Deadline: 15-Nov-2024
The Forest Service is inviting applications for the Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes.
This program supports high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or equivalent science-based restoration strategy.
This funding opportunity is for projects with on-the-ground outcomes across western states: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Territory of American Samoa, Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, Territory of Guam, Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Landscape Objectives may include one or more of the following:
- Reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfires;
- Improve fish and wildlife habitats, including habitats for threatened and endangered species;
- Maintain or improve water quality and watershed functions;
- Mitigate invasive species, insect infestation, and disease;
- Improve important forest ecosystems;
- Measure ecological and economic benefits including air quality and soil quality.
Funding Information
- State Caps and Minimum and Maximum Funding Levels Five proposals total may be put forward for consideration within each state, which includes all eligible entities therein. The minimum funding request per project for all applicants is $25,000 and the maximum is $300,000; all funding is subject to change based on the availability of funds for the fiscal year. No state will receive more than 15% of the total funds available to the West.
Priority Projects
- Priority will be given to project proposals that include any of the following bulleted prioritization factors
- Promote cross-boundary collaboration:
- By their proximity to other land ownerships; or
- By their inclusion of a combination of land ownerships, including tribal, State and local government, and private lands (such as, but not limited to, multiple private landowners; private and state landowners; state and federal landowners; state and local government; or state and Tribal landowners).
- Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale projects on NFS lands or lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior or a state that are carried out:
- Under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (16 U.S.C. 7303).
- In landscape areas designated for insect and disease treatments under section 602 of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591a).
- Under the Good Neighbor Authority (16 U.S.C. 2113a).
- Under the stewardship end result contracting and agreement authority (16 U.S.C. 6591c).
- Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale projects on State land.
- Coordinate with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs and appropriate state-level programs.
- Leverage funding from multiple entities.
- Promote cross-boundary collaboration:
Eligibility Criteria
- State and territorial forestry agencies (or an equivalent state agency), units of local government, federally recognized Indian Tribes, non-profit organizations (defined as a 501(c)(3)), Alaska Native Corporations, and universities are eligible to receive LSR funding.
- For-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.