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Stewardship Agreements

Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

🌾 Agriculture, Food & Fisheries🏷️ State Governments🏷️ Local Governments🏷️ Tribal Governments🏷️ Nonprofits🏷️ Operations

Stewardship End Result Contracting authorizes use of contracts and agreements to help achieve land management goals while meeting local and rural community needs, including contributing to the sustainability of rural communities and providing a continuing source of local income and employment. It focuses on the “end result” ecosystem benefits and outcomes, rather than on what's removed from the land.

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Helps local governments and non-profits pay for forest restoration work like trail maintenance and wildlife habitat improvement. Covers activities to reduce wildfire risks and restore water quality.

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Funding
Up to $300,000,000
Deadline
Rolling
Status
Rolling Intake
Category
Agriculture, Food & Fisheries
Organization
Department Of Agriculture, Forest Service

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What Is This Program?

The Forest Service may enter into stewardship agreements with any entity that has the ability to either perform the work or contract it out. This can include, state and local governments, Federally recognized tribes and non-profit organizations. Appropriate Stewardship Activities include (but are not limited to): Road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality; Soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries or other resource values; Setting of prescribed fires to reduce wildfire hazards, improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of forest stands, or to improve wildlife habitat; Removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce wildfire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives; Watershed restoration and maintenance; Restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish habitat; Control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishment of native plant species.

What Benefits Are Offered?

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Contracts for land management services focused on achieving ecosystem benefits such as forest health restoration, water quality improvement, habitat enhancement, and hazardous fuel reduction. Benefits include receiving payment for services rendered, with the potential to offset service costs using the value of removed timber or forest products, and contributing to local community economic sustainability.

Who Is Eligible?

Business Size: small, medium

Industries: land management, forest products, ecosystem restoration, rangeland management, water quality management, wildlife habitat improvement, hazardous fuels reduction

Region: National Forests, public lands, rural communities, areas with Fire Regime Groups I, II, and III (for 20-year contracts)

Other Criteria: able to achieve land management goals, meet local and rural community needs, contribute to the sustainability of rural communities, provide a continuing source of local income and employment, focus on 'end result' ecosystem benefits, preference for innovative use of forest products, selected on a 'best value' basis

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This program is available to small, medium businesses in land management, forest products, ecosystem restoration industries located in National Forests, public lands, rural communities, areas with Fire Regime Groups I, II, and III (for 20-year contracts).

This program offers funding up to $300,000,000.

This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.

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