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Legacy Land Conservation Program is sponsored by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW). The Legacy Land Conservation Program is a competitive grant program from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources that funds the purchase of land and conservation easements to protect exceptional, unique, threatened, and endangered natural resources across Hawaii.
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Division of Forestry and Wildlife: Native Ecosystems Protection & Management | Legacy Land Conservation Program Legacy Land Conservation Program Legacy Land Conservation Program Legacy Land Conservation Grants Awarded For Fiscal Year 2026 , see “ How to apply ” section for more information about Land Acquisition Grants and Land Management Grants.
Stay Informed: See Legislative Alerts on Proposed Measures Impacting the Program – Engage with Your Legislators ——————————————————————————————————————– Funding to acquire land and protect valuable resources for public benefit Despite the regulation of land use and development in Hawai‘i, lands that hold important resource values are often unprotected, inaccessible, and threatened with damage and destruction.
The Legacy Land Conservation Program provides grants to community organizations and government agencies that strive to purchase and protect land that shelters exceptional, unique, threatened, and endangered resources. About the Legacy Land Conservation Program The State of Hawai‘i dedicates a portion of its annual revenue from real estate conveyance taxes to the Land Conservation Fund.
Each year the State Legislature provides the Legacy Land Conservation Program with some of the money held in the Fund. The Legacy Land Conservation Program distributes this money through a competitive grants process for purchasing land and conservation easements that protect the following resources: State agencies, counties, and nonprofit land conservation organizations may apply for grants from the Land Conservation Fund.
County and nonprofit awardees must provide matching funds that cover at least 25% of total transaction costs. A grant award from the Land Conservation Fund is subject to several levels of approval, the availability of funds, and budget restrictions and procedures implemented under the Governor’s Executive Biennium Budget Instructions.
ANNUAL REPORTS TO THE LEGISLATURE (2006-2024) House Resolution No. 20, Thirtieth Legislature, Recognizing the 15th Anniversary of the Legacy Land Conservation Program State Capitol Ag Day Flyer 2020 State Capitol Ag Day Flyer, 2019 Hawaii Conservation Conference Poster, 2018–Helping to Build Future Stewardship Commitments World Wetlands Day Flyer, 2018 State Capitol Ag Day Flyer, 2018 Legacy Land Conservation Program Department of Land and Natural Resources 1151 Punchbowl Street, Room 325 Forestry & Wildlife: By Program Forestry & Wildlife: By Island
Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: State agencies, counties, and nonprofit land conservation organizations may apply. County and nonprofit applicants must provide at least 25% matching funds. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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Natural Area Partnership Program is sponsored by Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW). This program supports a full range of management activities to protect, restore, or enhance private lands that contain some of Hawaii's most intact ecosystems and endangered species. Funds can be provided for the development of long-range management plans.
The Hawaii Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) is a cost-share grant and technical assistance program from the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, that supports private forest landowners in actively managing, conserving, and restoring Hawaii's forests. The program reimburses 75% of costs for developing a 10-year forest stewardship management plan and up to 50% of implementation costs for approved management practices, subject to funding availability. Eligible activities include timber production, native species restoration, wildlife habitat improvement, watershed protection, agroforestry, carbon sequestration, and forest recreation. Eligible applicants are individuals, joint owners, corporations, associations, and lease holders with at least 5 contiguous acres of forested or formerly forested land who intend to actively manage for both public and private benefit, with leases lasting at least 10 years. Priority ranking is applied due to limited state funding. Contact DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife to begin the application process.
EPA is seeking insightful, expert, and cost-effective applications from eligible applicants to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program’s non-federal partners with technical analysis and programmatic evaluation support related to water quality modeling and monitoring and spatial systems to manage, analyze, and map environmental data. The project assists the partners in meeting their restoration and protection goals and in increasing the transfer of scientific understanding to the Chesapeake Bay Program modeling, monitoring, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) activities. The recipient will support modeling, monitoring, and GIS programs needed to explain and communicate the health of and changes in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. Funding Opportunity Number: EPA-R3-CBP-23-18. Assistance Listing: 66.466. Funding Instrument: CA. Category: ENV. Award Amount: Up to $5.3M per award.
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Phase I is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The EPA SBIR Phase I Solicitation invites small businesses to submit proposals for projects addressing critical environmental challenges. Awards are for six months to demonstrate proof of concept. Key focus areas include Clean and Safe Water, Air Quality and Climate, Homeland Security, Circular Economy/Sustainable Materials, and Safer Chemicals.
Environmental and Climate Justice Community Change Grants Program (CCGP) is sponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Community Change Grants Program funds projects that provide meaningful improvements to the environmental, climate, and resilience conditions affecting disadvantaged communities. While broadly focused on environmental and climate justice, projects can include aspects that relate to community health and well-being through addressing environmental health risks. The program aims to fund community-driven pollution and climate resiliency solutions and strengthen communities' decision-making power. Applications are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.