Landscape Restoration Applications Open
Applications must be submitted to the Nebraska NRCS by January 3, 2025.
Lincoln, Nebraska - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) serving Nebraska requests applications for the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership for Fiscal Year 2025. Applications must be submitted to the Nebraska NRCS by January 3, 2025.
This partnership enables the NRCS and the Forest Service to collaborate with states, tribes, and private landowners to invest in conservation and restoration at a large enough scale to make an impact in and beyond their communities. With federal, state, and local agencies working together, this partnership will help reduce wildfire threats, protect water quality and supply, improve wildlife habitat for at-risk species, and combat climate change.
Conservation practices eligible in Nebraska for NRCS support through this program include brush management, herbaceous weed treatment, firebreak, fuel break, prescribed grazing, prescribed burning, range planting, woody residue treatment, forest stand improvement, and pest management and tree and shrub establishment.
By helping reduce susceptibility of the Great Plains to high-intensity wildfires, this project will help keep historically underserved communities as profitable, working lands. Building on prior Joint Chiefs' Land Restoration Project successes, this effort will decrease threats to the wildland-urban interface across the Great Plains.
Landowners may be eligible if located in Blaine, Dawes, Grant, Hooker, Sioux and Thomas counties, as well as the northern portions of Sheridan County (north of the Pine Ridge) and most of Cherry County.
For more information, please contact Robin Foulk, NRCS District Conservationist in Chadron, robin.foulk@usda.gov or your local USDA service center.