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Noxious Weed Grants and Financial Assistance

Have a 2025 Grant with the Noxious Weed Program?

Visit the Noxious Weed Program Annual Grant website to find information, including the required documents for Final Reporting.

The Colorado Noxious Weed Program operates on a combination of state and federal funding, which can fluctuate annually. It relies on the Colorado Noxious Weed Management Fund, but also actively pursues federal funding opportunities, such as grants from the U.S. Forest Service. The team is constantly seeking new grants to provide financial assistance to counties, municipalities, and other entities, enabling them to manage noxious weeds on both private and public lands across the state.

Noxious Weed Program Annual Grants

The Noxious Weed Management Fund was created in 2000 to support local weed management efforts.

  • While the fund once peaked at $700,000, a cut in 2025 reduced its total to $450,000. This makes partnerships and additional grants even more vital for statewide weed control.
  • The program's primary objectives are to:
    • Provide additional financial resources to entities engaged in cooperative efforts to eradicate and/or contain state-listed noxious weeds.
    • Produce measurable outcomes for noxious weed management across Colorado.
    • Assist new or underfunded weed management programs, particularly in regions where additional resources are needed.

Look for the 2026 Noxious Weed Fund grant announcement this fall!

Visit the Noxious Weed Annual Grants page

Noxious Weed Program Annual Grants with images or List A Noxious Weed species: Orange Hawkweed, Myrtle Spurge, Giant Reed, Purple Loosestrife, Knotweeds

Grants Additional Information

Noxious Weed Grants Webinar

All 2023 Noxious Weed grant recipients must watch this webinar and fill out the post-webinar questions as part of the 2023 grant process.

You can view the webinar on the right or on YouTube. Review the full agenda of the call. 

POGG1 Sample Document

Noxious Weed Webinar Questions

 

Boot Brush Kiosk Funding

Since 2018, CDA has offered scholarships to help cover the cost of building boot brush kiosks! This program has been a success and we are continuing it. Scholarships are awarded on a first-come-first-serve basis. Learn more about Boot Brush Kiosks.

Ready for reimbursement?
Submit the Final Report Form and include photos of your installed boot brush kiosk and proof of payments. Contact the Grants and Outreach Specialist with questions.

Boot Brush Kiosk scholarships available

Federal Grants

America's Ecosystem Restoration Initiative (AERI), formerly known as America the Beautiful Challenge (AtBC)

The America the Beautiful Challenge is a federal grant program, managed by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) in partnership with multiple federal agencies, that provides funding for large-scale, locally led ecosystem restoration projects. The grants aim to improve watershed health, enhance habitat connectivity, and increase community resilience. In 2022, the Colorado Department of Agriculture was awarded a $4 million grant through this program to support conservation and agricultural partnerships in five major watershed areas of the state.

Bipartisan Infrastructure Legislation Grant

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) is a federal statute that provides a massive, nationwide investment in America's infrastructure, including natural resources. This funding is distributed to states and local entities through a mix of formula-based allocations and competitive grants.


For Colorado, the law has delivered a significant amount of funding to address a wide range of issues. While a major portion of the funding is for traditional infrastructure like roads, bridges, and public transit, a substantial amount has been allocated to natural resource projects. Examples include:

  • Wildfire Resilience: Over $5.1 million was invested in fuels management projects in Colorado to reduce wildfire risk.
  • Water Infrastructure and Drought Resilience: The law has provided tens of millions of dollars to upgrade drinking and clean water infrastructure and support projects that improve the state's drought resilience.

The BIL's focus on ecosystem restoration, invasive species, and climate resilience provides numerous opportunities for Colorado to secure funding for its various natural resource management programs.

Disaster Supplemental Funding Grant

This funding is not a single grant, but rather a collection of different federal relief programs designed to assist in recovery.

A key way the Colorado Department of Agriculture and its producers receive this funding is through the USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). For instance, following wildfires or other natural disasters, the USDA makes financial and technical assistance available to help farmers and ranchers recover from losses. This can include:

  • Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP): Provides payments to producers who suffered crop or livestock losses due to qualifying disaster events.
  • Emergency Assistance for Livestock, Honeybees, and Farm-Raised Fish Program (ELAP): Compensates producers for feed and grazing losses.
  • Emergency Conservation Program (ECP): Assists landowners with the cost of removing debris and restoring fences.

Grants Awarded

The Noxious Weed Program funds multiple grant types, all focused on on-the-ground noxious weed management. Funding for these grants comes from two main sources.

The Noxious Weed Fund (NWF) consists of state general funds appropriated to the program to be spent statewide on high-priority noxious weed control projects. The U.S. Forest Service, State & Private Forestry Fund (SPF) consists of federal funds appropriated on an annual basis to the program to be spent on non-federal lands with vicinity to National Forest Service Lands. SPF funds are limited in nature and can be combined with state funds for applicable projects. Since 2015, the program has received $700,000 annually for the NWF, to pass through to local entities to support their noxious weed control efforts, and this is supplemented with approximately $40,000 in SPF funds.

In most years, a part of the Noxious Weed Fund is set aside to support weed mitigation and restoration projects made necessary by a disaster such as fire or flood. Occasionally these funds have been granted to emergency EDRR projects with an immediate need at a time outside the regular NWF/SPF grant cycle. 

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Other Funding Opportunities

There are several dedicated funds that annually solicit funding proposals related to weed management. Please check the following websites for additional information: