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Participants

There are many individuals, organizations, and agencies that have played an integral part in the DRRP’s progress towards its shared goals.  These include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Bird Conservancy of the Rockies
  • Bureau of Land Management: Tres Rios, Grand Junction, Uncompahgre and Moab Field Offices
  • Bureau of Reclamation
  • Colorado Department of Agriculture
  • Colorado Parks and Wildlife
  • Colorado State University
  • Counties of: Dolores, San Miguel, Montrose, Mesa, Colorado; Grand County, Utah
  • Department of Energy
  • Dolores River Dialogue
  • Tamarisk Action Group
  • Dolores Water Conservancy
  • Four Corners School/Canyon Country Youth Corps
  • Gateway Canyons Resort
  • Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • Private land owners & citizen volunteers
  • Southeast Utah Riparian Partnership
  • Southwest Conservation Corps
  • RiversEdge West (formerly Tamarisk Coalition)
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  • Partners for Fish and Wildlife
  • University of Utah – Rio Mesa Center
  • Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado
  • Walton Family Foundation
  • Western Colorado Conservation Corps
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Budget

To date, the DRRP has invested over $9 million in the Dolores River and communities in and near the watershed. These investments have supported a variety of activities (e.g. restoration work, training & educational events, important science and research) that have created hundreds of jobs for young people and local contractors. 

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Sources of Funding

•    Bureau of Land Management
•    Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
•    Colorado Parks and Wildlife
•    Colorado Healthy Rivers Fund
•    Colorado River Water Conservation District
•    Colorado State Forest Service
•    Colorado Water Conservation Board
•    Commission for Environmental Cooperation
•    David & Lucile Packard Foundation
•    El Pomar Foundation
•    Hendricks Charitable Foundation
•    National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
•    National Resource Conservation Service
•    National Wild Turkey Federation
•    North American Partnership for Environmental Community Action
•    Packard Foundation
•    Partners for Fish and Wildlife
•    Utah Watershed Restoration Initiative
•    Walton Family Foundation

Continue reading about the DRRP here.