Project Grant 23DG11094200111

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. 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 County of Lake, Minnesota was awarded $225,000 under the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program (CFDA 10.697), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, with an award date of September 16, 2025, and completion deadline of March 1, 2027. The grant funds hazardous fuel removal and reduction services on up to 100 acres of private land located within the wildland-urban interface (WUI) near or adjacent to the Superior National Forest. These fuel...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The funding will support climate mitigation and forest resilience practices for non-industrial private forest landowners in the Stoney Brook Watershed located in Minnesota. The grant aims to increase climate change adaptation, support forest health, and facilitate market access...

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...

This $388,417 Project Grant award from the U.S. Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) supports wildfire risk reduction and ecosystem restoration efforts in Wisconsin. The primary awardee, The Nature Conservancy, will collaborate with local partners like the Ice Age Trail Alliance and Wisconsin Prescribed Fire Council to conduct prescribed burns, implement hazardous fuels reduction, and provide landowner education and outreach...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the Geographic Programs - Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (CFDA 66.469) provides $191,320.00 to the Lake County Soil and Water Conservation District (LCSWCD) in Minnesota to conduct feasibility studies and design plans for restoration projects on the Beaver and Baptism Rivers. The goal is to address significant erosion and habitat degradation in these Minnesota Lake Superior North Shore streams that provide...

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 Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region awarded a $300,000 Project Grant to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) to support wildfire risk reduction efforts from July 23, 2021 through December 31, 2024. Specifically, the grant funding will support fuel break enhancement and fuel reduction activities in the Peninsula State Forest area of Michigan. The work will include...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded a $550,000 Project Grant to The Sierra Fund, a non-profit organization, under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The grant will fund a collaborative effort to scale up stream and meadow restoration work in three counties in the Sierra Nevada region. Specifically, the project aims to reduce wildfire fuels and use the resulting slash to increase water storage...