Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2024 Northeast and Midwest
Closed Posted
- Opportunity number
- USDA-FS-2024-LSR-NORTHEAST-MIDWEST
- Agency
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Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
- Applications due
- Award size
- $25,000 to $600,000
Opportunity facts
- Assistance listings
- Funding instrument
- Grant
- Categories
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- Environment
- Natural Resources
- Eligible applicants
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- City/Township Governments
- Higher Education Inst. (Private)
- 501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- Higher Education Inst. (Public)
- Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
- County Governments
- Special District Governments
- Non-501(c)(3) Nonprofits
- State Governments
- Full announcement
Opportunity details come from Grants.gov. Updated .
About this opportunity
The USDA Forest Service Eastern Region is seeking applications for the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program for fiscal year 2024. The program aims to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes, leveraging public and private resources, and furthering priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan. The program supports projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, including reducing the risk of wildfires, improving fish and wildlife habitats, maintaining or improving water quality and watershed function, mitigating invasive species, insect infestation, and disease, improving important forest ecosystems, and measuring ecological and economic benefits.
Products and Services to be provided:
- Collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes.
- Reduction of the risk of wildfires.
- Improvement of fish and wildlife habitats.
- Maintenance or improvement of water quality and watershed function.
- Mitigation of invasive species, insect infestation, and disease.
- Improvement of important forest ecosystems.
- Measurement of ecological and economic benefits.
- Technical transfer of knowledge, tools, and innovations for practical application.
- Outreach, training, lessons learned, or related opportunities.
- Benefit to underserved communities/people.
Synopsis
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Update #2 · Latest ·
Edited typo in expected number of awards (from 35-15) -
The purpose of the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program is to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. This program supports, high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.
- Note: All applicants, except Federally recognized tribes, must have the relevant State Forester(s) sponsor the application. Submit a draft of the application narrative and budget spreadsheet to the relevant State Forester(s) (for where the work will be done) by COB October 5.
- There is a separate request for proposals specifically for federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. At the top of the screen select the link: Related Opportunities.
- This funding opportunity is for projects with on-the-ground outcomes across the 20 Northeast and Midwest states: CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, OH, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WI, and WV.
- To view LSR funding opportunities for the West and South, at the top of the screen select the link: Related Opportunities.
Update #1 ·
Changed open date to Aug. 18 -
The purpose of the Landscape Scale Restoration competitive grant program is to encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority rural forest landscapes. This program supports, high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in each State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.
- Note: All applicants, except Federally recognized tribes, must have the relevant State Forester(s) sponsor the application. Submit a draft of the application narrative and budget spreadsheet to the relevant State Forester(s) (for where the work will be done) by COB October 5.
- There is a separate request for proposals specifically for federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations. At the top of the screen select the link: Related Opportunities.
- This funding opportunity is for projects with on-the-ground outcomes across the 20 Northeast and Midwest states: CT, DE, IA, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, OH, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WI, and WV.
- To view LSR funding opportunities for the West and South, at the top of the screen select the link: Related Opportunities.
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