Description
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. The program is open to State forestry or an equivalent State agency, units of local government, federally recognized Indian Tribes and Tribal organizations, nonprofit organizations, and universities.
• Eligible projects must achieve on-the-ground outcomes on rural, nonindustrial private forest land and/or rural Tribal, State, or local government forest land.
• Projects must further the priorities, e.g., goal, strategy, and/or priority landscape, in the 2020 State Forest Action Plan or equivalent restoration strategy.
• A minimum of $25,000 and a maximum of $600,000 in Federal funding is available per project, with a required 1:1 match.
• The program is authorized by the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act.