The Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is seeking applications for its California Climate Investments Grant Program.
Donor Name: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/30/2026
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Forest Health Program addresses the risk to California’s forests from disturbance events including catastrophic wildfires, drought, and pest mortality. These events are the result of climate change, past land management practices, and an increasing number of people living in the wildland and urban interface.
CAL FIRE’s Forest Health Program awards funding to landscape-scale land management projects that achieve the following objectives:
- Restore forest health and disaster resilience to California’s forests.
- Protect upper watersheds where California’s water supply originates.
- Promote long-term storage of carbon in forest trees and soils through reforestation and reduction of forest overcrowding and pests.
- Minimize the loss of forest carbon from severe disturbance events by reducing forest density and lowering and redistributing forest fuel loads.
- Further the goals of the California Forest Carbon Plan, California’s Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy, California’s Wildfire & Forest Resilience Action Plan, California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire, and AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan.
Funding Information
Grants Up to $55 million.
Eligible Activities
Forest Health projects must advance long-term forest and watershed resilience by applying a balanced and integrated suite of treatments across large landscapes. Eligible activities include, but are not limited to, improved forest management, fuels reduction, prescribed fire, cultural fire, prescribed grazing, pest management, reforestation, biomass utilization, forest watershed restoration, upper watershed, riparian, and mountain meadow restoration, and activities that promote long-term carbon storage and sequestration. Projects that strategically integrate multiple activity types and are implemented through experienced, multi-partner collaborations may receive priority consideration.
- Forest Fuels Reduction
- Prescribed Fire
- Pest Management
- Reforestation/Restoration
- Biomass Utilization
- Tribal Land Management.
Eligibility Criteria
- CAL FIRE will enter into grant agreements with local, state, and federal public agencies; Native American tribes; public universities or universities organized as non-profits; special districts; industrial and non-industrial private forest landowners; and non-profit organizations.
- Native American tribe applicants are also encouraged to apply for Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants with CAL FIRE’s Tribal Wildfire Resilience program.
For more information, visit CAL FIRE.
