HC RC&D Annual Tour 2005

High Country Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council

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High Country RC&D Annual Tour

High Country RC&D conducts a tour every year to show our sponsors and any other interested

people some of HC RC&D’s projects.

Our tours cover a wide range of projects, showing the diversity of the RC&D program. As the RC&D

travels to project sites, attendees get a detailed look at some of High Country RC&D’s activities.

Pictures and Summery from 2009 Annual Tour

The 2009 tour showcased improvements High Country RC&D has assisted in Custer County, Idaho. Tour participants traveled to the Challis City Skate Park for lunch organized by the Custer SWCD, a board meeting, and presentations. The first presentation was on

the Wildland Mitigation Project. The speakers were Fire Mitigation Specialists, Sarah Wheeler and Kevin Conran with the BLM. They try to educate, train, and create community action plans and programs that target land owners within the Wildland/Urban Interface locations. There are fire codes that cities can adopt to have some enforcement on the landowners responsibility

to clean up the landscape. Kevin explained the dangers of wildfires, and the high

cost that they are to the government programs. If cities and counties will take

action to help prevent the spread of wildfires, government funds can be used for

other important land protection programs.

Then, Custer's Soil water Conservation District gave a presentation on thier efforts this year with the programs, funds, and landowners.

Custer County Weed Superintendent, Logan Brower, spoke to us about the weed issues and accomplishments they have been working on. They have built a program using the high school and junior high students, landowners, and others to fight the battle against the noxious weeds in Custer County.

The next presentation was a question and answer period for the Mackay Mosquito Abatement District. Because the High Country RC&D Board is made up of Commissioners, Mayors, and other county elected officials, many great ideas and thought were brought to the table for this projects growth.

The final presentation was from the Veterans of Custer County

Memorial. High Country was able to help this group become

their own non-profit organization. Since that time they have

created books and PowerPoints of the veterans to sell. All of

their profits will go to the veterans memorial which has been

started in the city of Challis.

After lunch and the presentations the tour members were able

to view the challis city skate park. HC RC&D was able to help

with the grant writing assistance on this project. This skate

park has brought the community closer and enabled kids to

have a positive outlet for energy.

The last place that our tour members were able to visit was the start of the Veterans of Custer County Memorial and the Interpretive Center. Both of these bring so much history to Custer and show a great deal of patriotism.

Annual Tour 2009 left participants with a better vision of the range of projects RC&D can support and assist with and also a better education at the challenges that face the area and what can be done to meet these challenges. Thank you Custer County for allowing us to tour your projects this year.

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