Project Grant 19DG11420000203

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve will receive $300,000 through a Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service to conduct wildfire risk reduction activities under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program. From September 2022 through August 2026, the Preserve will perform fuel reduction and habitat restoration work in the Albany Pine Bush to control rural and wildland fires. The Cooperative Fire Assistance program aims to assist non-federal...

The Albany Pine Bush Preserve received a $300,000 project grant award from the Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region on August 21, 2021 to complete work by August 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) to support endangered species habitat restoration and fuel reduction efforts in the Pine Barrens of Albany, New York. Specifically, the funding will assist the Albany Pine Bush Preserve in...

The California Tahoe Conservancy will reduce hazardous fuels on 950 to 1,250 acres of high-priority wildland urban interface areas on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin through a $5.99 million cooperative agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. Focusing on three geographic regions, the Conservancy will treat Conservancy-owned parcels over one acre adjacent to communities to reduce catastrophic wildfire threats, protect...

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 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), awarded a $499,865 cooperative agreement to The Regents of the University of Colorado to conduct research on landscape-scale fuel reduction strategies for grassland ecosystems in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) of Boulder County, Colorado. The project aims to: Measure grassland fuel characteristics to develop a custom fuel model for the region Experimentally test mowing, grazing, and prescribed fire fuel...

The City of South Lake Tahoe will receive $911,120 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region to conduct hazardous fuel reduction activities. Under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program, the City will reduce fuels across approximately 149.82 acres of city-owned properties. This will decrease wildfire severity, improve defensible space, and enhance forest ecosystem health near critical infrastructure like the airport, schools, and...

This $1,450,000 Project Grant award by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service supports the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697). The award will fund hazardous fuel reduction treatments on 78.8 acres of private and municipal property within the Village of Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Key activities include reducing overstory tree density, removing hazardous and diseased trees, and mitigating surface and ladder fuels to create defensible space around...

The California Tahoe Conservancy and USDA Forest Service will implement a coordinated hazardous fuels reduction strategy in community forests on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin through a $4.3 million cooperative agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region. Under the six-year award beginning August 2022 through the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act program (CFDA 15.235), the awardees will reduce hazardous fuels on 650-850 acres of small, forested...

The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley have received a $451,400 federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) to investigate long-term fuel reduction and forest management strategies in the northern Sierra Nevada region of California. Through this 4-year award, the researchers will study patterns of fuel accumulation, vegetation change, and potential fire behavior over time across four different forest...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $580,800 Cooperative Agreement to the Columbia Land Trust under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The purpose of this 5-year grant is to address increased wildfire risk in dry eastside forest landscapes in Washington by reducing ladder fuels, promoting ponderosa pine forest structure, and improving snag recruitment on 264 acres of conservation lands owned and managed by the Columbia...