OpportunityTitle: R9 BIL State Capacity Program for Invasive Species (Non-Federal Lands)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Who can apply: All Eastern Region (R9) State departments that participate in the USFS Cooperative Forest Health Protection and Forest Health Monitoring programs are eligible.
Description: States need to build and maintain capacity around invasive species work to accomplish the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law&apos;s (BIL) broader ecosystem restoration objective and the invasive species provision. For example, funds may be used to conduct forest health management, including detection surveys, monitoring, evaluation, prevention, and suppression of insect, disease, and invasive plant outbreaks on non-Federal lands to strategically sustain the health of forest ecosystems or tree species with high ecological value. tes need to build and maintain capacity around invasive species work to accomplish BIL&#8217;s broader ecosystem restoration objec ti ve and t he invasive species provision . For example, funds may be used to conduct forest health management, including detection surveys, monitoring, evaluation, prevention, and suppression of insect, disease, and invasive plant outbreaks on non - Federal lands to strategically sustain the health of forest ecosystems or tree specie s with high ecological value by taking stronger action in the earl y phases of the invasion curve at regional or sub - regional scales and at points of entry 1 .
GrantorContactEmailDescription: R9 Regional entomologist
GrantorContactText: David L Mausel &lt;br/&gt;Grantor &lt;br/&gt;Phone 4142677136