American Recovery and Reinvestment Act grants: summary of projects

Abstract

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) received a grant to create or retain jobs that help implement high-priority forest restoration and fuels mitigation projects. A portion of the funds also will create and retain jobs in Colorado's wood products industries. The CSFS also received a second grant to help fund jobs affiliated with developing and implementing Community Wildfire Protection Plans. Interested organizations competed for the grants by writing project proposals, per guidelines and requirements set forth in Requests for Proposals. Interdisciplinary review panels evaluated the project proposals and selected the following to receive Recovery Act funding.