Annual Report

In 2024, RCCD continued to implement its Long-Range Plan, focusing on water, forestry, rangeland management, and soil health.

Since 2019, RCCD has participated in CDA’s STAR program. The program has included providing a comprehensive soil health evaluation on a field-by-field basis and helping ranchers by making recommendations on improvement strategies in concert with the local NRCS office. RCCD has worked with more than 20 ag producers over multiple years.

The pocket field guide on soil health developed by RCCD has been very popular, and the district must continue printing additional copies.

RCCD Soil Health Field Day was hosted on the Fish and Cross Ranch on September 26, 2024. This field day featured soil biology and on-farm soil amendments provided by the “The Ground Up” staff, the do’s and don’ts of rotational grazing with virtual fencing, and hands-on soil demonstrations.

The 2024 Annual Landowners and Local Working Group Meeting was held in Yampa, and was well attended.

RCCD continued to work with many partners and local boards of Routt County and the North Platte/White/Yampa Watershed Association.