The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting applications for its Colorado Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/03/2022
Size of the Grant: $5,000 – $930,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado 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. 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 wildfire.
- 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, non-government 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 helps 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.
Program Strategic Goals
- Accomplish fuels management activities on federal and non-federal land.
- Develop and implement fire education, training, and/or community action plans/programs.
- Conduct Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), community wildfire assessments, and planning activities.
- Expand community capability to enhance local employment opportunities.
- Develop and implement short and long-term monitoring and maintenance plans for hazardous fuels reduction, community fire education and training, and community action programs.
Funding Information
- Maximum Award – $930,000
- Minimum Award – $5,000
- Projects cannot be funded for more than a five-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
