Cal Fire is soliciting applications for grants for projects that prevent catastrophic wildfires, protect communities, and restore forests to while sequestering carbon and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Cal Fire plans to award up to $120 million for local projects in and near fire-threatened communities that focus on increasing the protection of people, structures, and communities.
Qualified activities include hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning and wildfire prevention education with an emphasis on improving public safety while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Cal Fire plans to award up to $120 million to landscape-level forest restoration projects that increase resilience to catastrophic disturbance.
Eligible activities include forest fuels reduction, fire reintroduction, reforestation, and the use of forest biomass.
These grant programs are part of California Climate Investments, a statewide initiative that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work.
The programs complement the 2018 Strategic Fire Plan for California and the State Forest Carbon Plan.
Fire prevention applications are due by 3 p.m. Feb. 9, 2022.
Forest Health application filing opens Jan. 3, 2022, with the deadline 3 p.m. March 3, 2022.
Public workshops, in person and virtual, will be scheduled. The Fire Prevention Grant Program hosted its first virtual workshop on Dec. 17.
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Check www.fire.ca.gov/grants/fire-prevention-grants/ and www.fire.ca.gov/grants/forest-health-grants/ for more dates, times, and locations. Workshops are recorded.
For more information and to sign up for grant email announcements, visit www.fire.ca.gov/grants.