Project Grant 22DG11094200229

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 forest and other rural lands with fire prevention, prescribed burns, and fire suppression activities. This award will support the Preserve's efforts to control fires and develop new techniques for managing fire risk on non-federal lands through vegetation management and habitat work.