Dear Colleagues,
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, partnering with the US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and the Bezos Earth Fund, has launched the California Forests: Targeted Headwater Resilience Implementation and Monitoring 2022 Request for Proposals and is accepting applications until July 21, 2022.
This funding opportunity continues NFWF's efforts toward improving Forest Health and Watershed Resilience across California and complements the goals of many of our public and private partners who are working to protect, restore, and conserve California's critical forested environments.
The program is soliciting proposals to address a variety of forest health and resilience needs in California across nine (9) key areas, as follow:
- Forest Revegetation for Carbon Benefits
- Fuels Management Projects across the region
- Fuels Management Monitoring and Species Response
- Transportation Infrastructure and Aquatic Organism Passage Improvements on, or Adjacent to USFS lands
- Sierra Nevada Meadow Restoration to Benefit Desert Terminal Lakes
- Technical Assistance funding for wildfire resilience in the Russian River watersheds
- Wetland restoration within the San Francisco Bay Delta
- Implement species specific management actions to increase northern spotted owl occupancy on public and private lands in Mendocino, Co.
- Improve resiliency of native rainbow trout populations by embryonic translocation in southern California.
Proposals submitted to this RFP must respond to the program priorities associated with one of the nine targeted headwater resilience needs. Each program area has its own expectations, guidance and conditions. Proposals must describe how projects for which funds are requested will directly and measurably contribute to those particular program area goals. Collectively, this funding opportunity seeks to award approximately $5,623,000 million in grants.
All application materials must be submitted online through National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Easygrants system.
To review the complete application requirements, please review the RFP at https://www.nfwf.org/programs/northern-california-forests-and-watersheds/california-forests-targeted-headwater-resilience-implementation-and-monitoring-2022-request
For more information or questions about this RFP, please contact:
- Angie Carl, Director, California Forest Programs
Email: Angie.Carl@nfwf.org: Phone: (910) 409-2969
- Kaitlyn Hill, Program Coordinator, Western Regional Office
Email: Kaitlyn.Hill@nfwf.org; Phone: 202-595-2436
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)