Stewarding Native Lands

Our project will assist tribes with native plant restoration to improve support of pollinator populations threatened by climate change to bolster the health of Native people and lands. Tribes will be assisted by capacity building, onsite technical assistance, and delivery of plants and equipment.

This project will improve Mooretown’s forest stewardship through purchasing high-pressure water pumps and Compressed Air Foam Systems (CAFS) for our existing equipment, which will allow for safer operations during forestry activities throughout the year.

This project will build capacity for Dot Lake Village’s forestry program by acquiring essential equipment and safety tools to support sustainable forest management, stewardship activities, and safe access to tribal lands for ongoing maintenance, thinning, and resource protection.

This project strengthens Dena’ina and Alutiiq stewardship by acquiring forestry equipment to care for Tribal forest homelands, reduce wildfire risk, and protect lands that sustain cultural lifeways, subsistence traditions, and community well-being for future generations.

This project will support efforts to restore our forests through the purchase of essential equipment including a truck, fire pump and forestry saw needed for prescribed fires and restoration purposes.

This project increases capacity for two Pit River tribal forestry crews located 200 miles apart to manage our 3.4 million acres of ancestral homelands through the purchase of a side-by-side to access high-risk fuel areas, essential supplies and equipment to manage forest health.

This project strengthens the Tribe’s capacity to sustainably manage and harvest forest resources by improving operational efficiency and access. It supports forest health, enhances timber value, and enabling the Tribe to manage its lands and steward resources for future generations.

The purpose of all CHIRP activities is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate Nisenan culture. This project supports the purchase of essential forestry equipment for CHIRP's recently formed Tribally-led Land Stewardship Crew, which is designed to return beneficial fire to our Tribal landscapes.

Sponsorship for the 2026 Pueblo of Acoma Earth Day, Sacred Power of Sacred Land

Our project will kickstart ecological monitoring on both privately owned buffalo habitat and expand onto Tribal land through the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative. Our project will also support WRTBI operations tied to the Science Department.

Our project will provide quality buffalo meat to support community health while advancing buffalo restoration. Through education and outreach, we will engage future generations, strengthen cultural and spiritual connections, support ecological restoration, and create employment opportunities.

This project will support the development of Rocky Boy Buffalo Project's community-based visitor center where people can learn about the Rocky Boy Buffalo Project and the cultural, ecological, and economic importance of buffalo restoration.

This grant will support the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative’s fee simple acquisition of a parcel within the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation adjacent to Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative’s property. This land will support expansion of Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative’s buffalo pasture.

The purpose of all CHIRP activities is to preserve, protect, and perpetuate Nisenan culture. To these ends, CHIRP has formed a Tribally-led Land Stewardship Crew to return beneficial fire to our Tribal landscapes. This project serves to increase the capacity of the Crew through staffing support.

This grant will sponsor the 2026 National Conference and Southwest, Great Lakes, Great Plains, Pacific, and Southeast Regional Conferences.

This project will support wildlife habitat enhancement, environmental outreach to and education for tribal youth, and tribal engagement in wildlife connectivity and corridors.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) reassert Tribal governance across CIV's traditional territory, 2) protect salmon, old-growth forests, and traditional foods through a community-guided Tribal Stewardship Plan, and 3) build capacity for pursuing U.S. Forest Service funding opportunities and agreements.

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska will establish wildlife forage plantings on tribal lands to strengthen habitat, improve deer and game nutrition, and build Tribal capacity in natural resource stewardship through hands-on monitoring, youth engagement, and data-driven conservation.

Our project will support the time of Kawerak's Tribal Research Coordinator create, distribute, and promote the Tribal Research Protocols and the newly developed Research Priorities of Kawerak-region Tribes to enhance Tribal Research Sovereignty..

The ultimate purpose is to strengthen Nooksack internal capacity to engage with USFS programs; expand government-to-government collaboration; and support co-stewardship and future partnership agreements that protect culturally significant ancestral lands for future generations.

