{"id":3763,"date":"2009-10-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhp-awarded-epa-wetland-program-grant\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:55:23","slug":"cnhp-awarded-epa-wetland-program-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2009\/10\/08\/cnhp-awarded-epa-wetland-program-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"CNHP awarded EPA Wetland Program Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7109\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_1447.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Colorado Wetlands\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_1447.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_1447-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nWe are thrilled to announce that CNHP has been awarded $550,832 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Region 8, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/wetlands\">Wetland Program<\/a> Development Grant Program. The award funds three projects that support EPA\u2019s Strategic Plan and contributes to <a href=\"http:\/\/cnhpblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/statewide-strategies-for-colorado.html\">Colorado\u2019s Wetlands Strategy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first project, <i><b>Tools for Colorado Wetlands: Essential Information for Identification, Assessment, and Conservation<\/b><\/i>, will develop a <b><span style=\"color: #274e13\">Colorado Wetland Field Guide<\/span><\/b> that will contain botanical descriptions of over 500 wetland plants as well as information on priority wildlife species and other wetland-dependent animals, wildlife and vegetation ecology, and rare and\/or sensitive plants. The Guide will serve as the ultimate resource to determine a wetland plant\u2019s identity, wetland indicator status, coefficient of conservation, rarity, and ecology. The project will also develop an easily accessible <b style=\"color: #274e13\">Colorado Wetland Website<\/b> that will provide a virtual \u201cone-stop shopping\u201d for wetland information in Colorado, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">Information on wetland ecosystems and their conservation status, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">a database to calculate the overall conservatism of species present in a wetland, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">reports on Colorado wetland and wetland assessment tools, and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">links to other wetland projects and programs<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7110\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Thelypodium-sag_ANWR.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" alt=\"Colorado Wetlands\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Thelypodium-sag_ANWR.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/Thelypodium-sag_ANWR-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe second project, <i><b>Setting Mitigation in the Watershed Context: Developing a Multi-tiered Approach to Improve Compensatory Mitigation<\/b><\/i> will be conducted in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biology.colostate.edu\/\">CSU\u2019s Department of Biology<\/a>. This project will develop protocols for improving compensatory mitigation decisions by placing them within a whole watershed context, considering both gross changes to the abundance of wetland types and the condition of existing wetlands. A pilot study area will include a key portion of the rapidly developing northern Front Range I-25 corridor. This project will create: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">A rational framework for developing wetland profiles throughout Colorado for mitigation purposes, <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">mapping and trend analysis of wetland cumulative impacts, along with characterization of current wetland condition within the pilot study area, and <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small\">a general framework for placing mitigation in the landscape context in Colorado.<\/span> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7111\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_0539.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Colorado Wetlands\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_0539.jpg 400w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/IMG_0539-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nThe third project, <i><b>Survey of Critical Wetlands and Riparian Areas in Teller County<\/b><\/i>, will build upon CNHP\u2019s effort to document and assess Colorado\u2019s rare and\/or imperiled plants, animals, and unique plant communities since 1992. This project, in partnership with Teller County and the Coalition for the Upper South Platte (CUSP), will perform a prioritized survey and conditional assessment of the County\u2019s wetlands, including geographically isolated wetlands. The survey will provide a proactive approach for land managers and decision makers in rapidly growing areas within the County.<\/p>\n<p><i>10\/28\/2009 Update: Here is the official press release from CSU.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are thrilled to announce that CNHP has been awarded $550,832 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3763","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-cnhp","8":"category-collaborations","9":"category-county-inventory","10":"category-wetlands","11":"entry","12":"override"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}