Sacramento – Today, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) announced receiving $5 million to support the California Forest Improvement Program (CFIP). This funding comes as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Inflation Reduction Act funding to strengthen financial incentives for private forest landowners to manage their forests sustainably and to permanently conserve private forests in partnership with states.
CAL FIRE’s CFIP will deliver technical assistance and direct cost share payments to support the implementation of forest resilience and climate mitigation practices across 2,458 acres of private nonindustrial forest land with this additional funding.
"Forests provide innumerable benefits to people and communities, and private forestlands make up more than half of all forests in the U.S.,” said United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. "Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, we are helping to provide the resources private forest landowners need to keep working forests working so that future generations of Americans will be able to enjoy all the benefits they provide."
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