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Grants

Parks-Recreation-Open Spaces

 

Note: the following is an outline of more popular grant programs.  It is not comprehensive.

 

Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP):
City Parks and Open Space

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Agency Sponsoring Program:  Iowa Department of Natural Resources

 

Intent of Program: Provide funding to Iowa’s communities for projects related to enhancing or creating recreational area as well as protecting natural resources.

Resource Enhancement and Protection Program (REAP): County Conservation

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

 

Intent of Program: Provide funding to Iowa’s counties for projects that protect or enhance Iowa’s natural resources

Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)

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Agency Sponsoring Program: U.S. National Park Service, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

 

Intent of Program: Provide financial assistance to cities and county conservation boards for acquisition and/or development of land for outdoor recreation. Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Observation and sight-seeing facilities; including hiking, biking, equestrian, cycle, snowmobile and nature trails
  • Picnic facilities, including open shelters
  • Camping facilities
  • Swimming facilities, including beaches, pools, bathhouses and related equipment
  • Winter sports facilities, including ski runs/lifts, outdoor skating rinks, tobogganing and sliding slopes, warming huts, etc.
  • Playground equipment and outdoor ports facilities such as ball fields and game courts, golf courses
  • Sport shooting areas for skeet, trap, rifle, pistol and archery
  • Lake and pond construction for boating, fishing and aesthetic purposes
  • Landscaping and plantings for wildlife food and cover
  • Renovation or redevelopment of existing facilities which have deteriorated or become outdated
  • Support facilities including roads, parking, signs, walkways, utility systems, lighting, restrooms, concession buildings, trailer dumps, fences, etc.

Transportation Enhancements

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Transportation, Region XII Council of Governments

 

Intent of Program: To fund enhancement or preservation activities of transportation related projects. Activities fall into the following categories:

  • Trails and bikeways
  • Historic preservation, historic restoration, and archaeological
  • Scenic and natural resources

Federal Recreation Trails Fund

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Transportation

 

Intent of Program: To provide and maintain motorized and non-motorized recreational trails and trail-related projects.

Statewide Recreational Trails Fund

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Transportation

 

Intent of Program: To fund public recreational trails.

Iowa’s Living Roadways

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Trees Forever

 

Intent of Program: To assist in completing landscape projects that use primarily native trees, grasses and wildflowers

Trees Forever and Alliant Energy

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Trees Forever, Alliant Energy

 

Intent of Program: To promote tree plantings to save energy and to protect and enhance the environment.

Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Plant trees around homes for energy efficiency Beautify parks, schools, city streets, churches and businesses
  • Replace storm-damaged or diseased trees or trees conflicting with utility lines

Trees Forever and Peoples Natural Gas

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Trees Forever, Peoples Natural Gas

 

Intent of Program: To assist communities in promoting tree plantings to save energy and to protect and improve the environment

Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Selecting species and locations for plantings
  • Volunteer coordination
  • Tree maintenance

IDOT/DNR State Tree Planting Program

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Transportation, Iowa Department of Natural Resources

 

Intent of Program: For roadside beautification of primary system corridors with woody-type plant materials

MidAmerican Energy Trees Please Program

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Agency Sponsoring Program: MidAmerican Energy Company

 

Intent of Program: To promote e

nergy conservation and reforestation in communities served by MidAmerican Energy through tree planting.

Living Roadway Trust Fund

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Agency Sponsoring Program: Iowa Department of Transportation

 

Intent of Program: To implement Integrated Vegetation Management programs (IRVM) on city, county or state rights-of-way or areas adjacent to traveled roadways.

 

Projects eligible for funding include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Roadside inventories
  • Plant materials
  • Planting and maintenance materials
  • Burn equipment, seeding equipment (not for tractors, trucks, or ATVs)
  • Harvesting equipment (not for tractors, trucks or ATVs)
  • Educational/informational materials on IRVM