Texas A&M Forest Service is now accepting grant applications for the State Fire Assistance for Mitigation – Plains Prescribed Fire Grant
Donor Name: Texas A&M Forest Service
State: Texas
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/15/2022
Details:
Prescribed fire is the planned application of a low-intensity fire to the landscape by fire and fuel specialist. The practice is a strategic, planned land management tool that uses fire to achieve set goals and are planned in accordance with applicable laws, policies and regulations.
Just some of the many benefits that prescribed fire offers to rangeland ecosystems include an increase in overall vegetation health, enhancement of wildlife habitat and suppression of non-native species.
These grants will be used to conduct cool season prescribed burns – reducing the overall amount of vegetation on the landscape so it doesn’t build up over time becoming hazardous fuel.
Priority will be given to treatment sites that provide protection to the highest risk communities based on the Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal, are located near homes and contain ecosystems that will benefit from prescribed fire.
Eligibility Criteria
Funding will be provided to landowners and communities that have been or may be threatened by wildland fire, with a target of reducing hazardous fuel loads. Properties near communities in the panhandle, northwest, west and south Texas at a risk for loss during a wind-driven wildfire are eligible.
For more information, visit Texas A&M Forest Service.