Forest Health Grant

Forest Health Grant

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)
Amount: US $750,000 - US $7,000,000
Last Updated: December 09, 2025

Summary

The Forest Health Grant from CAL FIRE aims to enhance the resilience of California's forests against extreme disturbances such as wildfires and drought. This program supports landscape-scale projects focused on restoring forest health, protecting water resources, and promoting carbon storage. By funding activities that improve forest management and reforestation, CAL FIRE addresses climate change impacts while ensuring the sustainability of vital ecosystems. Eligible projects must demonstrate clear climate benefits through various management practices.

Overview

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: treatment activities, avoided future wildfire and fossil fuel use, and/or reforestation and/or growth and yield of remaining vegetation.

Eligibility

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