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Water Supply Reserve Account - Grant Application Form <br />Fonn Revised May 2007 <br />deploys over 60 professional Project Management, Science, Public Funding Legal, and Land Protection staff in <br />developing and delivering its projects. Individuals performing in these functions are skilled in working collaboratively <br />with partners to deliver conservation success. <br />TNC has been working in the Republican River basin since 1999, when it acquired the approxiinately, 1=1, 000-acre Fox <br />Ranch on the Arickaree River. Today the Fox is managed to conserve grassland and water related resources and is <br />operated as a cattle ranch in conjunction with a local ranching family. The upland prairies on the ranch are important <br />for conservation, but it was the live reach of the Arickaree River and the associated riparian communities that were and <br />continue to be the most important conservation resources on the property. For this reason, the Colorado Division of <br />Wildlife provided significant financial resources for the acquisition to match funds. from the North American Wetlands <br />Conservation Act The Nature Conservancy vohrntarily pays the annual property taxes on the ranch and is initiating a <br />public turkey hunting program in 2008. <br />If the Contracting Entity- is different then the Applicant (Project Sponsor or Owner) please describe the <br />Contracting Entity here. <br />There are two contracting entities that will be involved in this project They are a well tester and an appraiser. They <br />will be involved in a minor° element of the work condzrcted under this application. ?SI)eciftcally, the well tester will <br />assess the viability of two wells with valid permits that are currently, not in operation. Based on the findings of the <br />tester, the appraiser will determine the value of the permits. An evaluation will then be made of whether additional <br />funds outside the scope of this grant will be sought to incentiviae the retirement of those wells. The entities that we <br />anticipate contracting with are: <br />Well tester: Ouality Irrigation, Yuma, CO <br />Appraiser: Yuma County Abstract Company Crrrt Fix, Wray, CO <br />Additional details on this part of the proposal are described in later sections of this application <br />Part B. - Description of the Water Activity - Please Refer to Criteria and Guidance Document for Eligibly Requirements <br />Naive ofivater activity/project: <br />Arickaree River Well Retirement Program