More Funding for Iowa Trails from REAP

The Natural Resources Commission approved funding for twenty recreational trails projects across Iowa last week as part of the Resource Enhancement and Protection program (REAP). Forty six applications totaling $4.3 million in grant requests were submitted for consideration during the FY10 grant round for large, medium and small cities. Available funds totaled about $2.8 million, the same as last year, and was allotted to the top thirty grants recommended by Project Review and Selection Committee.   (For full disclosure, IBC Development Director, Janelle Rettig, is on the Natural Resource Commission, and voted to approve the selection committee’s recommendations.)