Enchanted Circle Priority Landscape

                  The Cimarron Watershed Alliance has somehow found itself in the middle of the forest and watershed restoration efforts within the ECPL, serving as the only collaborative forest and watershed restoration group on the Colfax County side. Other collaborative groups and entities exist, such as the Colfax SWCD, the county government, municipal governments, HOA’s, small newspapers, Rotary Club, irrigation ditches, clubs, and informal groups of ranchers. But at present none of these groups seem to have capacity, bandwidth, interest, skills, or social positioning to support the restoration work that is need in Colfax County. Providing the CWA with collaborative support funding seems to be the best way to increase the scale and scope of the forest and watershed restoration work that is desperately needed with the Colfax County portion of the ECPL.

 

                     This proposal is meant to maintain and augment the existing collaborative capacity within the Colfax County portion of the Enchanted Circle Priority Landscape. Funding for collaborative support will ensure cross-boundary coordination of wildfire risk reduction efforts, maximize our collective ability to leverage funding to achieve our collective treatment targets, and reinforce our shared agency and community objectives as we increase the pace and scale of work within this landscape