Deadline: 14-Jan-22
The Coastal Conservancy is pleased to announce its Wildfire Resilience Program Request for Proposals. The Wildfire Resilience Program supports local partners to develop and implement projects that improve ecological health of natural lands and reduce the risk of catastrophic fire.
The purpose of these grants is to restore the health and resilience of California forests, grasslands, and natural lands in a manner that reduces fire risk to communities. The Conservancy will fund a wide range of activities to plan, accelerate, and support implementation of land and vegetation management activities to reduce wildfire risk to communities. Grants will not fund home hardening. Projects must provide a public benefit.
The program will fund grants for:
- on-the-ground activities to restore the health and increase resilience of California forests, grasslands, and natural lands to wildfire; and
- planning and capacity building to increase wildfire resilience in California for projects from Marin County south to Ventura County.
Funding Information
The Conservancy has a total of $10 million for wildfire resilience implementation projects, $5 million of which is for the nine-county SF Bay Area. In addition, the Conservancy has about $7 million from the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program (RFFCP) to support capacity building projects from Marin County south to Ventura County, including the East Bay and Salinas Valley.
Eligible Projects
Grants for on-the-ground activities that will reduce the risks of wildland fires. Eligible projects could include:
- Shaded fuel breaks and other vegetation thinning
- Dead and diseased tree removal
- Use of beneficial fire to reduce risk
- Application of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to reduce fire risks
- Prescribed grazing
- Removal of high-fire risk invasive plants and restoration with native plants
- Equipment to support wildfire reduction work
- Chipping
- Other activities identified in fire risk management plans
- Grants for capacity-building in the RFFCP Region. These grants could support planning, project prioritization, capacity building, and demonstration projects that will accelerate implementation of wildfire resilience projects.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public Agencies
- Nonprofit organizations with 501(c)(3) status
- Federally-Recognized Indian Tribes
For more information, visit Coastal Conservancy.
For more information, visit https://scc.ca.gov/2021/12/03/rfp-for-wildfire-resilience-projects-announced/