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Financial Assistance
Cost-Share Assistance
Cost-share may be available for approved forest management practices. An approved Forest Stewardship
Plan is required for cost-share eligibility. For all practices, the inspecting forester will determine
if conditions are suitable to approve application for cost-share practice. For reimbursement payment, the
inspecting forester must verify that practice was correctly completed. Receipts of supplies, labor, and
contractors are required for reimbursement. The following are cost-share percentages base on National and
Alaska priorities.
- Reforestation of beetle or wildfire killed forest and wildfire fuels reduction in the wildland urban
interface or near buildings will qualify for 75% cost-share reimbursement.
- Forest thinning and projects for water quality improvement, including forest road repair, will qualify for 65% cost-share reimbursement.
- Other eligible practices will be quality for 50% cost-share reimbursement.
Some cost-share practices:
- Landowner stewardship plan preparation
- Purchase and delivery of seedlings
- Purchase and delivery of transplants
- Seedling planting
- Transplant planting
- Site preparation – hand scalping
- Site preparation – mechanical
- Precommercial thinning
- Wildfire fuels reduction
- Defensible space fuels reduction
- Defensible space plantings
- Wildlife brush piles
- Bird boxes and platforms
- Stand management for wildlife
- Wildlife shrub planting
- Forest road repair for stream protection
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