• Roadside inventories
  Training sessions, roadsides inventory teams, database software and data input are funded by the LRTF to help counties identify and record data about roadside prairie remnants and prairie plantings.
   
• Gateway landscaping/Roadside plantings
  Gateway landscaping and roadside enhancement projects are some the LRTF’s most visible projects. You’ll find these projects along state, county and city roadways and at the entrance to many Iowa communities. Native grasses and wildflowers are the primary component of these plantings; the LRTF funds the purchase of native seed and plants.
   
• Research, demonstration and education
  Professionals and amateurs benefit from the research and demonstration projects and educational programs funded by the LRTF. Research projects study IRVM issues while demonstration plantings show aspects of IRVM.
   
  Seminars, conferences, and classroom instruction are some of the funded programs designed to educate the public about Iowa’s native plants and their use on roadways.
   
• Equipment
  Counties with designated roadside managers are eligible to apply for funding to purchase special equipment needed to establish, manage or harvest native roadsides and native roadside plantings.

For detailed information about project eligibility and funding limits, read our funding guidelines.

Who Can Apply

Project: I-35 prairie reconstruction research
Applicant: Dr. Tom Rosburg, Drake University

Project: "Stewards" education program
Applicant: Trees Forever