The Wildfire Resilience Program supports local partners to develop and implement projects that improve ecological health of natural lands and reduce the risk of catastrophic fire.
The program will fund grants for:
on-the-ground activities to restore the health and increase resilience of California forests, grasslands, and natural lands to wildfire; and
planning and capacity building to increase wildfire resilience in California for projects from Marin County south to Ventura County.
The Conservancy’s Wildfire Resilience Program will host a webinar at 1 pm on December 16, 2021 to provide an overview of this funding proposal and answer questions. The registration link for the webinar is here. The recorded webinar will be posted on the Wildfire Resilience Program page afterwards.
We also encourage prospective applicants to request a pre-application consultation with Conservancy staff. Requests for pre-application consultations and other application questions can be directed to wildfire.resilience@scc.ca.gov.
Pre-proposals can be submitted via email to wildfire.resilience@scc.ca.gov. Pre-proposals are due by 5pm on January 14, 2022 for project approved by May 2022. Pre-proposals submitted after this date will continue to be considered on a rolling basis after the first batch of submissions is reviewed. Based on this review, applicants may be invited to submit a full proposal or asked to provide further information on their project.
There are no maximum or minimum grant amounts for this funding. Conservancy funding from this program comes from three separate sources with different priorities and geographies. The Conservancy has a total of $10 million for wildfire resilience implementation projects, $5 million of which is for the nine-county SF Bay Area. In addition, the Conservancy has about $7 million from the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program (RFFCP) to support capacity building projects from Marin County south to Ventura County, including the East Bay and Salinas Valley.
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