The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

 

Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Overview

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Type
Funding
Organization
US Forest Service
Description

Deadline Passed 11/27/2019. Deadline Unknown for 2020. Congress established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) with Title IV of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 (PDF, 40 KB) and reauthorized it in the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 Section 8629 (the Farm Bill). The purpose of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program is to encourage the collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority forest landscapes and:encourage ecological, economic, and social sustainability;leverage local resources with national and private resources;facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs, including through re-establishing natural fire regimes and reducing the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire;demonstrate the degree to which various ecological restoration techniques achieve ecological and watershed health objectives; and,encourage utilization of forest restoration by-products to offset treatment costs, to benefit local rural economies, to and improve forest health.

Funding Amount
up to $4 million
Matching Funds
Yes
Geography
National
Eligibility
To be eligible for nomination under subsection
(c), a collaborative forest landscape restoration proposal shall:
(1) be based on a landscape restoration strategy that:
(A) is complete or substantially complete;
(B) identifies and prioritizes ecological restoration treatments for a 10-year period within a landscape that is:
(i) at least 50,000 acres;
(ii) comprised primarily of forested National Forest System land, but may also include land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land
Management, land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, or other Federal, State, tribal, or private land;
(iii) in need of active ecosystem restoration; and
(iv) accessible by existing or proposed wood processing infrastructure at an appropriate scale to use woody biomass and small-diameter wood
removed in ecological restoration treatments;
Website
https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=321053
Contact Information
Region 10 (Alaska Region):
Dave Harris (907) 586-7875
dave.harris@usda.gov

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
Questions about this Guide should be directed to kathy@uoregon.edu.

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