The purpose of this project is to process and distribute logs into firewood for Crow families, while providing winter employment to tribal members previously engaged in wildfire firefighting. This effort strengthens community, and creates local workforce opportunities tied to land stewardship.

Increase the capacity of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians to engage with offshore wind planning in the Gulf of Maine and advance its own local community / governmental energy sustainability initiatives, projects, goals, and objectives.

This proposed project will remove invasive non-native trees and destroy invasive non-native smooth brome grass areas and replant the entire 660 acres to a diverse mix of native grasses and forbs.

This project will support the implementation of Bison, grassland ecosystem, and food systems education and outreach efforts. The project will also support the RBBP management board in holding its strategic planning meetings. The Project will support the RBBP employee development/training.

Our project would resolve community concerns regarding Brucellosis within the elk herds around Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative at the same time deploy GPS tracking collars or ear tags on the elk to increase the understanding of elk movements along the Wind River.

This project will provide a staff position to the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Indian Township to act under the direction of the Chief and the Tribal Council. This staffer will consult governments (State/Federal) and labor/environmental allies on planning and policy processes for clean energy.

Our project empowers southwest Tribal Nations to protect and manage sacred sites and cultural resources by strengthening their capacity to engage in federal processes, advance energy sovereignty, and ensure development aligns with Tribal priorities and values.

This project will grow adaptive capacity to increase civic action to plant the rain to retain water within the watershed to minimize erosion, restore native vegetation/habitats, and increase soil moisture, to drive action toward preparing for rising temperatures within the Colorado River Basin.

This project will provide staff support to the Penobscot Nation’s Department of Natural Resources, in order to consult governments and labor/environmental allies on planning and policy processes regarding offshore wind and clean energy advancement.

This project will support the restoration of Willows, Mesquite and Cottonwood vegetation in riparian areas to reduce hazardous fuels and erosion that pose wildfire threats in recreation areas, increase habitat conservation and enhance water quality.

We connect Apache people and other Native and non-Native allies to protect Chi’chil Biłdagoteel (also known as Oak Flat), a sacred site for Apache people and many other Indigenous people, from copper mining.

Our project's purpose is to stop helium extraction and a hydrogen pipeline in our communities on the Navajo reservation.

The project will support information gathering, planning, and decision making by Tribal leaders and experts with the ultimate goals of setting water quality standards and outlining a collaborative water monitoring program for Bears Ears National Monument.

This project will support the planning, reimagining, and implementation of conservation easements to perpetually protect the culturally significant buffalo habitat within and adjacent to the Wind River Indian Reservation, while strengthening land sovereignty for the respective tribal communities.

The project supports the Southern Ute Indian Tribe’s (Tribe) natural resources through low-tech process-based restoration that enhances riverine processes, expands riparian habitat, reduce nonpoint source pollution, improve water quality and strengthen Tribal Climate resiliency.

This project will advance collaborative fisheries research through the promotion and advocacy of the use of Skipper Science with fishery partners, and create and implement a policy for a subsistence food security monitoring program.

Restore native riparian vegetation, remove invasive species, and improve habitat for plants, wildlife, and aquatic species in and around Pasture Canyon Reservoir to strengthen ecological health, cultural use, and long-term watershed resilience.

This project empowers Molokaʻi youth through ʻāina-based education, art, and cultural leadership while strengthening organizational capacity and digital storytelling. We intend to protect ancestral knowledge and ongoing stewardship of ʻāina, kai, and community well-being for future generations.

People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute) is a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and descendants of the Fort McDermitt Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock Tribes working in coalition with allies to protect our ancestral homelands.

Medicine Fish Corporation will celebrate their recently approved 550-acre expansion and introduction of 19 new buffalo to Menominee homelands

Our project will strengthen SM’s organizational capacity through strategic planning, staff development, and travel support—ensuring our Native-led nonprofit can sustain and scale programs in food sovereignty, renewable energy, and climate resilience to serve Molokai’s community for generations.

This project will support Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians (BVBMI) to enact a cultural conservation easement on a 6,500-acre portion of their ancestral land. BVBMI plans to use a cultural conservation easement to strengthen connection and access to land and strengthen community.

