CAL FIRE Business and Workforce Development Grant

CAL FIRE’s Wood Products and Bioenergy Program provides grant opportunities to strengthen California’s forest-sector businesses and workforce while promoting healthy, resilient forests statewide. These grants support a variety of projects that enhance industry operations, develop workforce skills, and foster innovation in the forest sector. Business and Workforce Development Grants are funded, in part, through California Climate Investments, which uses billions of Cap-and-Invest dollars to fund projects that reduce harmful emissions, protect public health, strengthen local economies, and support natural environments. With a strong focus on communities most impacted by pollution and limited access to resources, California Climate Investments help build a more equitable and sustainable future. Eligible activities shall further the goals of the California Forest Carbon Plan, California’s Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan, California’s Wildfire & Forest Resilience Action Plan, California’s Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire, California’s Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Targets, and AB 32 Climate Change Scoping Plan. This grant program supports increasing the pace and scale of forest fuels management by expanding the capacities of businesses that work in removing and utilizing forest fuels, fire reintroduction, and reforestation of forests degraded by overcrowding, drought, pest infestation, and catastrophic fire. Grant projects should, either directly or indirectly, facilitate greenhouse gas emission reductions and further the purposes of AB 32 and related statutes, or contribute to other goals