Cal Fire is offering grants of $250,000 to $3 million to federally recognized tribes and tribal nonprofits in California to support traditional ecological knowledge about forest management and fuel reduction projects through cultural burns.
For the second year, Cal Fire is opening a call for Tribal Wildfire Resilience Grants.Awards between $250,000 and $3 million will be granted to federally recognized tribes or tribal nonprofits within the state of California. The grants will go to support the curation of traditional ecological knowledge about native forest management and its dissemination through education programs and tribal stewardship plans, as well as fuel reduction projects through cultural burns on ancestral lands.
The 2025 grant guidelines were shared with the public in a webinar Tuesday, while three uncontained fires raged in Los Angeles County.The funding made available to tribes is intended for groups to do fire resilience-related work on their land. For thousands of years, California tribes lit low-intensity fires to shape the landscape in ways that support biodiversity, promote the growth of desired plant species, and maintain native species. Cultural burns are done ceremoniously and respectfully. Native people consider nature to be animate, to possess a soul, rather than being a commercial resource.This attitude toward the land caught the attention of state legislators after nature delivered its wrath in the devastating fires of 2020. Following decades of policies that prioritized fire suppression, the state experienced a record-breaking wildfire season.Three of California's six largest fires in modern history burned at the same time, destroying thousands of buildings, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes and exposing millions of residences to dangerously unhealthy air. More than 4 million acres burned across the state in 2020, double the previous record.In 2021, the state began to pivot its approach to forest maintenance by expanding prescribed fires on 500,000 acres of state-owned lands annually by 2025. The wildfire resilience grants announced Tuesday are part of that $2.7 billion investment through Gov. Gavin Newsom's Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Pla
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