Project Grant ED21HDQ3070058

The Colorado State University Sponsored Programs division will receive $304,000 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region on October 1, 2022. The funding supports the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network (SRFSN) to complete work through September 30, 2024. Under the Joint Fire Science Program, SRFSN will develop a community of practice for wildland fire knowledge exchange among researchers, managers, and stakeholders. It will implement knowledge...

This $998,831 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228) will support the University of Utah in establishing a network of 16 wildfire detection cameras across high-risk areas in Utah. The cameras will be placed on mountaintops and integrated with existing highway cameras to provide early wildfire detection and rapid response capabilities for firefighters and emergency responders. Key project...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $1,465,295 Project Grant to Remake Talent, operating as the Firebrand Resiliency Collective, under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The grant, which runs from September 2024 to May 2029, supports the development and implementation of the Rogue Valley Integrated Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Key activities include community building, education, risk assessments, and...

The University of Idaho was awarded a $523,941 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232). The primary objective of the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network (NRFSN) project is to facilitate knowledge exchange among fire managers and scientists in the Northern Rockies region. Key activities include synthesizing science, enhancing science application to critical fire and fuels management issues,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), provides $629,326 to study the water quality impacts of prescribed fire in western US conifer forests. The project aims to address uncertainties around how prescribed fire usage for forest restoration, in response to increasing wildfire size and severity due to climate change, may affect water quality. The study will examine...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Weather and Air Quality Research federal grant program (CFDA 11.459) is focused on demonstrating and validating WRF-SFIRE forecasts initialized with Next Generation Fire System (NGFS) ignition points through the Fire Weather Testbed. The $780,762 project, running from August 2025 to July 2028, will involve development of a recommender tool to integrate the fire spread and smoke impact...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded the Riverside-Corona Resource Conservation District a $250,000 Project Grant under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The funding supports the development of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for California communities at risk of wildfire damage and loss. The award has a performance period from January 13, 2025, to July 6, 2026. The federal grant program aims to create...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R8-Southern Region awarded a five-year, $130,829 Project Grant to Carolina Land And Lakes (Rc&D), Inc., a non-profit organization, to develop a community wildfire protection plan for Mitchell County, North Carolina under the federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). This grant is part of a larger $1,273,350 award to Carolina Land And Lakes (Rc&D), Inc. to develop and update...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $1.8 million cooperative agreement to Reax Engineering, Inc. from January 2023 through October 2027 under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). The award will support Reax Engineering's development of a FIRES COMPARISON DASHBOARD to assist the Forest Service with the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program's goals related to rural fire prevention, control, suppression and...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $7,374,392 Project Grant to the Lake County Resource Conservation District under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720). The goal of this 4.5-year project is to reduce fuels and build capacity among the native community to achieve fire-resilient ecosystems by conducting intentional burning on landscapes that have not been burned in nearly 200 years. The project aims to...