State, Private and Tribal Forestry

CFP is a competitive grant program that provides financial assistance to tribal entities, local governments, and qualified conservation non-profit organizations to acquire and establish community forests that provide community benefits. Community benefits include economic benefits through active forest management, clean water, wildlife habitat, educational opportunities, and public access for recreation. 

The SPTF Conservation Education Program helps people of all ages to understand, appreciate, and conserve our country’s natural resources. State, Private, and Tribal Forestry Conservation Education assistance enhances existing state and local programs and strengthens partnerships between education organizations and natural resource managers.

SPTF manages the cooperative fire programs (grants, agreements, and federal excess property) related to the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy for the states of Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, western Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. The programs are a collaboration between all stakeholders to make meaningful progress toward the updated three goals of the Cohesive Strategy:

1. Restore and Maintain Landscapes
2. Fire Adapted Communities
3. Response to Fire

Forest Health Protection (FHP) provides technical and financial assistance related to forest and range disturbance agents, including native and non-native insects, pathogens, and invasive plants. We assist federal and tribal land managers directly and cooperate with State Forest Health specialists who assist state and private land managers. Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program is a national program delivered by Federal and State specialists to determine the status, changes, and trends in indicators of forest condition on an annual basis. 

The SPTF Forest Legacy Program conserves and retains private forestlands of regional or national significance that are threatened with conversion to non-forest uses. The program assures traditional uses of private forestlands and public values are protected for future generations. The purposes of Forest Legacy easements are to prevent fragmentation and conversion of productive forestland, maintain traditional land uses, and protect significant environmental values on private lands.

The SPTF Forest Stewardship program provides technical assistance to owners of non-industrial private forestland not currently under management and to those who wish to increase their management activities. The information and assistance provided to landowners is intended to help them understand actions they might take to manage, enhance, and protect the productivity of timber, fish and wildlife habitat, water quality, wetlands, recreational value, and aesthetics.

The Forest Health Protection Invasive Plant Program works through partners to support the implementation of each state’s invasive plant strategic plan that identifies priority landscapes and priority invasive plant species.

The Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Program is a competitive grant program that promotes collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes and furthers priorities identified in Forest Action Plans or equivalent restoration strategy. 

The pesticide use management and coordination program works primarily with national forest and regional office staffs to aid with implementing Forest Service pesticide use management and coordination policy and ensure NFS complies with federal and state pesticide regulations. The regional pesticide use coordinator also aids with environmental analyses and risk assessments related to the use of pesticides.

The Tribal Relations Program advises Forest Service Line Officers and Staff and collaborates with federal agencies, tribal governments, intertribal organizations, and others to ensure applicable laws, regulations and polices are met. This unique relationship with our American Indian neighbors helps to assist in the development and implementation of the Forest Service interests while establishing a mutual and beneficial partnership.

The UCF Program works with state partners and community tree groups by investing from the ground up in communities. Urban Forestry is the science and practice of planting, maintaining, monitoring, and managing the populations of trees in urban areas to ensure the provision of the benefits these trees and forests produce for people.

The Woods Innovation Program fosters the expanded manufacture and use of wood and biomass products to support forest management and local economies.