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A Benefit
for RiGHT.
Please
join us and fine artists from the San Luis Valley and across the Southwest in
support of our important conservation work.
Saturday August 16, 2008
6pm to 9pm
South Fork Community Center,
South Fork,
Colorado
Visit our
Keep the Rio Grande Grand! page for
more information and links to the artists' websites.
Colorado Water Conservation Board Awards $1.5 Million in Matching Funds
On March 19th, 2008, the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB)
voted unanimously to award $1.5 million from the state’s Water Supply Reserve
Account to the Rio Grande Initiative, to match the GOCO Legacy grant mentioned
below. Thanks to the support of the Rio Grande Basin Round Table, this award
represents a new level of collaboration between the conservation and water
interests in Colorado. These funds will help secure senior water rights along
the Rio Grande through conservation easements.
Land Trust Awarded $7.4
Million from Great Outdoors Colorado for the Rio Grande Initiative
In December the Rio Grande Headwaters Land Trust
(RiGHT) was awarded a $7.4 million dollar grant from Great Outdoors Colorado
(GOCO) for the Rio Grande Initiative. Governor Ritter announced the
awards and RiGHT is pleased to have received the largest grant in this very
competitive process.
The Initiative is a community
project in the San Luis Valley to protect the strategic and critical private
lands along the headwaters of the Rio Grande: Colorado's last major river
corridor.
Currently there are 10,700 acres of private land
protected with conservation easements along the Rio Grande out of an available
54,000 acres. Our work is urgent as this area is being hit hard with development
pressures.
Please join us in our efforts to protect the headwaters of
America's 4th longest river and Colorado's last major river that is relatively
intact and undeveloped.
To download the Rio Grande Initiative newsletters learn more
about the project go to Rio Grande
Initiative, under Programs.
Since 1999, RiGHT has been the only local land trust in Colorado's San Luis
Valley working to protect land and water throughout the San Luis Valley.
To date, RiGHT has protected 14 properties with conservation easements totaling
10,280 acres, sponsored and co-sponsored 20
workshops and tours and helped establish the coordinator for the San Luis Valley
Wetlands Focus Area Committee.
Check out our links to learn more about our important projects.
Thank You!
Thanks for all our great contributors over the years for
making our work possible!
The Time is RiGHT
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