Identify, prioritize, and implement activities that aim to restore habitat, stream reaches and mesic areas within affected areas of the East Troublesome Fire in Grand County, Colorado via restoration practices such as low-tech process-based restoration techniques, aerial mulching, channel stabilization, sediment basin treatments, floodplain roughening and debris removal. Project will regenerate three miles of stream reach habitat and mesic area ecology.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
RESTORE Colorado
Project Title: Restoring Riparian and Mesic Habitat in the East Troublesome Fire Scar (CO)
Organization:
Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District
Project ID:
2506.22.074192
Description:
Award Amount:
$300000.00
Location:
The project encompasses affected areas within and downstream of the East Troublesome Fire including federal, state, and private properties as well as the collection area of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project in Grand County, Colorado west of the Continental Divide.