive produced the documentary film, “Ways of Knowing: A Navajo Nuclear History.”