2025 Wildfire & Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program

The 2025 Wildfire & Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program is a grant opportunity provided by the Sierra Nevada Conservancy to support projects that result in a combination of multiple watershed, ecosystem, and community benefits. The primary focus of this program is protecting people and communities, and it aims to support projects that align with California's Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan. Eligible applicants include nonprofit organizations, public agencies, and tribal governments. The program will provide a total of $10,000,000 in funding, and the expected award announcement will be made in March 2026 and June 2026. • Eligible projects must be located within the Sierra-Cascade Region and must meet specific criteria, including completion of environmental compliance or approval under the Statewide Fuels Reduction Environmental Protection Plan. • The primary activities of the project must include at least one of the following items: removal of hazardous, dead, and/or dying trees, removal of vegetation for the creation of strategic fuel breaks, removal of vegetation for community defensible space, removal of vegetation along roadways, highways, and freeways, removal of vegetation using cultural traditional ecological knowledge for cultural burning and/or prescribed fire treatments for fuels reduction, or improvements to previously established fuel breaks or fuels-modification projects. • The program will give favorable consideration to projects that involve California Native American tribes, were developed under the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program, directly benefit disadvantaged communities, engage a workforce-development effort, or enable the equitable geographic distribution of SNC resources.