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USDA-FS-2025-LSR-SOUTHERN-IITF: Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 Southern and IITF

Closed Closed December 13, 2024 Opportunity USDA-FS-2025-LSR-SOUTHERN-IITF ☆ Save

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• Award ceiling$600,000
• Award floor$30,000
• Expected awards15
• Cost sharingRequired
• Funding typeGrant

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Who can apply

This opportunity was open to nonprofits, colleges and universities, state and local governments and tribes.

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Is this a realistic fit?

• Past Cooperative Forestry Assistance awards averaged $1.2 million; this notice allows up to $600,000 per award.
• Most of the program's money (75% over five years) went to state and local governments.
• The notice requires cost sharing or matching funds, so you must contribute part of the project cost.

What the grant funds

Please Note: Funding for LSR is competitive and is not guaranteed unless funding is appropriated by Congress each year. The Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) program is designed to “encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes” that not only focuses on priority landscapes but may include issues identified in the respective States’ Forest Action Plans. According to the 2018 Farm Bill, “the landscape scale restoration program is to support landscape scale restoration and management that results in measurable improvements to public benefits derived from State and private forest lands” as identified in a State-wide assessment or equivalent restoration strategy. All applications submitted, except those submitted by Tribes, must have a State Forester sponsor. Non-tribal partners and organizations must work with a State Forester for agreement and sponsorship of a proposal from the beginning of the process to help prioritize the most competitive and needed projects based on priorities set forth in State Forest Action Plans or equivalent restoration strategies. This funding opportunity is for projects with on-the-ground outcomes across the thirteen Southern States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, OK, NC, PR, SC, TN, TX, USVI, and VA. Cross-regional projects are allowed (e.g., include work in States listed above as well as States to the North and/or West). To view the current LSR funding opportunities for the West: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/355887 To view the current LSR funding opportunities for the Northeast/Midwest: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/355287 Additionally, there is a separate request for proposals specifically for federally recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations: https://grants.gov/search-results-detail/355888

Category: Environment, Natural Resources.

Applying now

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