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USDA Forest Service Tribal Landscape Restoration Grants and Sample Project Budget

The USDA Forest Service is offering Landscape Scale Restoration grants for collaborative forest-health and restoration projects involving Tribes and eligible rural forest lands. - Government buyer: U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service, State, Private, & Tribal Forestry. - Grant opportunity: Landscape Scale Restoration FY2026 Grant Program: Tribes and Tribal Lands (USDA-FS-2026-LSR-TRIBAL). Up to $1,260,000 is available, with estimated awards of $100,000–$300,000 and a required 1:1 non-Federal match. - Eligible applicants and work: Federally recognized Tribes, Alaska Native Corporations and Villages, and qualifying Tribal organizations applying at a Tribe’s request. Projects must deliver measurable, collaborative restoration outcomes on eligible rural forest lands, potentially addressing wildfire risk, habitat, watershed function, invasive species, insects, or disease. - Project duration and requirements: Projects may be planned for one to three years and must be completed within three years; the Forest Service may approve an extension of up to two additional years. Construction is not allowed. - OEM and named vendors: Corona is named for the 32-inch super-duty bypass loppers. No other product manufacturers or vendors are identified; a university is mentioned as a laboratory contractor but is not named. - Items in the sample project budget: Three Corona loppers, three 14-inch handsaws, three weed wrenches, two chainsaws, saw fuel, 40 rolls of forestry flagging tape, four packs of disease-collection petri dishes, personal protective equipment for three people, printing materials and maps, one project-use tablet, and partner-provided tractors and haulers. - Budgeted services and field work: A full-time forest health specialist for two years; three field technicians; travel for silvicultural treatments; 25 landowner technical-assistance visits; laboratory identification of an estimated 100 disease samples; prescribed burns on 525 acres; and natural-resource assessments and water-quality sampling.

Description

The Forest Service seeks proposals for its competitive Landscape Scale Restoration grant program supporting collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes. Projects should produce measurable outcomes, leverage public and private resources, and further a science-based restoration strategy; objectives may include reducing wildfire risk, improving fish and wildlife habitat, protecting water quality and watershed function, and addressing invasive species, insects, or disease. Eligible projects must take place on rural non-industrial private forest land and/or rural state or local government forest land, including eligible Indian trust lands. Recipients must provide a 1:1 match from non-federal sources; individual awards range from $100,000 to $300,000.

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