Conservation Innovation Grants Available for Projects in Colorado
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By Anonymous  The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has made available up to $800,000 for projects in Colorado through Conservation Innovation Grants in fiscal year 2007.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 20--Colorado increased land set aside in conservation easements more than 11 percent in 2005, bringing the state total to nearly 1.8 million acres, according to a group that wants to more than double that number in the next decade.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jan. 31--A $1 million study of alternative irrigation methods and strategies by Parker and Colorado State University could benefit the Arkansas River basin as well as the South Platte.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Jun. 24--Greeley and Weld County received several million dollars this year from special funding requests by U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, R-Colo.
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By Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 18--There's been a lot of talk about creating a regional transportation authority in northern Colorado. But that may not be as possible as it once seemed.
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By Mary Gail Hare, The Baltimore Sun  Sep. 6--A nonprofit group seeking to create a heritage trail network along a 40-mile stretch of the Susquehanna River in Harford and Cecil counties has received a federal grant intended to help get the project started.
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By Joe Orso, La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Mar. 8--Great Rivers United Way will give out $50,000 in venture grants to nonprofit health and human service agencies in the area, officials said Wednesday.
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By The Lima News, Ohio  Dec. 8--Volunteer fire departments in Allen, Hancock, Hardin, Logan and Shelby counties received grants from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to purchase wild land personal protective equipment.  The grants go to communities with fewer than 10,000 people.
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By Hazlehurst, John  Fort Collins entrepreneur Aaron Million thinks that he has found a way to supply Colorado Springs, and much of the Front Range, with enough water to supply the need for the next century.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Dec. 11--A federal grant will revamp off-road trails at Finger Lakes State Park to keep riders out of a polluted stream on the land.
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By BRYAN CORBIN, Courier & Press Statehouse bureau (317) 631-7405 or corbinb@courierpress.com  Planting new hardwood trees to restore forestland and link disconnected nature preserves in Southwestern Indiana will be funded through a donation announced Tuesday.
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The Department of Water Resources, Division of Planning and Local  Assistance, has released its 2007 Proposal Solicitation Package seeking  projects to share $10 million in CALFED grants.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Jun. 4--AURORA -- Aurora is moving ahead with its $750 million plan to reuse return flows and provide enough additional water to support its needs well into the next two decades.
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development administers the program that encourages companies to donate patents to promote innovation that can benefit the environment.
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By Wayne Heilman, The Gazette, Colorado Springs, Colo.  Sep. 9--Fewer investors are pumping money into Colorado technology  startup firms at the earliest stages, a principal with a Boulder venture  capital fund said Friday.
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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has awarded the Vanderburgh County Soil and Water Conservation District a $30,000 Lake and River Enhancement grant for conservation and water quality enhancement projects.
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Biologists, smarting from research showing that they may have been protecting the wrong fish for decades, are regrouping in their efforts to restore a rare type of trout to Colorado waters.