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Conservation district recounts wildfire, watershed and landowner work; residents raise alarm over proposed water-date changes
Summary
Lake County Conservation District and Central Colorado Conservancy described grants, forest-health projects and private‑land assistance; commissioners heard sustained concerns from landowners about potential changes to water-measurement or appropriation dates and the possible downstream effects on local water rights.
Representatives of the Lake County Conservation District (LCCD) and Central Colorado Conservancy (CCC) briefed commissioners on conservation projects, wildfire mitigation coordination and private‑land assistance, and discussed funding and federal partnership history.
Partnership and role: Wendy McDermott, executive director of Central Colorado Conservancy, explained the shared position model with LCCD and the prior cooperative agreement with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). NRCS funding initially supported a shared district manager position; congressional budgeting interruptions and later NRCS budget reductions ended that contract. The county provided $25,000 in FY2024 and another $25,000 in FY2025 to help sustain the shared staffing arrangement while the organizations…
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