Program
Resources
Pre-Application Deadline
Applications Due
For full invited proposals
Total Funding
Funding Source
Maximum Award
Award Details
Awards by Project Type:
- Wildfire and Forest Research (General): $500,000 – $900,000
- Demonstration State Forest Research: $500,000 – $900,000
- Science Synthesis and Tool Development: $400,000 – $750,000
- Special Topics Research: $400,000 – $750,000
Eligibility
Public and other nonprofit universities and affiliated academic institutions, local agencies (e.g. counties and special districts), state agencies, federal agencies, Native American Tribes; private forest landowners; and non-profit 501(c)(3) organizations (e.g. fire safe councils, and land trusts).
Eligible Activities
Priority Research Topics:
- Recovery, restoration, regeneration and reforestation strategies following wildfires and other disturbances in an altered future climate.
- Implementation, effectiveness, impacts, and tradeoffs of current and alternative management strategies to reduce unwanted wildfire impacts to communities, improve hydrologic functions including water quality and supply, improve air quality, sustain and promote biodiversity, mitigate impacts of pests, pathogens, and invasive species, and/or increase beneficial fire effects.
- Methods of ecological monitoring to continually evaluate effectiveness, impacts and benefits of vegetation treatments at various scales.
- Community resilience to wildfires and other ecological disturbances under current and future climate conditions.
- Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and Tribal forest and fire management, especially research by Tribal organizations or Indigenous researchers.
- Forest products and utilization of forest residues related to fuel reduction and forest health treatments.
- Improved prediction of wildland fire spread, behavior, severity, and potential impacts, particularly under extreme weather conditions and/or within the wildland-urban interface.
- Utilizing novel applications of FireSat Quick Beam Instrument data to monitor fire activity and address ecological questions related to fire effects.
Duration
Notable Requirements
CAL FIRE will avoid seeking a limited waiver of sovereign immunity when possible and will strive to notify applicants early in the grant application review process if it is anticipated a limited waiver of sovereign immunity will be necessary.Original research may be based on empirical data (i.e., collection and analysis of field or remotely sensed data), model development or application, technology development or testing, or any combination thereof. Development and testing of new technologies are allowed but must be associated with formal scientific investigation and/or hypothesis testing typical of academic research and provide results appropriate for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Projects may physically manipulate resources (e.g. thinning, prescribed burning, etc.) in an experimental fashion, but any ground-disturbing activity must comply with all pertinent federal, state and local regulations, including CEQA and NEPA.
Preferences
Concept Proposal scoring criteria: Demonstrated need for research (30 points), Fit to priority research topics (40 points), and Feasibility (30 points) for 100 total possible points.
How to Apply
Applicants will use the Euna Grants Portal platform to submit their applications.