The Butte County Fire Safe Council has been awarded a $2,745,672 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The funding will support the Council's efforts to provide wildland-urban wildfire hazard mitigation education and outreach in California. This includes developing and updating community wildfire protection plans, conducting wildfire risk assessments, reducing hazardous fuels, establishing defensible spaces, and improving community wildfire response capabilities. The grant has a performance period from December 30, 2024 to July 30, 2029. Additionally, the Butte County Fire Safe Council has received past federal funding through the Forest Service's Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreement Authority program and Landscape Scale Restoration project to support similar forest health and habitat protection efforts in the Butte Creek Magalia area and Forbestown Ridge.
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