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UCD News: Firewise Incentive Program Funding Available! Are you and your home prepared for a wildfire?  UCD staff is currently available to meet with you at your property to perform a Wildfire Hazard Home Assessment.  This FREE assessment will serve to identify the hazards on your property and outline the things you can do, short term and long term, to reduce your risk of a home ignition during a wildfire.  Need help getting the work done?  UCD's Firewise Incentive Program is designed to provide funding to landowners, on a reimbursement basis, to help accomplish the big tasks of creating and managing defensible space.  Applications for this program are due by August 10th or September 14^th of 2010.  For more information about UCD's Firewise Program, click here, call Underwood Conservation District at (509) 493-1936. Conservation Cost-Share Funding Available for Small Projects, New Deadlines: Do you have a conservation project in mind for your property?  Would it benefit water quality or wildlife habitat?  UCD is currently seeking landowners who wish to implement conservation projects to improve natural resources under their management.  Common projects include stream bank planting, reforestation, noxious weed removal, livestock exclusion from streams, animal waste composting facilities, mud management around barns, hedgerow and windbreak plantings. Many other projects are eligible as well; call to discuss your project and its potential conservation benefits. Please ask to speak with Adrianne at (509) 493-1936 to request an application. Click here to download the flyer for UCD’s Cost-Share Program.  Applications are due August 20^th, 2010 or February 4^th, 2011 by 4:00pm. Little Wind River Community Habitat Restoration project Click here for the Design/Engineering Request for Proposals/Qualifications and additional documents about the project. Practical Tools for Forest Landowners  Find information and links to the presentations from this series here. We hope this site will help you become more familiar with the district, its programs, and the people involved. Click on the links to the left to explore. Click here for public documents.