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Urban and Community Forestry Grants

CAL FIRE, the Strategic Growth Council announce the offering of Urban and Community Forestry Grants for the 2010/2011 fiscal year.

These grants will be for activities that expand urban forests and improve or enhance urban forest management and knowledge. Please see the two websites listed below for information about the grant programs for tree planting (Green Trees For The Golden State), tree inventories, urban forest management plans, urban forest education, and innovative urban forestry projects (Leading Edge). A new program, Leafing Out, can fund any of these previous activities, but in smaller grant amounts. It is designed for communities and organizations that have less capacity or experience carrying out urban forestry projects.

CAL FIRE's Urban Forestry Program has endeavored to make these grant offerings user-friendly by having a central procedural guide common to all of the offerings, with requests for proposals unique to each offering. The concept application is a PDF form, four pages in length, and is submitted via email. CAL FIRE Regional Urban Foresters are available throughout the state to answer questions and provide technical assistance.

Funding of these grants is dependent upon the state budget process and upon the state's ability to sell bonds.

All grant materials and a list of available Regional Urban Foresters by geographic area can be found at the following websites:

http://www.fire.ca.gov/resource_mgt/resource_mgt_urbanforestry.php

http://www.ufei.org/grantinfo.lasso

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