Fuel Mitigation Programs
Fuel Mitigation Opportunities
Are you a landowner concerned about the health of your forested property?
Do you live in a fire-prone area?
Do you have unhealthy or hazardous tree fuel build-up that needs to be thinned?
Hazardous Fuels Treatment Grant funding is available to assist private landowners.
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All Funding Opportunities Flyer.pdfAssistance Available for Forest Fuels Reduction Treatments on Private Lands (2022-2024)
The Bitterroot National Forest and Natural Resources Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Hamilton field office have received the USDA’s Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Award.
Through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership, the Forest Service and NRCS are working together to protect communities from wildfires, improve water quality, and restore forest ecosystems on public and private lands.
The NRCS will be offering cost share opportunities to forest landowners to implement forest thinning practices and supporting practices. The funding will be available to landowners for three-years (2022-2024). The cost share will focus on a specific area within Ravalli County each year of the project.
Year 1 (2022) will focus on the eastside of the valley.
Year 2 (2023) will focus on the south part of the valley.
Year 3 (2024) will focus on the westside of the valley.
Landowners interested in learning more about this cost share opportunity are encouraged to call the NRCS Hamilton Field Office (406) 361-6191.
The Montana Department of Natural Resources & Conservation
Western Wildland Urban Interface Grant Program
This program supports the following activities on private and state lands:
hazardous fuel reduction
fire-adapted ecosystem restoration
homeowner information and education
assessment and planning
monitoring through community and landowner action
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Bitter Root RC&D Hazardous Fuels Reduction Programs
Hazardous Fuels Treatment Grant funding may be available to assist private landowners and communities living in the Wildland-Urban Interface within Missoula, Mineral and Ravalli Counties.
Applications from individual landowners, groups of homeowners, and communities are solicited yearlong. Visit the Bitter Root RC&D website for more information.
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Bitter Root Water Forum Restoration
Improving water quality and wildlife habitat by partnering with private landowners, collaborating with the Forest Service, and securing funding to implement on the ground restoration.
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US Department of Agriculture Forest Service
USDA Forest Service
Mechanical treatments and prescribed fires means reducing the amount of hazardous fuels including vegetation which has built up to dangerous levels or changing the arrangement of these fuels in the environment.
Confronting the Wildfire Crisis
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MSU Extension Forestry
The mission of Extension Forestry is to provide education and outreach to Non-industrial Private Forest Landowners (family forest owners) around Montana. It is estimated that more than 50,000 family forest owners own 4 million acres of forestland in the state.
Extension Forestry provides forest landowner education programs ranging from core Forest Stewardship Planning Workshops to topic specific workshops like Windbreaks/Living Snowfences, Alternative Forest Management Practices, Wildfire Hazard Reduction, and Tree Pruning & Care.
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