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Collaborative Forest Restoration

Program Information

Popular name

CFRP

Program Number

10.679

Program objective

The purposes of the grants are: to promote healthy watersheds and reduce the threat of large, high intensity wildfires, insect infestation, and disease in the forests in New Mexico; to improve the functioning of forest ecosystems and enhance plant and wildlife biodiversity by reducing the unnaturally high number and density of small diameter trees on Federal, Tribal, State, County, and Municipal forest lands; to improve communication and joint problem solving among individuals and groups who are interested in restoring the diversity and productivity of forested watersheds in New Mexico; to improve the use of, or add value to, small diameter trees; to encourage sustainable communities and sustainable forests through collaborative partnerships, whose objectives are forest restoration; and to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate ecologically sound forest restoration techniques.

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

    The CFRP Panel reviewed and scored 23 grant proposals and submitted a recommendation to the Secretary to fund 9 projects. Since the CFRP began in 2011, the CFRP Panel has reviewed 533 proposals and 204 Federal grants have been awarded. Over 61,700 acres of forest will have been restored in New Mexico upon completion of these projects. Approximately 580 partners have been involved in CFRP projects and over 820 jobs have been created in 20 counties across New Mexico.

  2. 2017

    The CFRP Panel reviewed and scored 15 grant proposals and submitted a recommendation to the Secretary to fund 10 projects.

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.

The authorizing legislation (Public Law 106-393 Title VI), a list of the members of the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Technical Advisory Panel, The Charter for the Technical Advisory Panel, The Technical Advisory Panel Recommendations, The Request for Applications, Project Summaries for funded activities, a List of Forest Service Contacts, and multi-party monitoring guidelines can be found on the website for the Southwestern Region of the Forest Service at www.fs.usda.gov/goto/r3/cfrp.