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Forest Stewardship Program

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

10.678

Program objective

Using existing State, Federal, and private sector forestry experts, promote and enable the long-term active management of non-industrial private and other non-federal forest land to sustain the multiple values and uses that depend on such lands.

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

    26,500,000 will be covered by Forest Stewardship Plans 25,138,566 acres are covered by Forest Stewardship Plans

  2. 2017

    21,600,000 acres are covered by Forest Stewardship Plans

  3. 2024

    State forestry agency partners assisted 230,000 landowners in the management of their woodlands. They educated 418,000 landowners to help them better understand their land and what they can do to care for it. Agency partners developed 11,400 new or updated Forest Stewardship plans that cover 2.6 million acres. They also developed practice plans for management activities implemented on 2.4 million acres.

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 Service Manual Titles 3000 and 3200 and the Forest Stewardship Program National Standards and Guidelines.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Agricultural

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Farmer/Rancher/Agriculture Producer
  • Land/Property Owner
  • Local
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • Rural
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources