NIOBRARA COUNCIL

Council-Funded Activities

280 North Main Street

P.O. Box 206

Valentine, Nebraska 69201

 

(402) 376-2793 voice, (402) 376-1331 fax

info@niobraracouncil.org

· Signage plan development for highway, attractions, and access areas (1999)

· Development of river use guidelines (1999)

· Law enforcement officer cost-shares (1999)

· Placement of portable toilets at river landings (1999)

· Valentine Rural High School "Niobrara Class" (1999)

· Norden Road project (1999)

· Spring river cleanup (2000-2006)

· River use video (2000)

· Resource education projects in four county high schools (2000)

· Insectaries for Rock and Brown counties (2001)

· Keya Paha County roads project (2001)

· U.S. Fish & Wildlife avian study (2001)

· Cherry, Keya Paha, and Rock County road repairs (2001)

· Laughing Water Creek Bridge improvements (2001)

· Water kits for science classes in four county high schools (2001)

· High school weed education program in Keya Paha County (2001)

· Establishment of Fire Learning Network (2002)

· Summer day camp for elementary students (2002-2003,2005)

· Weed management software for Rock and Brown counties (2002)

· Mesh trash bags for river cleanup (2002)

· Brewer Bridge landing fence (2002)

· Keya Paha County tree removal project (2002)

· Carns Bridge stabilization project (2002)

· Norden and Meadville Bridge repairs (2002)

· Funding for river bank car removal (2002)

· Emergency repairs to ice jammed Meadville Bridge (2003)

· Installation of permanent vault toilets at Berry and Brewer Bridge (2003)

· Smith Falls Outfitters' Landing repairs (2003)

· Keya Paha and Cherry County road repairs (2003)

· Four-county mutual aid trailer (2003)

· MNWAG Private Stewardship Grant (2003)

· Weed conference scholarship (2004)

· Coleman Creek culvert (2004)

· Weed software/digital camera for Cherry and Keya Paha counties (2004)

· Noxious weed control in four counties (2004)

· Berry Bridge toilet cement work repairs (2004)

· Berry Bridge Gauging Station cost-share (2004-2005)

· Development and production of "River Code of Ethics" (2004)

· Grant to NCDC Library (2005)

· Installation of permanent vault toilet at Stans' Landing (2005)

· NPS "Pretty Fun Day" Coupon project (2005)

· Trailer painting (2005)

· Grant to MNWAG (2005)

· Car-removal project (2005)

· Valentine and Springview/Bassett River Camps (2006)

· Spring highway and river cleanups (2006)

· Berry Bridge Gauging Station cost-share (2006)

· Signed memoranda of agreement for two additional conservation easements (2006)

· Niobrara Neighbors Meet and Greet (2006)

· Mesh river trash bag program (2007)

· Installation of permanent vault toilet at Meadville Park (2007)

· Spring River Cleanup (2007)

· Valentine and Downriver River Camps (2007)