Nearly $3 Million Available To Landowners For Florida’s Future Forests Program

July 27, 2023

The Florida Forest Service has announced $2.8 million is now available to landowners through the Florida’s Future Forests Program. In its third year, the program offers landowners cost-share payments to help increase the acreage of Florida’s healthy forests, which provide clean air, clean water, wildlife habitat, recreation, and thousands of essential products.

The Florida’s Future Forests Program is open to non-industrial, private landowners, local governments, and registered nonprofit organizations. To obtain an application and learn more about the Florida’s Future Forests Program, visit FDACS.gov/FutureForests.

Applicants may request funding for tree establishment practices on a minimum of 20 acres and up to a maximum of 250 acres. Since 2021, the Florida Legislature has appropriated approximately $12 million for this program. These funds have already been used to create 26,000 acres of healthy forests in Florida.

“A majority of our state’s forests are privately owned, so Florida landowners are key to maintaining and conserving our forests and natural resources for future generations,” said Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson. “This important program helps landowners offset the initial cost of site preparation, seedlings, and the planting of seedlings.”

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One Response to “Nearly $3 Million Available To Landowners For Florida’s Future Forests Program”

  1. dave lamb on July 27th, 2023 8:45 pm

    Here is a program that people with acreages not being farmed or not farmable ground should support. We must insure that at harvest time there are loggers willing to harvest these small acreages.

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