LBNRD receives environmental trust grants

The Little Blue Natural Resources District has received confirmation that it will receive two grants from the Nebraska Environmental Trust in the 2018 awards, and will be a partner in a third grant award submitted by the Tri-Basin NRD. These projects are three of the 105 projects receiving a portion of the $18,301,819 in grant awards from the Trust.

The first is a $208,870 grant called “Puddles Under the Pivots” and is being administered with the Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. The project in its third year, is designed to restore historical wetlands but also provides funds for the establishment of grazing infrastructure on the wetlands with the landowners’ retaining the right to pass a center pivot over the enrolled acres. Grant funds will be leveraged with significant funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Wetland Reserve Easement Partnership (WREP) grant.

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