Project Grant 23DG11052012156

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service R5-Pacific Southwest Region awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). This funding will support CAL Fire's efforts to control rural fires, prevent, suppress, and conduct prescribed use of fires on non-federal forest and other rural lands in California. CAL Fire provides a wide range of fire management services to federal agencies through prime contracts, including fire prevention, suppression, debris removal, fuel reduction, and forestry management. The agency also manages telecommunications infrastructure and leases antenna sites to federal partners. This federal grant funding will enable CAL Fire to further its mission of advancing forest resource management and conservation in California through activities such as reforestation, urban forestry initiatives, hazardous fuel reduction, and fire capacity building for volunteer fire departments.