Description
The Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program is a competitive grant program that aims to support high-impact projects that promote collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes. The program is open to various entities, including state and territorial forestry agencies, units of local government, federally recognized Indian Tribes, non-profit organizations, Alaska Native Corporations, and universities. The program requires a 1:1 match of non-federal funding sources, except for the Insular Areas. The minimum funding request per project is $25,000, and the maximum is $300,000. The program prioritizes projects that leverage funding from multiple entities and promote cross-boundary collaboration.
Some examples of eligible projects include:
• Water quality and watershed health improvement
• Wildlife habitat improvement
• Demonstration projects that achieve on-the-ground accomplishments and provide sites for conservation education and tech transfer
• Community tree planting projects in communities with a population of less than 50,000
• Strategic outreach efforts to land managers/owners facing threats from urban sprawl, invasive species, and wildfire
• Cross-boundary fuels management projects
• Integrated efforts to improve management of nonindustrial private forest lands according to a State's Forest Action Plan
• Wildfire fuels management projects
• Reducing wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface to protect high-value assets such as drinking water and community infrastructure
• Survey, prioritization, and treatment to control invasive plants in a high-priority landscape
• Prevention and preparedness projects with on-the-ground impacts in advance of known invasive pests outbreaks
• Special surveys and technical assistance for forest health issues with needs that exceed the resources available through core Forest Health Program (FHP) funding
• Activities that engage the public in forest health work to achieve on-the-ground outcomes
• Restoration of forests following damaging events