The USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $283,568 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program (CFDA 10.202) formula grant to the Cal Poly Corporation at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, CA. The grant will support forestry research and education across a wide range of areas from Oct 1, 2024 to Sep 30, 2026. Continuing projects include research on hydrologic and vegetation response of montane meadow restoration, and...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $283,568 Formula Grant under the McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program (CFDA 10.202) to the Cal Poly Humboldt Sponsored Programs Foundation (HSU Foundation). The 2-year grant, effective October 1, 2024, will fund six research projects at Cal Poly Humboldt, including assessments of forest management strategies, evaluations of tree responses to wildfire and drought, analysis of climate...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded a $149,940 Project Grant to the CAL Poly Corporation under the Capacity Building for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture (CFDA 10.326) program. The goal of this 2-year project is to evaluate how novel regenerative organic horticultural practices affect soil health, pest/disease incidence, weed occurrence, and crop yield of common Central Coast vegetables. The research will be conducted in...
This federal Project Grant award, issued under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program of the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310), provides $800,000 to Michigan State University to comprehensively assess the impacts of emerging carbon programs and financial incentives on the wood product supply chain. The primary focus is on understanding how these carbon initiatives could affect the wood products industries and carbon sequestration efforts. The...
This federal Project Grant award of $6,250,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) aims to advance restoration and resilience of California's private non-industrial forestlands. The award, effective January 13, 2025 through December 31, 2028, will support the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) in providing cost-sharing, technical assistance, outreach, and...
The Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture awarded Oregon State University $649,333 under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative competitive grants program (CFDA 10.310) from June 2023 through May 2026. The Project Grant funding will support research to develop robust and computationally efficient methods for calibrating process-based, individual tree growth models using high resolution remote sensing data. Specifically, the university will establish...
The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley has been awarded a $646,167 Project Grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.310 Agriculture and Food Research Initiative) to study methods for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector through the use of carbon markets. The first phase of the project involves developing an economic modeling framework to evaluate which emissions mitigation pathways, such as soil...
This federal Project Grant award of $412,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) supports the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) in promoting stewardship of non-industrial private forest lands in California. The award, which runs from January 16, 2025 to January 9, 2029, will fund a range of forest management, conservation, and restoration activities across California's non-federal...
This $742,643 federal Project Grant was awarded on September 1, 2024 by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program (CFDA 10.310). The grant supports a research project by Appalachian State University to investigate how soil communities mediate the impacts of compost amendments on soil carbon storage in rangelands across California. The key research activities include: 1) a spatial survey of soil community...
This federal Project Grant award, valued at $625,000.00, was provided by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The grant was awarded to American Forests, a non-profit organization specializing in environmental conservation and forest restoration services, on January 17, 2025. The funding supports American Forests' efforts to implement climate mitigation and forest resilience...