This project will support the Rappahannock Tribe to develop a conservation easement template that respects Tribal Sovereignty and encourages tribes to negotiate when using an easement for land back. This template will support the rematriation of 200 acres of tribal land bordering Fones Cliffs.

This project will support the use of conservation easements to permanently protect the subsistence and conservation values of approximately 80,000 acres owned by Igiugig Native Corporation. The acres identified for protection are of both subsistence and cultural significance to the Tribe.

The Protecting Ancestral Wisdom project will preserve, maintain, protect and offer services that better our tribal lands and communities to overcome the erasure of the Original People of Texas - the Esto’k Gna.

This project strengthens co-management of Alaska’s migratory birds by fostering collaboration, shared understanding & trust among Tribal, federal, and state partners, ensuring sustainable, culturally grounded subsistence practices and long-term stewardship of Alaska’s vital migratory bird resources.

Our project will support the eight Ahtna Tribes in their Stewardship Planning for lands within the Ahtna Traditional Territory.

This project will support Molokai Heritage Trust to implement an easement on newly acquired coastal lands of significant value to the Hawaiian community to permanently protect land while codifying and upholding existing spiritual, cultural, and subsistence practices.

The ultimate purpose is to strengthen our organizational infrastructure to sustain and grow programming rooted in Lakota values, ensuring long-term capacity to support community priorities in land stewardship, youth leadership, and cultural revitalization across our homelands.

The purpose is to strengthen Dot Lake Village’s capacity to prevent and respond to wildfires through strategic planning, training, and partnership development, while advancing that protect Tribal lands, subsistence resources, and community health through sustainable forestry and emergency readiness.

To consult with USFS on the Tahoe National Forest and El Dorado National Forest to secure funding to engage in tribal consultation and contracting.

The purpose is to expand MGIHA’s internal capacity to access and manage U.S. Forest Service funding—supporting Tribal-led restoration, cultural stewardship, and climate resilience through strategic planning, funding alignment, and system readiness across MGBOMI homelands.

Support capacity building, due diligence, and transaction support for a land return project and enable a strategic response for future opportunities and threats.

To support Chilkat Indian Village (Klukwan)'s intergovernmental advocacy and legal strategy efforts to defend our traditional territory, pursue #landback, and assert Tribal governance and protection of the Jilḵáat Aani Ka Héeni (the Chilkat Valley Watershed).

Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe proposes a project that retains access to ancestral Tribal lands, increasing forest management to enable staff to build capacity within timberland productivity, management, silviculture, marketing, and protect cultural forest resources.

The purpose is to build Mattaponi Tribe capacity in grant writing, management, and strategic planning to develop forestry management plans based in traditional land stewardship processes and TEK, to enhance environmental health and climate adaptation for future tribe land endowment.

Our goal is to increase the capacity of our staff to be pursue partnerships, funding, and strategically plan for the benefit of our forested ancestral lands and for the Tribal nation through training on grant seeking, writing, and management.

This program supports nearly 4,000 Tribal members while building the Tribe’s organizational capacity to engage with federal partners, manage natural resources, and sustain long-term programming in environmental stewardship through a sustainable food systems.

We are committed to revitalizing Nitsitapii (the Real People) ways of knowing, increasingly recognized as vital to climate resilience. We work to restore balance to the land and its inhabitants, leading efforts in historical trauma healing through reconnection and access to land-based practices.

The Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission will utilize legal representation as we continue to uphold rural subsistence rights in Alaska, while also upholding the participation of local people, elected by the Tribes, in the co-management of Kuskokwim salmon.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) expand Tribal capacity through a Firewood & Resilience Program Coordinator, 2) reduce hazardous fuels on Kiowa lands, and 3) ensure sustainable firewood access for heating, disaster resilience, and cultural continuity.

Establish a sustainable, tribally owned firewood program on under-managed fee and trust lands to improve local forest health, support Tribal members, and create new self-sustaining economic opportunities. Develop partnerships with the Forest Service, National Forest Foundation, and Wood for Life.

