The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) awarded a $6,250,000 Project Grant to the American Forest Foundation (AFF) under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The grant, awarded on January 16, 2025, aims to expand markets and grow resilient family forests by empowering private landowners to participate in emerging environmental markets such as carbon offset and ecosystem services programs.
The grant will enable AFF to provide technical guidance, financial incentives, legal support, and partnership facilitation to advance climate-smart forestry, wildfire resilience, and sustainable timber production on private family forests across over 20 states. AFF will work with subrecipients including universities, state natural resource agencies, and conservation organizations to deliver these services. The funding will also support outreach and education to help underserved landowners access these private environmental markets.
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