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Forest Health Protection

Program Information

Popular name

N/A

Program Number

10.680

Program objective

Protect and manage non-Federal forest and tree resources from damaging forest insects, disease causing agents, and invasive plants; develop/improve forest health protection technologies; and monitor the health of our nation's forests. To assist State Foresters, State Agriculture or Plant Regulatory Officials, equivalent State officials, or other official representatives, subdivisions of states, agencies, institutions (public and private), organizations (profit or nonprofit), and individuals on non-Federal lands. Activities include: conducting surveys to detect and assess insect, disease, invasive plant and other stressors; monitoring and reporting on the health of forests and trees; recommending measures to prevent, retard, slow the spread, control, suppress or eradicate incipient, potential, threatening or emergency forest and tree pests; planning, organizing, directing, and performing such measures; providing technical and scientific information, advice, and related assistance; developing applied methods and technology to improve management of forest health; providing information on pesticides and their use; promoting implementation of appropriate silvicultural or management techniques to improve forest health; and taking other actions deemed necessary to accomplish the objectives and purposes of the Forest Health Protection program. Assistance to tribal lands held in trust by the United States Government is provided directly by the Forest Service, and thus are not included in this cooperative program. However, other tribal lands, such as Alaska Native Corporation Lands, that are not held in trust are included.

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. 2023

    $35,841,726 in total funding to support various Forest Health related projects spanning 55 states and international locations.

  2. 2024

    In FY24, the Forest Health Protection Special Project Programs funded 51 projects. The total amounts allocated for each program are: $962,878 for STDP, $442,962 for EM, $441,186 for BCIFP, and $184,974 for FSPIAP projects. These programs provided a valuable mechanism for collaboration and engagement with principal investigators from within the Forest Service and other federal agencies, state departments of agriculture and forestry, universities, private entities, and international partners.

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 Title 3400 is available online, in all Forest Service offices, and State Forestry agency offices.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Agricultural

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments
  • Local
  • Other public institution/organization
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • Profit organization
  • Public nonprofit institution/organization
  • State
  • U.S. Territories

Additional resources