Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: 15-Year Accomplishment Report
This accomplishment report highlights the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program's impact of investing in lands managed by the Forest Service. The CFLRP accomplishments over the last 15 years are driven by place-based, multiyear funding, and include improvements across 6.7 million acres from fuels reduction, tree planting, trail maintenance, stream restoration, invasive plant treatments, and fish passage. This publication is adapted from a report submitted to Congress in June 2024.
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Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Dashboard
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) was first authorized by Congress in 2009 to advance collaborative, landscape-scale approaches to restoration for multiple outcomes – reducing wildfire risk, enhancing forest and watershed health, and providing benefits to local communities. CFLRP Project Landscapes are selected by the Secretary of Agriculture through a competitive…
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Common ground in the Rio Chama
The essence of the Southwest may be summarized in one word – Querencia. A sense of place where one feels safe, at home; where they can draw strength from communities tied to a landscape that provides resources for livelihoods and connections to the land that may not be understood well in other parts of the US…
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Landscape Scale Restoration Funded Projects
The West Virginia landscape from atop the highest point in the state – Spruce Knob mountain. (USDA Forest Service photo by Preston Keres)
Landscape Scale Restoration projects reach across management jurisdictions and address large-scale issues like reducing the risk of catastrophic wildfires…
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Cross-boundary partnership brings together lands and people to prevent future wildfires
Forest Service and partners during a field tour on the San Juan National Forest. (The Forest Stewards Guild photo by Esme Cadiente)
Across the arid Southwest, prolonged drought, increased fuel loading and past fire exclusion left many communities at risk for catastrophic wildfire."We've been…