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2009 Matching Grants Program
Colorado Conservation Districts really gave the 2009 Matching Grants Program a run for its money! Fifty-seven proposals were submitted requesting over $1.2 million dollars. Twenty-eight projects were funded and received $448,446 in state funding and districts and their partners provided $631,525 in matching contributions - approaching a quarter of a million dollars more than the minimum required! What a great return-on-investment for Colorado taxpayers in conserving their local natural resources!
Reports will be listed as projects complete.
Please click on the District name (in blue) to view the completed report.
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Conservation District |
County/Region |
Project |
| Agate | Elbert | Cost share conservation practices for soil erosion and grazing management |
| Baca County | Baca | Cost-share for windbreaks and a District tree demonstration plot |
| Bent | Las Animas | Windbreaks/backyard conservation tree planting & Master Forester course |
| Burlington | Kit Carson | Cost-share new windbreaks and renovate existing windbreaks |
| Centennial | Logan | Diffuse knapweed control |
| Center | Saguache | Implementation of IPM plans for noxious weeds treatment |
| Cheyenne | Cheyenne | Cost-share various conservation practices- focus on projects not eligible for other funding |
| Rio Grande Assn of CDs | San Luis Valley | Training teachers for including conservation education in school curriculum |
| Dolores | Montezuma/ San Miguel | Tamarisk control and native plant establishment along Mc Elmo creek |
| Double El | Elbert/ El Paso | Cost share conservation practices for soil erosion/ grazing mgt/noxious weeds |
| Douglas County | Douglas | Leafy spurge control along Bayou Gulch |
| Eagle | Eagle/ Garfield | Cost-share treatment of noxious weeds - focus on oxeye daisy/thistles |
| East Adams/ Deer Trail | Adams/ Arapahoe | Cost-share various conservation practices- focus on projects not otherwise likely to be completed |
| Flagler | Kit Carson | Cost-share various conservation practices- focus flow meter installation |
| Fremont | Fremont | Mapping/control/management of noxious weeds along Four Mile Creek |
| Gunnison | Gunnison/ Hinsdale/ Saguache | Absinth wormwood eradication in Ohio Creek watershed |
| High Plains/Prairie | Lincoln | Cost share various conservation practices /establish leafy spurge alliance |
| Kiowa | Elbert/ El Paso | Maintenance of watershed flood control dams |
| North Park | Jackson | Community healthy forest establishment beyond defensible space areas |
| Northeast Prowers | Prowers | Cost-share for grazing land improvement - focus on non-EQIP eligible projects |
| Prowers | Prowers | Rangeland fence repair and installation - focus on maintaining CRP as range |
| Rio Grande | Rio Grande/ Mineral/ Hinsdale | Cost-share treatment of noxious weeds - focus on Black henbane, Hoary Cress, Pepperweed, Toadflax |
| San Juan | Archuleta/ Mineral/ Hinsdale | Cost share various conservation practices and provide two workshops - one on land stewardship and one on integrated pest management |
| San Miguel Basin | Montrose/ San Miguel | Eradication of sulphur cinquefoil in San Miguel county |
| Spanish Peaks-Purgatoire River | Las Animas | Treatment of newly discovered African Rue in Las Animas county |
| Turkey Creek | Pueblo | Establish weed control program for Pueblo County |
| Upper Huerfano | Huerfano | Cost share various conservation practices - target disadvantaged landowners |
| West Otero-Timpas | Crowley/ Otero | Tamarisk removal along Timpas creek |