Overview
The Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Competitive Grant Program supports high impact projects that promote collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes, leverage public and private resources, and advance priorities identified in a State Forest Action Plan or other restoration strategy.
The objective is to focus competitive LSR funds on activities that address priority areas, challenges and opportunities facing western lands. Funding for the LSR Competitive Process is made possible through the USDA Forest Service.
WFLC is charged with delivering the LSR competitive grant process in the West. Our LSR grants team reviews, scores, and makes recommendations on project proposals from western states and Pacific Island territories, which are passed along to the WFLC membership for approval. Proposed projects recommended for funding are then sent to the Forest Service.
General Information
All proposals must be submitted online at www.forestrygrants.org. Passwords are provided to each Western State and Pacific Island Forester.
States will sometimes have a pre-proposal process that may have an earlier due date and details. We encourage you to contact the state point of contact for more information.
Past proposal submissions, scores, and comments are posted at www.forestrygrants.org. For archived applications from 2010-2014, click here.
Priority Projects
Priority will be given to project proposals that include any of the following bulleted
prioritization factors. Please see the scoring rubric at the end of this document to see the
specific sections in which one or more of these priority factors should be detailed to receive
priority points.
➢ Promote cross-boundary collaboration:
○ By their proximity to other land ownerships; or
○ By their inclusion of a combination of land ownerships, including tribal,
State and local government, and private lands (such as, but not limited to,
multiple private landowners; private and state landowners; state and
federal landowners; state and local government; or state and Tribal
landowners).
➢ Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale
projects on NFS lands or lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior
or a state that are carried out:
○ Under the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (16 U.S.C. 7303).
○ In landscape areas designated for insect and disease treatments under section 602
of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (16 U.S.C. 6591a).
○ Under the Good Neighbor Authority (16 U.S.C. 2113a).
○ Under the stewardship end result contracting and agreement authority (16 U.S.C.
6591c).
➢ Coordinate with or are in proximity to other complementary landscape-scale projects on
State land.
➢ Coordinate with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) programs
and appropriate state-level programs.
➢ Leverage funding from multiple entities.
➢ The term disadvantaged communities is used in Executive Order 14008, Tackling
the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad. The Interim Implementation Guidance for
the Justice40 Initiative, released by OMB in July 2021, provides definitions on
community and disadvantaged. Projects must include a description of the benefiting
community or recipient and how the project benefits or engages underserved
communities or people.
State and territorial forestry agencies (or an equivalent state agency), units of local
government, federally recognized Indian Tribes, non-profit organizations (defined as a
501(c)(3)), Alaska Native Corporations, and universities are eligible to receive LSR
funding. For-profit entities are not eligible to apply.
➢ Indian Tribe is defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and
Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).