The RESTORE Colorado Program (Restoration and Stewardship of Outdoor Resources and the Environment) employs a collaborative funding model to support large-scale habitat restoration and stewardship projects across public and private lands. The program is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and funded by NFWF, GOCO, the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, the Gates Family Foundation, OXY, Chevron, the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Colorado has long been a national leader in private land conservation with some of the country’s most impressive publicly owned and managed lands. However, piecing together funding for large-scale restoration projects can be challenging. By pooling funder resources, RESTORE provides a single grant application that can support larger, multi-benefit projects that enhance the resiliency of wildlife, ecosystems, and communities across the state. What’s more, funding from a combination of state, federal, and private sources allows for the most flexibility to help finish the work at hand.