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Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention

Program Information

Popular name

SWERI

Program Number

10.694

Program objective

(1) To enhance the capacity to develop, transfer, apply, monitor, and regularly update practical science-based forest restoration treatments that will reduce the risk of severe wildfires, and improve the health of dry forest and woodland ecosystems in the interior West; (2) to synthesize and adapt scientific findings from conventional research programs to the implementation of forest and woodland restoration on a landscape scale; (3) to facilitate the transfer of interdisciplinary knowledge required to understand the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of wildfire on ecosystems and landscapes; (4) to require the Institutes established under this Act to collaborate with Federal agencies to use ecological restoration and wildfire treatments; (5) to assist land managers in restoration-based applications and new management technologies; (6) to provide technical assistance to collaborative efforts by affected entities; and (7) to assist Federal and non-Federal land managers in providing information to the public on the role of fire and fire management.

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.

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Additional program information

  1. 2016

    On-going technical assistance On-going technical assistance

  2. 2017

    On-going technical assistance

  3. 2024

    Several awards yielded notable accomplishments, including: an assessment of the governance of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP); the advancement of understanding and practice of collaborative, collective decision-making and action-taking utilizing geospatial data and decision-support products in the arena of wildland fire management; a collaboration with practitioners and community members in New Mexico to develop participatory frameworks that support community-level wildfire mitigation and post-fire restoration planning; the quantification of the ecological impacts of watershed and riparian restoration in the Southwest through collaboration with community partners; an evaluation of the ecological impacts of forest restoration and fuel reduction treatments that have been conducted in New Mexico as part of the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program; and the refinement of management of mixed conifer forests by creating statistically based forest classifications.

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.

National Fire Plan; the report entitled “Protecting People and Sustaining Resources in Fire-Adapted Ecosystems – A Cohesive Strategy” (65 Fed. Reg. 67480); and the report entitled “10-Year Comprehensive Strategy: A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment” of the Western Governor’s Association.

Program details

Categories & sub-categories

Agricultural

Eligible applicants

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Other public institution/organization
  • State

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