PRBE receives grant from Nebraska Environmental Trust

May 18, 2018

The Scottsbluff Star-Herald :

Platte River Basin Environments, Inc. recently announced that it will receive $120,000 from the Nebraska Environmental Trust for the “North Platte River Valley Habitat Restoration and Enhancement Partnership II” project. The Trust Board announced funding for the project at its meeting on April 5 in Lincoln. The project is one of the 105 projects receiving $18,301,819 in grant awards from the Nebraska Environmental Trust this year. Of these, 66 were new applications and 39 are carry-over projects.[…]By implementing habitat restoration activities along the North Platte River and tributaries within the watershed, PRBE will work with landowners to restore, enhance, and manage the wetland and associated upland habitat values on lands within the entire watershed and will find win-win solutions for integrating wildlife habitat into land management operations.