This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) provides $1,024,495.00 to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to support landscape-scale forest restoration on priority lands in Minnesota and Wisconsin. The three-year project, with a performance period from September 18, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will focus on activities such as developing genetically improved tree seeds and seedlings, producing...
This $1,510,212 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service's State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) is supporting a comprehensive initiative to enhance wildfire prevention, control, and management across non-federal forests and rural lands in the state of Minnesota. The award, granted on January 17, 2025, will enable the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to carry out a range of activities aimed...
This $576,818 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698) supports the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in managing and mitigating wildfire risks across non-federal forest and rural lands in Minnesota. The grant will fund activities such as hazardous fuels reduction, community wildfire protection planning, fire prevention education, incident management...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $590,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for the "LANDSCAPE SCALE RESTORATION PROTECTING WORKING FORESTLANDS IN THE DRIFTLESS AREA FOR MULTIPLE BENEFITS TROUT TURKEY TIMBER" project. The grant, awarded on August 12, 2024, will support a range of forest management and conservation activities across Minnesota's non-federal lands,...
This $1,000,000 Project Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698), will support the development and implementation of a Minnesota Prescribed Fire Planning and Reporting Tool. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the prime awardee, will use the funding over the period of Sep 21, 2023 to Jun 30, 2028 to enhance forest resilience, fire prevention education, and the transfer of new fire management...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received a $450,000 project grant award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.698). The grant will support the "WILDFIRE RISK REDUCTION: ENHANCING THE NORTHEAST WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENT - INCORPORATING SMALL-SCALES FIRES" project from June 2022 through December 2023. The project aims to enhance wildfire risk assessment in the...
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources received a $1.493 million project grant award from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.698). The funding will support wildland fire prevention, control, and prescribed use services on non-federal forest and rural lands in Minnesota through September 2025. Specifically, the grant will assist the state in controlling rural fires and...
The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $404,000 Project Grant to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.698). The grant will fund the Great Lakes Forest Fire Coordination Projects from September 22, 2021 through December 31, 2024. The projects aim to assist in controlling rural and non-federal forest fires in Minnesota through December 2024. This includes prevention,...
The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $350,000 Project Grant to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance federal grant program (CFDA 10.698). The grant will fund wildfire risk reduction activities in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota from July 2021 through September 2025. Specifically, the funding will support efforts to re-engage local communities in preventing, controlling, and suppressing rural fires...
This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service provides $198,980.00 in funding to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The funding supports the development of the Fire Environment Mapping System, a critical initiative focused on wildfire prevention, control, and management across non-federal forest and rural lands in Minnesota....