Cities are eligible for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Forest Service Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) Program - Southern Region and International Institute of Tropical Forestry (IITF) funds. The Landscape Scale Restoration (LSR) program is designed to “encourage collaborative, science-based restoration of priority forest landscapes” that not only focuses on priority landscapes but may include issues identified in the respective states’ forest action plans.
Projects must achieve on-the-ground outcomes on rural, non-industrial private forest land and/or rural State or local government forest land. For this program, “rural” means any area other than an urbanized area, such as a city or town that has a population of greater than 50,000 inhabitants according to the latest census.
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