The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is accepting statements of interest for its Wildfire and Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program. Funded through Proposition 4 (Climate Bond) and fast-tracked by Governor Gavin Newsom’s emergency proclamation, this immediate action program will allocate $10 million for projects within SNC’s Sierra-Cascade service area that will protect people and communities. Passed in November of 2024, the Climate Bond allocates $1.5 billion to wildfire and forest-resilience programs. In March 2025, the Governor signed an executive order authorizing $170 million of Climate Bond funds to be issued to a variety of state entities to expedite forest-health, prescribed fire, and fuel-reduction projects that will advance wildfire resilience statewide. The SNC received just under $31 million of this allotment and at its recent June meeting, the SNC Governing Board approved grant guidelines for the first cycle of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Directed Grant Program that will distribute $10 million.