The Forest Service is seeking applications for its 2025 Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program for Tribes.
Donor Name: Forest Service
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/16/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
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 science-based restoration strategies.
This competitive grant program supports collaborative high impact projects that lead to measurable outcomes on the landscape, leverage public and private resources, and further priorities identified in a science-based restoration strategy (for example a Tribal Forest Plan, State Forest Action Plan, or other equivalent restoration strategy). Program objectives include reduced wildfire risk; improved fish and wildlife habitats; maintained or improved water quality; and mitigated invasive plants, insects, and disease.
Recognizing the importance of forest land to Tribal communities, the Forest Service is seeking proposals from Federally Recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations and Villages to restore priority forest landscapes on Tribal land. Eligible Tribal forest land includes (1) Tribal trust land held both by Tribes and individuals and (2) Tribally-owned fee lands. Under this solicitation, Federally Recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations and Villages are eligible to apply for assistance.
Funding Information
The program offers several tiers of support to accommodate a range of project scales and administrative capacity considerations.
- The minimum funding request per project for all applicants is $50,000 and the maximum is $300,000.
- Cross-boundary projects that include more than one Tribe with corresponding restoration activities on more than one Tribal ownership may be considered for up to $600,000 per project.
Project Period
3 years.
Eligible Lands
LSR projects must be conducted on rural non-industrial private forest land, which includes Indian trust lands and Tribal lands held in fee, and/or rural State or local government forest land. Nonindustrial private forest land is land that:
- Is rural;
- Has existing tree cover or is suitable for growing trees; and
- Is owned by any private individual, group, association, corporation, Indian tribe, or other private legal entity.
Eligibility Criteria
For the purposes of this Request for Proposals (RFP), Federally Recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations and Villages operating within the United States, or its territories, are eligible to submit proposals. A Tribal organization as defined in 25 USC 5304 (l)2 may also apply at the request of a Federally Recognized Tribe (these require a letter of support from the relevant Tribe).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
