Grant activities will include: 1) develop, conduct research on, transfer, promote, and monitor restoration-based hazardous fuel reduction treatments to reduce the risk of severe wildfires to…

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R3-Southwestern Region awarded the Board of Regents of Nevada System of Higher Education (operating as University of Nevada, Reno's Sponsored Projects Division) $1.4 million on August 4, 2026, under the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention program (CFDA 10.694) to develop, conduct research on, transfer, promote, and monitor restoration-based hazardous fuel reduction treatments across the Interior West. The grant runs through June 30, 2028, with place of performance in Nevada.

The recipient will synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research to implement landscape-scale restoration-based hazardous fuel reduction treatments using modern adaptive management frameworks. Work includes translating and transferring scientific and interdisciplinary knowledge about hazardous fuel reduction treatments to affected entities, assisting them with designing adaptive management approaches including monitoring protocols for wildfire risk reduction, and delivering peer-reviewed annual reports. The program's scope targets reducing severe wildfire risk to vulnerable communities and improving the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems.

Grant activities will include: 1) develop, conduct research on, transfer, promote, and monitor restoration-based hazardous fuel reduction treatments to reduce the risk of severe wildfires to vulnerable communities and improve the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior west; 2) synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research to implement restoration-based hazardous fuel reduction treatments on a landscape scale using a more modern and efficient adaptive management framework; 3) translate for and transfer to affected entities any scientific and interdisciplinary knowledge about hazardous fuel reduction treatments; 4) assist affected entities with the design of adaptive management approaches (including monitoring) for the implementation of reducing wildfire risk; and 5) provide peer-reviewed annual reports.