Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service
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National Forest System Restoration and Fuels Reduction Projects: Vegetation and Watershed Management Projects
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Description: To enhance ecological integrity and restoration as prescribed in a Water Source Protection Plan or Watershed Protection and Restoration Action Plan. Bill Section: 23001(a)(2) US Code: 16 USC 6542(d)(1) or 6543(a)(3)) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost: $200,000,000 Timeline: FY22-31
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National Forest System Restoration and Fuels Reduction Projects: Old-Growth Forest Protection and Inventory
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Description: To establish definitions for mature and old-growth forests, complete an inventory of old growth and mature forest conditions, and develop policy and process to preserve those conditions. Bill Section: 23001(a)(4) New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost: $50,000,000 Timeline: FY22-31
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Competitive Grants for Non-Federal Land Owners: Climate Mitigation or Forest Resilience Grants
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Description: $150 million for competitive grants through the Landscape-Scale Restoration Program to assist underserved forest landowners – beginning, in high poverty areas, federally recognized tribes, limited resource producers, or veterans – in climate mitigation or forest resilience practices; $150 million to support the participation of underserved forest landowners in…
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State and Private Forestry Conservation Programs: Forest Legacy Program
Agency: Department of Agriculture-Forest Service Description: Competitive grants to States through the Forest Legacy Program to acquire land and interests in land. Bill Section: 23003(a)(1) US Code: 16 USC 2103c New or Existing: Existing Potential Cost: $700,000,000 Timeline: FY22-31 Implementation Status/Rulemaking: On June 29, 2023, USFS announced $100 million in Inflation…
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Ecosystem Restoration: Revegetation Effort to Implement National Seed Strategy for USDA
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service Description: To establish and implement a national revegetation effort on Federal and nonFederal land, including to implement the National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration. Bill Section: 40804(b)(9)(B) Potential Cost: $130,000,000 Timeline: FY22-26
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Wildfire Risk Reduction: Geostationary Operations Environmental Satellite Program at USDA
Agency: Department of Agriculture – Forest Service Description: For entering into an agreement with the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish and operate a program that makes use of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite Program to rapidly detect and report wildfire starts in all areas in which the Secretary of…
