Deadline: 15-Nov-2024
The Forest Service is seeking 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 each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.
As noted in the Landscape Scale Restoration Manual (FSM 3800), this competitive grant program supports “high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.” The project scale must be the most appropriate size based on the land ownerships and desired outcomes for the landscape, and may include single, multistate, or cross-regional projects.
Funding Information
- The maximum Federal funding for a multistate or cross-regional project is $600,000.
- The minimum Federal funding per project is $25,000.
Examples of Eligible Projects
- Water quality and watershed health improvement.
- Wildlife habitat improvement.
- Treatments and practices that address climate change vulnerabilities by implementing specific adaptation actions.
- Forest restoration and forest management practices that improve the ability of trees or forests to take up (sequester) and store carbon, while minimizing the risk of future large-scale disturbances.
- Wildfire fuels management projects.
- Demonstration projects that both achieve on-the-ground accomplishments for a specific area and also provide sites for conservation education and tech transfer.
- Community tree planting projects in communities with a population of less than 50,000.
- Strategic outreach efforts to land managers/owners facing threats from urban sprawl, invasive species, and wildfire, and complementary efforts to improve rural prosperity, along with on-theground outcomes.
- Cross-boundary fuels management projects that are adjacent to National Forest System lands.
- Integrated efforts to improve management of nonindustrial private forestlands supporting the relevant State Forest Action Plan.
- Survey, prioritization, and treatment to control invasive plants in a high-priority landscape.
- Reducing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface to protect high-value assets such as drinking water and community infrastructure.
- Prevention and preparedness projects in advance of known invasive pests, with on-the-ground outcomes.
- Restoration of forests following damaging events to promote desired future conditions.
- Special surveys and technical assistance for forest health issues that exceed the resources available through core Forest Health Program (FHP) funding. Applications must clearly show how and why the proposed activities complement the core FHP program in the State and must include on-the-ground outcomes.
- Activities that engage the public in forest health work to achieve on-the-ground outcomes.
Eligibility Criteria
- State forestry or an equivalent State agency, units of local government, federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and universities are eligible to submit applications.
- For-profit organizations are not eligible to submit applications under this competition.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.