Our project will support the reintegration of tribal traditional uses to Santa Fe National Forest. The area of focus will be the 45,000 acre section of the national forest that was illegally taken from the Pueblo of Nambé in 1905.

Our purpose is to 1) expand the Tribe's capacity to implement prescribed fire, habitat restoration and other natural resource management on Tribal lands, 2) enhance participation in regional restoration efforts, 3) participate in habitat restoration decision-making with local partners

Establish a LiDAR-based forest inventory and growth modeling system to establish an accurate baseline dataset that enables complex economic, ecological and cultural analysis to guide strategic management decisions relating to conventional and emerging carbon, water and biodiversity markets.

Our project will increase capacity of acreage treated within Siletz Tribal lands for cultural and prescribed fire, and begin research into a new carbon sequestration market through prescribed burning by blending traditional ecological practices, soil science and sustainable forest management.

We will conduct a feasibility study is to assess the ecological health of our forest lands and evaluate sustainable, income-generating opportunities that ensure long-term forest stewardship and economic viability.

The Salamatof Tribe Capacity Building & Forest Innovations Planning Project is designed to improve and promote forest health through active forest management on Tribal lands and a long-term plan for the development of marketable forest products.

Our project will implement sustainable forest management through selective harvesting, replanting, and biodiversity protection while exploring carbon and forest product markets. This strengthens the Dot Lake tribal economy, supports Native-led stewardship, and promotes long-term forest health.

Purchase essential equipment and supplies for logging and forest monitoring operations. Activities will integrate modern tools, such as GPS mapping and drone surveys, with traditional stewardship values, ensuring environmental and cultural sustainability to support the Harvest to Home initiative.

Conduct a feasibility study of the Lake Talawanda watershed to improve water quality, collect baseline data and enhance land use for the benefit of Choctaw Nation, tribal members and near by community.

The Los Coyotes Band of Indians will establish a culturally informed, regenerative and less harmful economic development through utilizing the natural resources of its tribal trust lands through forestry and other agribusiness focused pursuits.

This project will establish a Section 17 tribally chartered enterprise to produce biochar from invasive forest fuels, integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge, reduce forest fire risk, create skilled jobs, and generate long-term economic and ecological benefits for the Pueblo of Cochiti.

Mining takes place in rural places which is isolating. The Indigenous Caucus was founded to provide space for Indigenous participants of WMAN to build collective power to address mining and support communities that are protecting water/land/air/wildlife/communities and Indigenous rights.

This project supports the restoration of buffalo and native grasslands in the Southern Plains to revitalize Indigenous foodways, strengthen land stewardship, and rebuild a buffalo-based economy rooted in cultural sovereignty, ecological balance, and community well-being.

This project will build stewardship capacity for Tikahtnu Tribes by hiring an Environmental Monitoring contractor position to support intertribal collaboration, manage internships, support environmental monitoring, & sustain volunteer-led efforts. The grant will be leveraged into additional funding.

To restore and strengthen reciprocal relationships between the Port Graham community and native pollinators through traditional knowledge integration, habitat restoration, and community engagement, ultimately supporting ecosystem health and cultural food security.

Our project will support the restoration of an oyster reef in the Rappahannock River.

Our project will support the restoration of wetland and riparian habitats that sustain critical food and ceremonial wildlife resources of the Cowlitz People. Our project will protect and relocate beaver relatives to cultivate and maintain healthy aquatic ecosystems.

To ensure the long-term food security and cultural well-being of the Hoonah people, this project establishes a tribally led sockeye salmon monitoring program. It leverages new technology and traditional knowledge to provide data for management and strengthens tribal sovereignty over vital fisheries.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to reestablish yaaw (herring) populations near Keex Kwaan (Kake, Alaska and the surrounding areas) for sustainable community harvest, to revitalize the coastal ecosystems that provide critical, sacred foods, and support our traditional way of life.

Our project will support the current conservation herd’s skilled workers in buffalo wildlife management and allow for the retention of Indigenous staff for the Wind River Tribal Buffalo Initiative.

