Assistance program
Stewardship Agreements
$750.3 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Forest Service, Agriculture, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 10.701
- What it does
- Stewardship End Result Contracting authorizes use of contracts and agreements to help achieve land management goals while meeting local and rural community needs, including contributing to the sustainability of rural communities and providing a continuing source of local income and employment. It focuses on the “end result†ecosystem benefits and outcomes, rather than on what's removed from the land.
- Who benefits
- Not Applicable
- Who applies
- The Forest Service may enter into stewardship agreements with any entity that has the ability to either perform the work or contract it out. This can include, state and local governments, Federally recognized tribes and non-profit organizations. Appropriate Stewardship Activities include (but are not limited to): Road and trail maintenance or obliteration to restore or maintain water quality; Soil productivity, habitat for wildlife and fisheries or other resource values; Setting of prescribed fires to reduce wildfire hazards, improve the composition, structure, condition, and health of forest stands, or to improve wildlife habitat; Removing vegetation or other activities to promote healthy forest stands, reduce wildfire hazards, or achieve other land management objectives; Watershed restoration and maintenance; Restoration and maintenance of wildlife and fish habitat; Control of noxious and exotic weeds and reestablishment of native plant species.
- Authorized by
- 16 U.S.C. § 6591c
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
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- How it's paid
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- Awards, counted once
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- The colored bars
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Direct payments