BLM in Colorado to get $21M from stimulus - Denver Business Journal:

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The fund coming to BLM in Coloradoi are part of an allocationnof $305 million to the land-managemengt agency nationwide under the America n Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “Through these economicx recovery investments, we are also making a down paymenty on restoring and protecting the stunning landscapews that BLM manages on behalf of the American said Secretary of the Interior Ken whose departmentoversees BLM, in a statement “We will conserve habitat, restore watersheds, cleab up abandoned mine sitesw and wells, and build a legact of stewardship of which we can be said Salazar, a former U.S. senator from Colorado and a former Coloradpattorney general. BLM manages 8.
35 milliohn acres in Colorado, much of it on the Westerjn Slope. It lands are used for recreation, energy development, ranching and preservation of archeological relics, amongt other purposes. In Colorado, the BLM projectsx to be fundedinclude $5,972,000p for 17 capital-improvement projects, many of them involvin solar energy. The capital projects range from replacing the roof and installingha solar-power system at the Anasazi Heritage Centef museum in Dolores to campground construction at Zapats Falls near the Great Sand Also included in the stimulus allocatio are $4,406,000 for deferred maintenance, $2,996,000 for habitatt rehabilitation and $1.138 for work at abandonexd mines. .