Our project exemplifies how Native stewardship, traditional ecological knowledge & conservation partnerships will restore ecosystems, strengthen cultural identity, & support biodiversity.

Our project restores culturally significant native plants and traditional knowledge as lasting Tribal assets. It protects ecological and cultural resources while building community capacity to steward MGBOMI lands through seasonal restoration, foodways education, and intergenerational learning.

This project is an effort to strengthen the Revitalization of Traditional Cherokee Artisan Resources (RTCAR) program by growing the community partner pool and developing resources that better serve the EBCI artisan community and ensure artisan natural resources are protected and available.

Our project supports the restoration of approximately 900 acres of agriculturally converted lands on the Menominee Reservation, re-establishing native ecosystems to create a sustainable, healthy landscape that provides opportunities for community buffalo harvest.

Restore Pacific lamprey access to historical spawning grounds above dams through culturally guided translocation, addressing ecological restoration and tribal food sovereignty for Columbia River Basin tribes.

Roots of Resilience will support the restoration of Arrow Arum, Button Bush, Spiny Rush, 4 Sides, Swamp Milkweed and Pickerelweed, to prevent erosion and restore the ecosystem for cultural stewardship continuity for the Mattaponi people using significant riparian plants and animals.

Our project will provide the funds to transport buffalo from the City and County of Denver buffalo herds to Tribes with existing buffalo programs. Denver has been donating buffalo to communities over the last 8 years, but Tribes face economic barriers to transportation.

Our project aims to revitalize the Nez Perce Tribe’s Himiin (Wolf- Canis lupus) Program by protecting the cultural and ecological legacy of Hímiin through community engagement, traditional knowledge, and youth mentorship to ensure the long-term care and presence of wolves on Nimiipuu homelands.

This project will establish baseline health data on Dall sheep harvested in the Ahtna Territory by analyzing hunter-harvested sample collections for heavy metals and trace elements to assess Dall sheep health, critical historic subsistence resources, and wildlife stewardship.

The purpose of this project is the cleanup and enrichment of communities on Standing Rock, we will also be informing the public of the importance of solid waste management.

This project will help create economic opportunities on Moloka‘i by providing a permanent land base for community-driven initiatives such as renewable energy, a community food hub, and a forest economy.

Our project will support developing an understanding of carbon, biodiversity and other novel stewardship finance schemes, in order to help the Wabanaki Commission develop culturally relevant frameworks and data sovereignty tools.

Our program will establish a Tribally-led biodiversity crediting framework using eDNA tools to monitor and protect species across the Chugach region, aligning Indigenous values with emerging markets to support long-term stewardship, climate resilience, and sustainable Tribal economic opportunities.

WRTBI's Buffalo Biodiversity Crediting Program will support the planning and development of our bio crediting program, which will increase economic, environmental, and community health, along with diversifying our funding streams for the nonprofit.

Our project will support the development program capacity to monitor biodiversity and carbon hemiboreal forests in the 1836 Treaty Ceded Territory with a focus on Sault Tribe's Shingle Bay Preserve as a demonstration site

Our project will support the development of a new fund for land re-matriation that can be accessed by our Tribal Nation members to re-acquire and protect their ancestral lands.

Our project will support the planning and development of our land return biocultural crediting project. This project will create a pathway for tribes and ethical investors to partner in the return of Blackfeet lands for a sustainable effort at land, culture, language, and Bison rematriation.

To strengthen the Modoc Nation’s capacity to secure and leverage funding that protects, regenerates, and sustains our sacred homelands by integrating TEK and asserting sovereignty. This will enable us to heal and reconnect our people to ancestral lands for the well-being of future generations.

The purpose integrates TEK with science-based restoration and centers tribal perspectives and priorities to build Tr capacity to create and manage resilient habitats that support and protect significant natural and cultural resources of the White Salmon River through shared, place-based stewardship.

With this funding, Medicine Fish will conduct a feasibility study for dam removal on the Wolf River, once a critical spawning ground for their relative the sturgeon, which sustained the Menominee people for generations.

