: Grant Awards :

LB 701

The  High Plains Weed Management Association has received tremendous support on various levels through its sponsorships and grant awards.  In 2007, funding from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture Noxious Weed Control Program known as LB 701 awarded HPWMA $65,000 to address noxious weeds in Western Nebraska.  This project is designed to educate landowners on invasive control strategies, survey riparian wetlands for invasive populations and initiate control measures, in cooperation with landowners, in selected areas.  According to the Department of Agriculture's website, the Riparian Vegetation Management Grant Program was created in LB 701, the comprehensive water legislation signed into law in early 2007 by Governor Dave Heineman. The legislation authorizes $2 million annually for two years for the grant program.  This funding allowed HPWMA to partner with PRIDE Weed Management Association in the northern Panhandle with the educational insert called "Weed Watch" which was distributed to local newspapers, organizations, and landowners.  It also allowed projects to begin to take shape in the separate counties through chemical applications and other methods of control. 

HPWMA was recently awarded an additional $250,000 for its invasive species efforts from the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.  Please check out this news release to learn more!

Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund

In 2008, the Nebraska Environmental Trust Fund announced its grant recipients for the 2008 grant season, which included three separate awards to High Plains Weed Management Association for its work in the area of invasive species.  These grant awards, which included $14,100 for the Invasive Species Control Summit, $28,300 over three years for continued work on Nine Mile Creek, and $1.8 million over two years for the North Platte River Invasive Species Control Project.  The Nebraska Legislature created the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 1992.  This year, the Environmental Trust and the Nebraska Lottery are celebrating 15 years of partnership in making Nebraska a better place.  Using revenue from the Nebraska Lottery, the Trust has provided grants to 1,035 projects across the state.  Anyone can apply - citizens, conservation organizations, communities, businesses and individuals that want to protect Nebraska's natural habitat, improve water quality or quantity or find better ways to manage our waste.  Countless projects in the Nebraska Panhandle would not have been possible without support from the Trust, and from 1994 through 2007, $112,351,503 in grant awards was given statewide to complete local projects, including $15,131,586 for the Nebraska Panhandle.  The Nebraska Environmental Trust works to preserve, protect and restore our natural resources for future generations.  Please visit the Trust's website to learn more.

Pictured from left to right: Project Manager Dennis Beyer, Board President Jeff Schledewitz, Environmental Trust Executive Director Mark Brohman, Board Member Curtis Cloud, and Board Member Owen Walker at the 2008 Grant Award Seminar hosted at the North Platte NRD.

Grants :: Nine Mile Creek :: North Platte River :: Invasive Species Control Summit