Cooperative Agreement L16AC00219

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $432,366.68 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization in Oregon. The funding supports a 3-year project to implement important maintenance treatments on 120 acres of BLM lands adjacent to the city of Jacksonville, OR. Key activities include ecological thinning, lopping and scattering, hand pile burning, and prescribed under...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance (CFDA 15.674) program provides $300,000 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, to conduct fuels reduction and habitat restoration activities on 300 acres of land adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California. Key project activities include removing or thinning...

The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will reduce hazardous fuels on 210-620 acres and plan additional hazardous fuels removal on non-federal lands in Incline Village and Crystal Bay, Nevada to mitigate wildfire risk and improve forest health through a $1.8 million cooperative agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Funded by the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program, which supports community-based conservation partnerships, the district will...

The Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, will receive $1,000,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The funding will support continued maintenance of severely fire-prone areas within the Ashland All-Lands Forest Restoration project boundaries above Ashland, Oregon through activities such as...

This $129,910.30 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228), aims to reduce the abundance of exotic annual grasses within the Upper Rogue Oak Initiative project area in southwest Oregon. The Understory Initiative, a woman-owned non-profit organization, will collaborate with BLM to strategically apply prescribed burning and follow-up herbicide treatments to clear meadows of invasive...

The Scott River Watershed Council, a non-profit organization, received a $152,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The goal of this 4-year project is to make lands adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California more resilient to wildfire while concurrently restoring and conserving habitat for oak-associated...

The Lake County Umbrella Watershed Council was awarded a $665,423.64 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region to carry out the Summer Lake Wildfire Risk Reduction Project. The two-year project running from December 2021 through December 2023 aims to reduce wildfire risks in Oregon through forest management activities. The grant is funded through the USDA Forest Service's Schools and Roads Grants to States program (CFDA 10.665), which shares...

This $239,877 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Forest Service's State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697) will enable the Shawnee Resource Conservation (Shawnee RCD Area) non-profit organization to engage volunteer fire departments in cross-boundary prescribed burn efforts near the Shawnee National Forest in Illinois. The grant supports activities to reduce hazardous fuels and mitigate wildfire risks across public and private lands in the region. Key...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $7,809,240 Project Grant under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Program (CFDA 10.664) to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) on September 11, 2024. The grant will fund a range of forestry management and conservation activities across Oregon, including developing genetically improved tree seeds and seedlings, producing and distributing tree seedlings for reforestation, undertaking landscape restoration initiatives, mitigating...

The Bureau of Land Management awarded a $121,927.20 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Southern Oregon Forest Restoration Collaborative (SOFRC), a woman-owned non-profit organization. The award, granted on March 13, 2024, will fund SOFRC to implement vegetation surveys across 6,798 acres of small diameter, risk reduction treatments and 803 acres of commercial harvest for habitat restoration on federal lands in Oregon....