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Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grant Solicitation 2025

Department of Forestry and Fire Protection · 85208

Eligibility details

1) Native American Tribes that are Federally recognized.2) Non-federally recognized Tribes on the California Native American Heritage Commission’s Contact List of California Native Tribes3) Tribally led non-profit with documentation.

Matching funds & resources

Source matching-funds field: Not Required.

Matching funds and leveraged resources are different requirements. Read the description and reviewed rules below before determining resource commitments.

About this opportunity

Tribal Wildfire Resilience grants fund planning and implementation projects that serve California Native American Tribes and advance wildfire resilience, forest health, and cultural use of fire. These projects address critical needs in tribal communities, and may include: Cultural and prescribed burns Creation and maintenance of shaded fuel breaks Forest and wildfire resilience projects such as dead and dying tree removal, understory thinning and/or removal, tree or other native and/or traditional vegetation plantings Forest health projects that provide benefits such as increasing biodiversity and improving access to and use of traditional foods and culturally significant species Workforce Development and training programs in fire, forestry, and related Traditional Ecological Knowledges Mapping projects Development of restoration plans, fire or forest management plans Biological and cultural surveys Environmental compliance and permitting

Funding geography: Ancestral homelands within California (as defined by the applying tribe) are eligible. The grantee must have long-term access to the land. If the grantee does not currently have legal jurisdiction or ownership of the project area, then there must be a long-term access or co-management agreement for the grantee tribe for that land. The application will have a section to describe this.

Funding instrument: Grant. Issuing jurisdiction: California. This is not a geographic eligibility determination.