The Private Landowner Protection, Resilience, and Restoration Assistance (PRRA) Program is a competitive grant program funded by the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry branch, that promotes collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes and furthers priorities identified in State Forest Action Plans.
Donor Name: Idaho Department of Lands (IDL)
State: Idaho
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Desired outcomes of the program include reduced wildfire risk; improved fish and wildlife habitats, including for threatened and endangered species; maintained or improved water quality and watershed function; mitigated invasive species, insect infestation, and disease; improved important forest ecosystems; and improved measures of ecological and economic benefits, including air quality, and soil quality and productivity.
Funding Information
Total grant funds requested = $240,000.
Grant Period
3 years.
Eligible Projects
Examples (not all inclusive) of qualifying projects:
- Defensible space around homes and structures
- Shaded fuel breaks
- Fuels reduction beyond defensible space adjacent to WUI areas
- Removal of slash, including piling and burning, mulching, grinding, etc.
- Prescribed fire
- Thinning
- Maintenance of non-federally funded fuels projects
- Monitoring components of projects for effectiveness
- Planting native species to increase diversity & structural complexity in forests
- Strategic establishment of fire-resistant vegetation
- Seedling growing, propagation, and stocking for reforestation and landscape restoration activities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible entities include:
- State, county, and local agencies
- Non-profit (501c3) organizations
- Tribes
- Educational Institutions
- Individual private landowners are not eligible to apply for funding directly with IDL.
- Additionally, in Idaho, any project addressing fire mitigation as a primary objective, must be explicitly listed in the local County Wide Protection Plan (CWPP), Hazard Mitigation Plan, or equivalent document, to be considered eligible for funding. Coordination with the County entity responsible for maintaining the CWPP is required.
For more information, visit IDL.