The purpose of the Spirit Lake Forest Restoration Project is to reduce wildfire danger after a severe spruce bark beetle infestation and to restore forest health and subsistence activities through a reforestation project on approximately ten acres of Tribal land. (Please see attached document).

Our project will use private funding to revive a long-standing program that connects students to the landscape through traditional knowledge, highlighting its past and present uses. This work fosters cultural and physical ties to the land while supporting pathways to college for future generations.

This project will help retain and increase cultural and ecological knowledge by engaging Wôpanâak and intertribal families in land-based learning through traditional mentoring. It will leverage foodways, traditional language, housing practices to build relationships and restore cultural lifeways.

This project provides support for strategic planning meetings to enter into negotiations with public land managers for protection of our shared homeland and the creation of a federal government to tribal government co-stewardship agreement to manage traditional homelands using traditional practices.

The ultimate purpose is to restore forests and waters, protect sacred mountains, promote medicinal plants, and reduce wildfire hazard to Tribal communities and recreation areas through restorative stewardship of the border between the Tribe’s Reservation and the Apache National Forest.

Project purpose is to 1) retain access to ancestral lands, 2) increase engagement with USFS, participating in decision-making and control of our ancestral lands, and 3) leverage knowledge to expand partnerships with other National Forests to support Indigenous stewardship on lands across California.

1) Develop a thinning prescription for federal lands that results in forest complexity for treaty resources, 2) Increase the Tribe’s participation in federal forest management, and 3) Leverage and expand on an existing collaborative that is striving to improve forest structure for wildlife.

The objective of this project is to build capacity for timber sale administration, strengthening partnerships to work with the US Forest Service research station, as well as to aid in the expansion of a youth conservation corps program that was funded under an existing US Forest Service grant.

The purpose of this project is to highlight the connection Blackfeet have to their land, culture and ceremonies through the practice of sweet grass harvesting which we use for smudging. This is through the lens of land stewardship, climate change and the impotence of indigenous knowledge.

The ultimate purpose for the use of this grant would be to survey and assess areas in and around community and rural homes, recreational sites that are populated and utilized by public and cultural sites that have limited access but still used by tribal members.

1) Engage a stakeholder partnership to increase meaningful collaboration with the Forest Service for the stewardship of Angoon's ancestral lands; 2) Build capacity to pursue USFS funding that focuses on retaining or re-establishing local indigenous decision-making control over the traditional land.

The main purpose of this project is to inform the communities about traditional medicines that are derived from native trees plants found throughout the Great Plains, while also creating a framework for these medicines to be more accessible.

Our project will support the development of financial record-keeping and grant management systems at WRTBI, ensuring a sustainable land-rematriation initiative can be formalized to help both the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribal Buffalo restoration programs.

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Sponsorship for TAP 10th Anniversary Conference: Past, Present, and Future conference

This project will allow the Tribe to retain the Lake Capote osprey nest and webcam as an asset for education and outreach. An improved nest location and live stream will help the Tribe increase participation and engagement with the ospreys and Lake Capote.

The ultimate purpose of the program is to 1) Support Pueblo of San Felipe farmers to continue planting and growing traditional vegetable or row crops and also forage crops for livestock. Despite uncertainty with water availability and the challenges that farmers face it is vitally important to continue the Pueblo’s traditional agricultural way of life. 2) We need to plant white and blue corn because the community will need the corn for food and traditional purposes, and so that we can generate more seeds and replenish seed store for next year. 3) In the face of ongoing drought and climate uncertainty we need to incorporate soil building and cover cropping so that the Pueblo’s soil can support the community.

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The ultimate purpose is 1) to create an opportunity to grow expertise regarding collaborative efforts with federal agency partners like the USFS 2) retain and increase current expertise regarding decision making processes that better our tribal community 3) utilize relationships and co-management opportunities to secure and promote access and management to our ancestral lands.

