Project Grant 23DG11060200026

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...

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District will implement hazardous fuels reduction, defensible space creation, ecological improvements, and habitat restoration on 100 to 200 acres of land along the Mount Rose Corridor in Nevada. Funded activities under the $801,838 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management include removing dead brush and timber, thinning live brush and timber, eliminating ladder fuels, and restoring aspen stands. Additional work...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), provides $629,326 to study the water quality impacts of prescribed fire in western US conifer forests. The project aims to address uncertainties around how prescribed fire usage for forest restoration, in response to increasing wildfire size and severity due to climate change, may affect water quality. The study will examine...

This $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 supports the Lomakatsi Restoration Project (LRP) and its partners in implementing strategic forest health and wildfire fuels reduction treatments on at least 500 acres of private land adjacent to communities. The goal is to minimize wildfire pathways in the wildland-urban interface and protect service trust resources, while also creating 15 full-time equivalent positions,...

This $315,690 cooperative agreement from the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region funds research through the Pennsylvania State University on prescribed fire programs and policies impacting private land burning. Under the Joint Fire Science Program, the research will assess landowner knowledge, demand, and willingness to pay for prescribed fire services through an interdisciplinary framework combining survey methods, case studies, and stated preference economic techniques. Products will...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region awarded $7.37 million through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720) to the Lake County Resource Conservation District on August 15, 2025. The project, "Fire in Hand, Healing Lands," will implement fuel reduction and fire prevention activities across Lake County, California through December 31, 2029, with a primary focus on prescribed burning and...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $627,110 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.228 - BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities) to Oregon State University to restore sagebrush rangelands dominated by invasive annual grasses. The project will use a combination of precision conservation tools and dormant season grazing regimens to generate science-based data to better manage fine fuels on sagebrush rangelands. Key objectives...

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...