Sounds like an interesting program!
I can not speak to it but I did enter into a landowner agreement with US Fish and Wildlife , Partners for Wildlife on my land. I am in the epicenter for the Fed endangered Karner Blue Butterfly . With the help of Partners for wildlife we forestry mulched 28 acres, herbicided and planted a native seed mix with 40 plus native flowers and 6 native grasses. I do not want to mention numbers but Partners bore a large percentage of the costs including all the seed, mulching and most of the herbicding. Every landowner agreement is different as far as cost sharing. I am located in Central Wisconsin, Waushara County.
You might want to consider contacting Partners and arranging a site visit. As far as I know site visits are at no cost.
One consideration with Partners is the term of the landowners agreement. 10 years versus 5 for Bee and Butterfly. I will say this however, I was expecting a landowner agreement that was pages and pages long with commitments, requirements,legalease etc. It was about two paragraphs long and was as close to a handshake agreement as possible.
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I ran Bee and Butterfly program by the Partners biologist that I work with on my property and he mentioned that Bee and Butterfly does not utilize local genotype seeds in their seed mixes. If that is a concern you might want to have that discussion with them before planting.