The Ultimate purpose is to 1) Secure access to Yurok Ancestral Lands , 2) Increase engagement with federal entities to participate in decision making processes that significantly affect our ancestral land stewardship and cultural perpetuation activities, and 3) create new and expand existing collaboration with the USFS and other entities that provides opportunities for multiple partners.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to increase capacity at Organized Village of Kake to participate in USFS grant programs like BIL and IRA by 1) leveraging existing relationships with grant consultants and project collaborators who will 2) create trainings and mentorship for our tribal staff as they plan projects, apply for funding, and manage their grants, allowing us to 3) retain our employees longer and expand our Natural Resource projects.

The Community Navigator Capacity Support Grant will help the Burns Paiute Tribe manage Tribal rangelands by funding a Rangeland Ecologist and grant-writing services. This role is vital for sustainable land stewardship, ecosystem health, and climate resilience. Funding will support staff time, travel, supplies, and future grant development. If awarded, the grant will enable the Tribe to secure U.S. Forest Service funding, strengthening collaboration and ensuring ecological, cultural, and economic sustainability. Investing in this capacity preserves natural resources for future generations while aligning with both Tribal and U.S.F.S. values for effective land management.

The ultimate purpose is to 1)Utilize existing federal legislation to develop and execute an agreement between the USFS and the Kalispel Tribe which authorizes the Kalispel Tribe to increase their participation in the stewardship of their aboriginal lands. This Grant will give the Tribe the capacity to leverage other resources and help us achieve our desired conservation outcomes.

The Community Navigator Capacity Support Grant will allow the Pueblo of Jemez build tribal capacity for forestry management and restoration activities and explore U.S. Forest Service funding opportunities.

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This grant will fund the Tribe’s work to deploy a range of tactics to prevent the proposed mine. Nez Perce Tribe will work with legal and technical consultants on webpage updates, community education, and awareness projects.

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for travel expenses to two environmental justice community-led events.

This grant will support NAFWS 2025 multi-event sponsorship including National, Southwest Regional, Great Lakes Regional, and Northeast/Southeast Regional Conferences

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The ultimate purpose is to 1) Restore Buffalo as free ranging animals to their original habitat on the plains of Blackfeet reservation. We consistently lobby the BTBC for additional land to utilize for increasing the size of our buffalo herd. 2) Create opportunities to educate and get community members involved in our restoration movement. Utilize elders to assist in retaining and reconnecting community and culture through buffalo. 3) Utilize our buffalo herd to offer quality buffalo meat and products to enhance people’s health and lives.

Sponsorship for Bison & Blooms Revitalizing Grazing Pastures with Native Seeds Conference

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The priority lists will support the Tribal Nations in identifying the forest lands that meet tribal needs and long term planning goals

staff salaries to work on forest management planning, including a simple feasibility assessment regarding Sault Tribe's pursuit of community forest and landscape-scale restoration program funding.

We could use assistance with the escrow process; we are also receiving assistance from Trust for Public Land.

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Three staff will travel to beaver restoration areas and monitor environmental conditions and structural conditions. This will cover staff time and travel expenses. This will be for direct costs only

The overall and ultimate purpose of Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation’s project is to develop the creation of a fire fuels mitigation plan or (Community Wildfire Protection Plan) by utilizing the Technical Assistance service to produce a plan specific to the tribal lands. The development of a mitigation plan or (Community Wildfire Protection Plan) increases the opportunities for future development and funding

The North Fork Mono Tribe has been restoring cultural fire to protect the lifeways of Native communities and enhance biodiversity. The Tribe is interested in investigating the CFP and LSRP funding opportunities to see if there is alignment, and to ensure land protection

Acquire 900 acres of land in “Wailau Valley”. need to meet with the community and discuss what Restoration looks like. What director what we would like to move forward with community planning. Contracting with experts to see if it's a feasible project with the CFP program.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create a tribal Vegetation Ecology Program leveraging and building upon active co-management and co-stewardship efforts, 2) create a decision-support framework for newly rematriated tribal lands and waters, and 3) increase collaboration with Ceded-Territory landowners to support Sault Tribe stewardship and responsibilities across land tenures.

The ultimate purpose is to 1) create capacity to demonstrate Anishinaabe stewardship on tribal and adjacent lands by carbon and biodiversity market participation with tribal values, 2) create a suite of metrics for carbon and biodiversity monitoring, and 3) create a report that details the identified metrics and methods for community engagement in monitoring and decision-making.

