New Mexico Counties, in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management New Mexico State Office, is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Wildfire Risk Reduction Program for Rural Communities. The grant program assists at-risk communities throughout New Mexico in reducing their risk from wildland fire on non-federal lands. Funding for this program is provided by the National Fire Plan through the Department of the Interior/Bureau of Land Management for communities in the wildland-urban interface and is intended to directly benefit communities that may be impacted by wildland fire initiating from or spreading to BLM public land.
Funding categories include:
- CWPP updates up to $20,000/project
- Education and outreach activities up to $15,000/project
- Hazardous fuels reduction projects up to $75,000/project
The program information packet and applications are located on the NMC website: https://www.nmcounties.org/services/programs/
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