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The project is a priority because it will reduce hazardous fuels along private lands and critical transportation routes, thereby protecting lives, property, and watersheds while improving emergency response capacity for communities directly adjacent to Interstate 90, a major east-west transportation corridor.

By addressing hazardous fuels on private lands and linking treatments to adjacent state and federal projects, the work will also strengthen cross boundary collaboration and enhance the effectiveness of suppression strategies.

Treatments will create defensible space, support long term forest resilience, and ensure that local communities are better prepared to withstand and recover from wildfire events.

In addition, the work directly supports the United States Forest Service mission and advances national directives, including the Presidents Executive Order, to prioritize forest management and reduce wildfire risk at scale.

Idaho Department Of Lands

THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMUNITY WILDFIRE DEFENSE GRANT IS TO ASSIST AT-RISK LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND INDIAN TRIBES WITH PLANNING FOR AND MITIGATING AGAINST THE RISK CREATED BY WILDFIRE. THERE ARE TWO PRIMARY PROJECT TYPES FOR WHICH THE GRANT PROVIDES FUNDING: THE DEVELOPMENT AND REVISING OF COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLANS (CWPP), AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROJECTS DESCRIBED IN A CWPP THAT IS LESS THAN TEN YEARS OLD. THE ACT PRIORITIZES AT-RISK COMMUNITIES THAT ARE IN AN AREA IDENTIFIED AS HAVING HIGH OR VERY HIGH WILDFIRE HAZARD POTENTIAL, ARE LOW-INCOME, AND/OR HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY A SEVERE DISASTER

10.720 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants

USFS Region 1: Northern Region (R1) [USDA - USFS]

Idaho United States

State-Wide

Community Wildfire Defense Grant 2024 (FY25) West (USDA-FS-2024-CWDG-CWSF)