Collaborative Forest Restoration Program
Dept. of Agriculture – Forest Service – National Forest System
Wildfire-Specific Spending: No
Wildfire Activities Funded: “Mitigation”
Authorization:
P.L. 106-393
7+
TOTAL APPROPRIATIONS (IN MIL)
FY2017 – FY2018
Description
Established in 2001, the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFRP) provides 80% cost-share grants of up to $360,000 for forest restoration projects that, among other goals, are aimed at reducing the threat of wildfires on public or tribal lands in New Mexico. Taxpayer-funded projects in 2022 included thinning, prescribed burns, and other wildfire treatments, as well as promoting the use of woody biomass and small-diameter trees.Appropriations
| Regular | Supplemental | IIJA | IRA | |
| FY2015 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2016 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2017 | 4,000,000 | — | — | — |
| FY2018 | 3,000,000 | — | — | — |
| FY2019 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2020 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2021 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2022 | Not Available | — | — | — |
| FY2023 | Not Available | — | — | |
| FY2024 | Not Available | — | — | |
| FY2025 | Not Available | — | — | |
| FY2026 | Not Available | — |
Last Updated: March 20, 2026
Received Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) Funding: No
Received Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Funding: No
Appropriations Notes
The Collaborative Forest Restoration Program is funded through the National Forest System Hazardous Fuels budget line item. Appropriations information, when provided, comes from the Congressional Research Service (R45219). Congress is authorized to appropriate $5 million annually.
*In FY2021, the U.S. Forest Service implemented a new budget line item for salaries and expenses across all Forest Service programs – costs that had previously been incorporated into each program’s budget line item. This re-structuring makes it difficult to compare program spending before and after FY2021.