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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Colfax County)
Date November 1, 2010, 6:24 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Canadian River Riparian Area Restoration Project Agent collaborated with two different agencies to provide programming for Colfax 4-H youth on riparian areas, and the restoration of them. The other collaborating agencies were National Resource Conservation Service, and the Canadian River Riparian Area Restoration Project Group. This project was originally to have the 4-H youth help plant new trees and vegetation in the target riparian areas, and it was rescheduled about 4 times because of mostly weather related issues, we had lots of snow this winter and mud. So I think we lost some of our original following as far as the 4-H goes. The activity occurred on a weekday so we were lucky that it fell on one of the schools spring breaks and we were able to have 6 youth there from 4-H. On the day of the event it was determined that the tractor we had could not cross the river as the runoff was too high. We had an educational component where the specialist from NRCS talked to the kids about riparian areas are and why they are important and what we would be trying to accomplish in this project. Then we went about planting about 50 to 100 trees and shrubs with a tractor and an auger and the kids would backfill the holes.