Provide outreach and education, technical assistance and financial assistance to private forest landowners in the Florida panhandle who were impacted during Hurricane Michael. Project will engage 150 private forest landowners through two workshops, plant 300 acres of longleaf pine and enhance an additional 800 acres with prescribed fire, thinning and other management treatments.
NFWF Grant Profile
Conservation Program(s):
Longleaf Stewardship Fund
Project Title: Longleaf Pine Hurricane Recovery on Private Lands (FL)
Organization:
Florida Forest Service
Project ID:
1903.19.064336
Description:
Award Amount:
$39094.40
Location:
Priority for assistance will be for landowners in Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla, and Washington counties based on LIT, State Action Plan, and America's Longleaf Conservation Plan priority areas. Irma and Nate impacted landowners are eligible as well.