California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)

Please click "Apply" above if you are applying for a Forest Health and/or Post-Fire Reforestation and Regeneration grant. 

If you want to apply for a Tribal Wildfire Resilience Planning and/or Implementation grant, please go back to the Forest Health (ca.gov) web page and click the link to the Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grant Solicitation link.

The Forest Health Program addresses the risk to California’s forests from extreme disturbance events including catastrophic wildfires, drought, and pest mortality. These events are the result of climate change, forest overcrowding, past land management practices, and an increasing number of people living in the wildland and urban interface.

CAL FIRE's Forest Health Program awards funding to landscape-scale land management projects that achieve the following objectives:
• Restore forest health and disaster resilience to California’s forests.
• Protect upper watersheds where California's water supply originates.
• Promote long-term storage of carbon in forest trees and soils.
• Minimize the loss of forest carbon from unnaturally severe disturbance events.
• Further the goals of the California Forest Carbon Plan, California’s Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan and AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan

CAL FIRE seeks to significantly increase fuels management, fire reintroduction, and reforestation of forests degraded by overcrowding, drought, pest infestation, and catastrophic fire. All Forest Health projects must have climate benefits from 1) treatment activities, 2) avoided future wildfire and fossil fuel use, and/or 3) reforestation and/or growth and yield of remaining vegetation. Applicants are required to submit supporting documentation to enable CAL FIRE staff to validate benefits using the Forest Health Quantification Methodology and Calculator Tool developed by CAL FIRE and the California Air Resources Board (CARB).

This Fiscal Year 2022-23 solicitation includes four different grant types:
• Forest Health (please refer to Appendix B)
• Tribal Wildfire Resilience Implementation (please refer to Appendix A)
• Tribal Wildfire Resilience Planning (please refer to Appendix A)
• Forest Health Post-Fire Reforestation and Regeneration (please refer to Appendix C)

Applicants applying for multiple grant types must submit separate applications for each type.

For more details, review the Forest Health Grant Guidelines posted under the "Files" tab of this solicitation and on the CAL FIRE Forest Health Grants webpage.