Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 West | USDA FS 2025 LSR WEST

Opportunity Information: Apply for USDA FS 2025 LSR WEST

The Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 West (Funding Opportunity Number: USDA FS 2025 LSR WEST) is a discretionary grant program run by the USDA Forest Service that focuses on improving the health and resilience of priority rural forest landscapes through collaborative, science-based restoration work. The program is designed to fund projects that create real, on-the-ground results at a meaningful scale, rather than small isolated activities. A central theme is measurable landscape outcomes, meaning applicants are expected to propose work that can be tracked and demonstrated through clear results, such as acres treated, fuels reduced, watershed function improved, or habitat conditions enhanced. The program also emphasizes partnerships and leverage, so strong proposals typically show coordination among multiple stakeholders and demonstrate how federal funds will be combined with state, local, private, nonprofit, or other resources to expand impact.

This opportunity is specifically for restoration projects taking place in the western service area identified in the notice. Eligible project locations include the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. It also includes several U.S.-affiliated Pacific jurisdictions: the Territory of American Samoa, Territory of Guam, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Freely Associated States listed in the announcement (the Republic of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands). If a project is located outside this western footprint, applicants are directed to separate Landscape Scale Restoration opportunities for the Northeast and Midwest and for the South. The notice also flags an important limitation for tribal applicants: there is a separate FY 2025 request for proposals specifically for Federally Recognized Tribes and Alaska Native Corporations/Villages, which means tribal entities should pay close attention to which solicitation applies to them before preparing an application.

The program’s priorities are tied closely to statewide and science-based planning frameworks. Projects are expected to align with priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or an equivalent science-based restoration strategy, which is the mechanism the Forest Service uses to ensure proposed work addresses the most pressing threats and opportunities identified for forests and adjacent communities. In practical terms, this often means proposals should clearly connect planned restoration actions to known landscape challenges such as wildfire risk, insect and disease pressure, drought impacts, declining watershed conditions, fragmentation of habitat, or other stressors that affect rural forest landscapes. Because the program is described as collaborative, it implicitly favors applications that show broad support and coordinated implementation, such as multi-ownership approaches that connect treatments across boundaries and produce benefits at a larger geographic scale.

In terms of who can apply, eligibility is broad and includes government, education, nonprofit, and tribal entities. Eligible applicants include state governments; county governments; city or township governments; special district governments; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments (with the caveat that a separate tribal-focused solicitation exists for FY 2025); and nonprofits both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education). The funding is structured as a grant, and the funding activity category is Environment and Natural Resources under CFDA (Assistance Listing) 10.664. The opportunity is competitive, meaning applications are ranked against each other rather than funded on a first-come basis.

Key basic details included in the listing are an award ceiling of $300,000 and an original closing date of 2024-11-15. The listing also notes an expected awards field, but the provided source data does not specify a number. The opportunity record was created on 2024-08-12. Overall, this program is best understood as a targeted Forest Service funding stream for partners who can demonstrate readiness to implement restoration at scale, document clear and measurable outcomes, and show that the work advances state-identified forest priorities while leveraging additional resources to multiply the effect of federal dollars.

• The Forest Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Landscape Scale Restoration Grant Program 2025 West" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.664.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2024-08-12.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2024-11-15. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $300,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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