The U.S. Department of Agriculture will invest more than $41 million this fiscal year into projects that mitigate wildfire risk, improve water quality and restore healthy forest ecosystems on public and private lands.
That funding, through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership, includes $10.6 million for new projects and $30.5 million to complete work on 20 projects selected earlier.
The new projects include:
Fort Huachuca Sentinel Landscape Restoration Project, Arizona
Building Resilient Watersheds to Improve Drinking Water in the Ozark and Ouachita Highlands, Arkansas
Little Jones Creek Project-Smith River Collaborative and Los Padres Strategic Community Fuelbreak Collaborative, California
Goose Creek Interagency Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Project, Idaho
Healthy Ecosystem of Longleaf Pine Partnership, Louisiana
Central Ozark Glade, Woodland, and Native Diversity Restoration Project, Missouri
Castle Mountains Restoration Project, Montana
Nebraska Northwest Landscape Restoration II
Greater Santa Fe Fireshed, New Mexico
Sugarloaf Fire Rehabilitation, Nevada
North Dakota Badlands Restoration Project
Central Wasco County All-Lands Project and Upper Crooked River Restoration, Oregon
Monroe Mountain Ecosystems Restoration Project (Phase 2), Utah
North Shenandoah Mountain Restoration Project, Virginia
Ag producers and forest landowners interested in a project to mitigate wildfire risk should contact their local USDA service center to learn if their land is eligible. More information is available at https://bit.ly/3c9yxGo.
