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Forest Legacy Program

Program Information

Popular name

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Program Number

10.676

Program objective

To effectively identify and protect environmentally important forest areas threatened by conversion to nonforest uses, through the use of conservation easements or fee simple purchase. The Forest Legacy Program (FLP) is a voluntary private land conservation partnership between the Forest Service, participating States, land trusts, private landowners, and others. The Program works with State partners and operates on a willing seller and willing buyer basis and is completely nonregulatory in its approach. No eminent domain authority or adverse condemnation is authorized for this Program.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2016

    Project 90,000 acres will be protected via conservation easement or fee simple tract purchases 106,143 acres protected via conservation easement or fee simple transactions.

  2. 2017

    95,000 acres protected via conservation easement or fee simple track purchases.

  3. 2024

    In FY2024, 27 tracts in 15 states totaling 89,989 acres were completed.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

Forest Legacy Program Implementation Guidelines (2019)

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Agricultural

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer
  • State

Additional resources