The Grand County Wildfire Council has money ready to go for private
\nlandowners and groups of landowners who want to do fire-mitigation projects on
\ntheir properties.<\/p>\n
In a Friday news release, the council highlighted
\nlandowners\u2019 opportunity to apply for cost-share funding to implement hazardous
\nfuels reduction projects outlined in local Community Wildfire Protection Plans.\n<\/p>\n
The program works by providing financial support, as well as
\ntechnical assistance, to individuals and communities looking to mitigate the risk
\nof wildfires. As such, money is available to assist with creating defensible
\nspace around homes or landscape-scale fuels reduction projects. <\/p>\n
The program provides funding through reimbursements to offset the costs of hiring a contractor to reduce hazardous fuels, and eligible applicants must be a home or property owner or renter living within Grand County, according to the council. <\/p>\n
The release says applicants who live in an extreme, very high
\nor high hazard community identified in their respective fire district\u2019s CWPP will
\nbe given priority with the funding, and reimbursements will be negotiated at
\ntime of application approval. <\/p>\n
The council can reimburse 50% up to $525 per acre treated, and
\nreimbursements will not exceed the actual cost of the project. <\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2018, we reimbursed homeowners $33,000 that leveraged
\nover $290,000 in actual and in-kind dollars toward wildfire mitigation in Grand
\nCounty,\u201d said Brad White, the council\u2019s mitigation subcommittee chairperson and
\nFire Chief at Grand Fire Protection District, in the release.<\/p>\n
For more, go to bewildfireready.org\/fuels-reduction-cost-share-program<\/a> The Grand County Wildfire Council has money ready to go for private landowners and groups of landowners who want to do fire-mitigation projects on their properties. In a Friday news release, the council highlighted landowners\u2019 opportunity to apply for cost-share funding to implement hazardous fuels reduction projects outlined in local Community Wildfire Protection Plans. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 10:43:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nor contact Capt. Adam Gosey at East Grand Fire at 970-726-5824 or agosey@eastgrandfire.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"