The Longmont Conservation District serves 144 square miles of Boulder County, 126 square miles of Weld County and 20 square miles of Larimer County that was petitioned into the District.  There are 73,520 acres of irrigated cropland and 22,600 acres of non-irrigated cropland in the District with another 15,320 acres of range and pasture land.  The median size of the farms or ranches in Boulder County is 30 acres.  The culture of the Longmont Conservation District has changed from an extensive agricultural community to an increase in urban and small acreage ownership. 

The District Supervisors have identified three natural resource priorities and goals.  The number one priority is Water Quality and Quantity.  Our goals are to provide information and promote Nitrogen management and reduced input agriculture, promote better irrigation water management, and provide education for youth and water users on water resource conservation.  The next priority is Integrated Pest Management.  Our goals are to provide landowners education on a variety of controls for noxious weeds, eradicate Mediterranean Sage in Boulder County by 2015, and provide cost-share to encourage landowners to control the weeds in fence-rows and along irrigation ditches on their property.  The other priority is Land Use.  Our goals are to educate youth on the importance of agriculture, educate small landowners on conservation issues such as grazing and erosion control, and provide low cost seedling trees to landowners for erosion protection.