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2008 Matching Grants Program
25 projects for Conservation Districts were funded this year through the Colorado State Conservation Board. Project size ranges from $5,925 to $25,000 for a total of $491,000 in state funds. Matched with an equal amount of cash and in-kind funds from the Districts and their partners, an investment of $982,000 in natural resources is being made for the benefit of the citizens of Colorado today and in the future.
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Reports will be listed as projects complete.
Please click on the District name to view the report.
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The projects funded for 2008 are:
| Conservation District | County/Region | Project |
| Agate | Elbert | Rangeland health and erosion prevention cost-share |
| Baca County | Baca | Range grazing management stock water cost-share |
| Burlington | Kit Carson | Windbreak repair and installation cost-share |
| Centennial | Logan | Diffuse knapweed control cost-share |
| Center | Saguache | Noxious weed education, IPM planning + cost-share spraying |
| Costilla | Costilla | Weed control with goats |
| Debeque Plateau Valley | Garfield | Irrigation water control structures cost-share |
| Delta | Delta/Gunnison | Yellow toadflax and cinquefoil control on Coal and N. Anthracite creeks |
| Double El | Elbert/El Paso | Conservation practices cost share |
| Douglas County | Douglas | Conservation practices cost share on small acreage properties |
| Gunnison | Gunnison/ Hindsdale/ Saguache |
Noxious weeds control cost-share |
| Kiowa | Elbert | Conservation plans practice implementation cost share |
| Mancos | Montezuma | Riparian restoration on Mancos River |
| Northeast Prowers | Prowers | Windbreak installation cost share |
| Olney Boone | El Paso/Crowley | Range grazing management stock water cost share |
| Prowers | Prowers | Range grazing management stock water cost share |
| Prowers/ NE Prowers | Prowers | Landowner weed control education and cost share |
| Rio Grande | Rio Grande/ Mineral/ Hinsdale |
Noxious weed spray cost-share within IPM plans |
| Rio Grand Assn CDs | San Luis Valley | Conservation Education Specialist for San Luis Valley |
| San Juan | Archuleta/ Mineral/ Hinsdale |
Small acreage workshops on forest health and irrigation followed by practices cost share |
| San Miguel Basin | Montrose/ San Miguel |
Mapping and treatment of yellow cinquefoil |
| Shavano | Montrose/Ouray /Gunnison/Delta |
Pinion-Juniper forest management on Uncompahgre Plateau |
| Upper Huerfano | Huerfano | Conservation practices cost share-esp. limited income landowners |
| Yuma | Yuma | Conservation practices cost share |
| Yuma County | Yuma | Knapweed control on Arickeree/Republican River |