Funding provided through this program promotes mobilization readiness for efficient suppression of wildfires on all state and private lands to help maintain healthy forests and promote working…

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R9-Eastern Region awarded the Iowa Department of Natural Resources $367,331 on June 4, 2026, under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) to deliver forest management, reforestation, and invasive species monitoring activities across Iowa through September 30, 2030.

The award funds landowner education workshops and one-on-one technical site assistance for reforestation projects focused on wildlife habitat, watershed protection, riparian buffers, and future wood products. The recipient will distribute low-cost conservation seedlings to private landowners and conduct a residential tree distribution program supported by tree planting workshops. An exotic bark beetle survey at high-risk locations will employ contracted trap placement and servicing, laboratory identification of samples, and database creation and maintenance to support forest health monitoring and wildfire suppression readiness on nonfederal lands.

Funding provided through this program promotes mobilization readiness for efficient suppression of wildfires on all state and private lands to help maintain healthy forests and promote working relationships. Provides low-cost conservation seedlings available for landowners to engage in reforestation for wildlife habitat, watershed protection and riparian buffers, and future wood products. Activities will include landowner education and workshops and one on one technical site assistance. Exotic bark beetle survey at high risk locations. Funding will be used to hire the contractor to place and service the traps, lab time to identify the samples, and creating and maintaining the database. Funding for residential tree distribution program and a tree planting workshops and education.