LCCD has developed a cost-share program for farmers and ranchers to control noxious weeds.
Lander County Conservation District
Lander County, Nevada
 

Noxious Weed Control Cost Share Program
General Information
  Who is eligible?
 
  • All land owners with noxious weeds and agriculture producers with operations in Lander County utilizing private land; owned or leased.
  What is available?
 
  • Cash grants up to $1,000. Lander County Conservation District (LCCD) will refund up to 50% of the purchase price, up to $1,000, for herbicide used in the control of any of the noxious weed species listed below.
Click on the links below to view each noxious weed.
Russian Knapweed Squarrose Knapweed
Spotted Knapweed Diffuse Knapweed
Tall Whitetop Hoary cress (whitetop)
Tamerisk (salt cedar) Musk thistle
Scotch thistle Canada Thistle
 
  • 50% discount on the use of the pickup mount slide-in sprayer owned by LCCD when used for spraying any of the weed species listed above (regular fee is $50 per day).
  When will this happen?
 
  • May 1 through November 30, 2007.
  • Application deadline for cost-share: November 1, 2007.
  • Cost-share applications will be processed on a first-come, first-serve basis.
  • Payment will be made immediately upon submission of receipts by the participant.
  • Sprayer can be reserved at anytime for use beginning May 1, 2007.
  Where?
 
  • Herbicides and sprayer must be used only in Lander County, Nevada for control of any of the specified weed species.
Other Information
  Cost Share Report
 
  • Report on application and estimated kill are required by November 30, 2007.
  Sprayer Use
 
  • Use of the sprayer other than for spraying the weeds listed above is not subject to the 50% discount.
  • $100 refundable deposit required.
  • Complete Use Agreement prior to taking equipment from LCCD location. (Agreement available upon request at LCCD  office).
  • The sprayer will be picked up and returned to the LCCD office by the user, unless prior arrangements have been made.
  • Call for availability on sprayer.
    •   Application
     
    • Pickup, complete and return the application for a cost share grant and/or sprayer use at the Lander County Conservation District, 815 North 2nd Street, Battle Mountain, Nevada 89820. Sprayer reservation for this program can be made beginning May 1, 2007.
      Questions
     
    • Contact Lesley Bunch, LCCD District Clerk or Gerrit Bakerl, LCCD Chairman at (775) 635-5565, or by e-mailing us.
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    updated: 04/16/07