General support for travel and consultation expenses related to the Tribe’s co-management efforts.

General support for travel and training expenses related to data collection and data sovereignty protocol creation

This project will support a tribal summit brining together 70 tribal villages within the Yukon River Watershed to discuss concerns and actions around mining and extraction and land and subsistence protection efforts.

The Indian Nations Conservation Alliance is an Indigenous-led organization that seeks to create a mission, a vision and goals that retains our natural resources valued by Native producers and land users, utilizing traditional knowledge to increase wise use that is by us and for us.

The projects aim to increase job opportunities and improve food security in two isolated villages in Southeast Alaska. These initiatives complement existing efforts to supply fresh, locally grown produce, eliminating the need for expensive transportation in communities without road access. This will make food more affordable and fresher.

This project will support recoding elder stories to preserve culture, language, and stewardship practices.

This project will allow Blackfeet Community College to host community-based gatherings to envision goals around management and stewardship of buffalo. Through community advisory students will complete the buffalo infrastructure so that buffalo can be reintroduced on campus.

This grant will support the release of 10 buffalo relatives to Menominee tribal lands.

To create a durable long-term co-management/co-stewardship agreement with the US Forest Service allowing for tribally based objectives and outcomes to be implemented on FS System lands. This would include increasing the pace and scale of restoration and conservation-based projects on Colville NF lands.

To provide collaborative, educational, and professional development for tribal members with a focus on grass ecology, restoration principals and practices with how they relate to traditional conservation and species recognition for their cultural significance.

The CRST, Land Office will use this project to build knowledge and resources to assist with management of tribal grasslands, looking to restore a healthy ecosystem. This will be done through the development of management plan that will include leveraging relationships with tribal, federal and industry entities.

Lower Brule intends to regain land lost before 1906, now in Ft. Pierre National Grasslands. It has begun with co-management but needs background to be an equal partner. Information gained about the land history/ecology from archival research will increase tribal knowledge and capacity and provide significant leverage in future negotiations.

This project will increase tribal capacity to restore grassland ecosystem health by supporting the planning and development of a co-stewardship plan for the Little Missouri National Grasslands that upholds tribal culture/language, honors Tribal sovereignty, and encompasses the restoration of cultural landscapes of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation.

This project will consist of the planning and development of a co-stewardship agreement for the Sheyenne National Grasslands that has cultural and natural resource significance to the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

This project will focus on building a relationship with the USFS and developing agreements to co-steward and collaborate on Buffalo Gap Grasslands in order to benefit Tribal wildlife, resources, and our community.

This grant will be used to 1) Build community capacity through website development by strengthening technical skills of two community members and 2) Complete and launch the updated NDNTA website.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

This capacity grant will help The Center for Native Health develop materials to educate and dialogue with Executive Board members, key constituents and community partners on the potential for CNH to establish a community forest that provides important community benefit.

Our project aims to create sustainable job opportunities for Indigenous youth while fostering climate resilience in our community. By cultivating stewardship practices, we empower young leaders to manage local resources effectively, increase community engagement, and leverage traditional knowledge to address the climate crisis and protect our environment for future generations.

This proposal leverages advanced broadcast alert systems and community efforts to enhance the rescue and recovery of missing, murdered, or endangered adults. In addition to the new Missing and Endangered Persons (MEP) Event Code that will serve as an Amber Alert for adults, multifaceted efforts will increase public safety and create a resilient community framework. This project seeks to engage the community through a comprehensive and integrated approach.

This grant will allow CRRC to hire a climate coordinator to do community outreach, education, and trainings.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

This project will increase tribal environmental asset control on or near Native lands.

This project will support a third year of leveraging funding to increase the impact of our shellfish garden program to create and retain jobs that support climate preparedness utilizing education, training, monitoring, and strategic planning.

This project will bolster the youth biocultural internship program with a new curriculum and travel opportunity for twelve interns to connect with other Native Hawaiian-led organizations doing community-led stewardship