The Wildfire and Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program seeks to create more resilient forest landscapes and watersheds and reduce wildfire risk.
Donor Name: Sierra Nevada Conservancy
State: California
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/31/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The primary focus of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program is protecting people and communities.
Program Priorities
The primary focus of the Program is protecting people and communities.
- California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan identifies three goals that are strongly aligned with the WIP: healthy and resilient natural places, safe communities, and sustainable economies. Both plans also stress the importance of climate resiliency, Regionally tailored solutions, the linkages between ecological and economic health, the importance of low-intensity fire, and the need to work strategically across land ownership boundaries.
- Additionally, the Program aims to support projects that result in a combination of multiple watershed, ecosystem, and community benefits. Examples of such benefits include the reduced likelihood of high-intensity fire and the negative consequences of such fires; protection and enhancement of natural resources, habitat and recreation; improved air and water quality; increased carbon sequestration and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; and supporting Regional economies.
Funding Information
Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) will be available for this immediate action grant program.
Eligible Projects
The primary activities of the project must include at least one of the items below:
- Removal of hazardous, dead, and/or dying trees
- Removal of vegetation for the creation of strategic fuel breaks as identified by approved fire prevention plans, including without limitation, CAL FIRE Unit Fire Plans or Community Wildfire Protection Plans
- Removal of vegetation for community defensible space
- Removal of vegetation along roadways, highways, and freeways for the creation of safer ingress and egress routes for the public and responders and/or to reduce roadside ignitions
- Removal of vegetation using cultural traditional ecological knowledge for cultural burning and/or prescribed fire treatments for fuels reduction
- Improvements to previously established fuel breaks or fuels-modification projects.
Eligibility Criteria
Grant funds may be authorized for:
- Public agencies: any city, county, special district, joint powers authority, state agency, or federal agency
- Qualifying 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations: “Nonprofit Organization” means a private, nonprofit organization that qualifies for exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code, and whose charitable purposes are consistent with the purposes of the SNC
- Eligible Tribal Entities: an Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, or a tribal agency authorized by a tribe, which is one or both of the following: (1) Recognized by the United States and identified within the most current Federal Register; (2) Listed on the contact list maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission as a California Native American tribe. Eligible tribal entities are encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit SNC.
