USDA Announces Nearly $50 Million to Invest in Forest Products Economy

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Wood Innovations Grant Funding Opportunity: NHLA News

USDA Announces Nearly $50 Million

to Invest in Forest Products Economy

Applications Due December 1st and 15th!

The Forest Service is making $49 million in grant funding available through its Wood Innovations, Community Wood, and Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance grants. The Forest Service is seeking proposals that support crucial links between resilient, healthy forests, strong rural economies, and jobs in the forestry sector. Made possible by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, this funding will spark innovation, create new markets for wood products and renewable wood energy, and expand processing capacity.

The Forest Service is requesting proposals from eligible entities in the private, non-profit, and government sectors including Tribes, local and state governments, businesses and for-profit entities, institutions of higher education, as well as public utility, fire, conservation, and school districts, among others.

For more information continuing reading. For all information please visit the Forest Service website HERE.

How can a USDA Forest Service grant help your business?

Read the story of Patrick Lumber Manufacturing, who was awarded a Community Wood Grant.

PLM has begun work to add a sawmill at its manufacturing facility located in Philomath, Oregon. The mill is partly funded by a $1 million Community Wood Grant provided by the USDA Forest Service.

Thanks in part to a grant from the USDA Forest Service, Patrick Lumber Manufacturing’s small, portable hardwood mill will soon be replaced by a much larger facility capable of producing 150,000 board feet of mixed species hardwood lumber per month.

Grants Available ARE…

Wood Innovations Grant Funding - Due December 15, 2023

The Wood Innovations Grants Program stimulates, expands, and supports U.S. wood products markets and wood energy markets to support the long-term management of the National Forest System and other forest lands. Focus areas include mass timber, renewable wood energy, and technological development that supports hazardous fuel reduction and sustainable forest management. The deadline to apply for financial assistance is 5:00 pm local time on December 15, 2023.

Community Wood Grant Funding - Due December 15, 2023

The Community Wood Grant Program provides funding for grants to install thermally led community wood energy systems or to build innovative wood product manufacturing facilities. The Forest Service expects renewable wood energy systems installed under this program to use the most stringent control technologies. The program places extra emphasis on assisting sawmills in economically challenged areas to retool or add advanced technology. The deadline to apply for financial assistance is 5:00 pm local time on December 15, 2023.

Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance (WPIA) Grant

Funding - Due December 1, 2023

The Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance provides funding that may be used to provide support for facilities that purchase and process byproducts of ecosystem restoration projects. This includes applications to establish, reopen, retrofit, expand, or improve a sawmill or other wood-processing facility in close proximity to federal or Indian lands that need ecosystem restoration and will generate byproducts. The emphasis is on areas of unnaturally severe high fire or insect or disease infestation with high or very high priority for ecological restoration. This program is funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The deadline to apply for financial assistance is 5:00 pm local time on December 1, 2023.