CDA unveils grants dashboard, details grant rounds to help land managers tackle noxious weeds

CDA staff told attendees about new and upcoming funding tools intended to help counties, municipalities and landowners address noxious weeds.

"We have about 360 ish thousand dollars where we're going to be giving out up to $20,000 per entity to create cost-share programs," Patty York said, describing a Bipartisan Infrastructure round intended to pair forest-health treatments with follow-up noxious-weed work. York said the department also expects a direct-to-producer opportunity for agricultural commodity producers that could help pay treatment costs.

York demonstrated a new state grants dashboard that is live on CDA's website and displays projects, partnerships and funding uses for federal grants; she said 2026 Noxious Weed Management Fund grantees will be required to post data directly into the dashboard. CDA staff urged attendees to review the dashboard and offer feedback and noted other resources such as fact sheets, door-hangers, and a twice-monthly newsletter to help practitioners access grant and technical resources.