The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance programs use a risk-based approach that supports the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy goals of restoring and maintaining Fire Resilient Landscapes, creating Fire Adapted Communities and Responding to Wildfire.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 09/30/2022
Grant Size: $150,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
This is to be accomplished by:
- Planning and implementing strategies to protect communities and infrastructure and to enhance, restore or maintain forest and rangeland plant communities, including habitats that are critical for special status species and other highly valued resources and assets where they are at risk from wildlfire.
- Promoting public understanding and facilitating citizen-driven efforts to reduce the threat and impact of wildfire through community planning, education, mitigation, community assistance, and fuels management on federal and non-federal land.
- Fostering and promoting fuels management and community assistance coordination, cooperation, and partnerships with other federal, state, tribal, local government, nongovernment organizations, universities, and private entities.
- Planning and implementing effective fuels treatment strategies that ensure resilient landscapes, emphasizes effectiveness as it relates to mitigating wildfire impacts, and help provide a safe and effective response to wildfire.
- Coordination with other landowners and cooperators to ensure fuels treatments are planned and implemented across landscapes.
- Enhance local and small business employment opportunities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $800,000
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
- Award Floor: $5,000
- Projects cannot be funded for more than a five-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
