Deadline: 5-May-22
The Sustain Our Great Lakes (SOGL) program is soliciting proposals in 2022 under a new special initiative to benefit fish, wildlife, habitat and water quality in the lower Great Lakes basin via stewardship and management of private woodlands.
Grants will support technical assistance for natural resource professionals and private woodland owners to accelerate the voluntary planning and implementation of effective land stewardship practices for woodlands and forests of 10 acres or more within the lower Great Lakes region.
The program is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) in partnership with the USDA Forest Service.
Strategies
Projects should seek to implement one or more of the following strategies:
- Increase forestry technical assistance capacity in the lower Great Lakes region through the hiring of staff or contractors who will work with landowners to develop and implement forest management plans, multi-resource management plans, or practice plans and assist with implementation of forest restoration and management treatments .
- Provide technical, planning and implementation assistance for forest landowners to protect, maintain, enhance, and preserve habitat for wildlife and fish species, including threatened and endangered species; and/or to achieve water quality and watershed health improvements, including efforts to improve forest health and resilience and restore riparian forests.
- Enhance collaborative and outreach strategic and technical assistance to increase the number of private landowners and/or producers engaged in woodland restoration and stewardship practices.
- Implement innovative methods to engage private landowners, potentially including smaller acreage landowners, expand on-the-ground restoration and stewardship activities on private lands, and to identify and better understand landowner motivations and barriers to sustainable woodland management.
- Feature areas demonstrate that complement or accelerate technical assistance by bothachieving on-the-ground accomplishments for a specific area and providing sites for conservation education and technology transfer particularly for the forest landowner audience.
- Support the development and implementation of agroforestry practices such as alley cropping, shelterbelts, riparian forest buffers, and windbreaks that provide nutritional, environmental, educational, and other benefits.
Address barriers to landowner participation in forestry and conservation programs:
- historically underserved landowners and/or landowners that have not previously participated in programs are encouraged.
Funding Information
- Approximately $600,000 is expected to be available for grant awards in 2022. Individual grant awards will range from $150,000 to $350,000 and applicants should request no more or no less than this funding range in the proposal.
- Anticipated completion funded time for projects will typically be two or three years following finalization of a grant agreement.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include non-profit 501(c) organizations, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, Tribal governments and organizations, and educational institutions.
- Ineligible applicants include federal government agencies, unincorporated individuals, and private for-profit businesses.
For more information, please visit National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).
For more information, visit https://www.nfwf.org/programs/sustain-our-great-lakes-program/lower-great-lakes-forestry-technical-assistance-2022-request-proposals