The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) State Capacity Program is offering this grant to strengthen state capacity for invasive species management on Non-Federal Lands.

States need to build and maintain capacity around invasive species work to accomplish the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s (BIL) broader ecosystem restoration objective and the invasive species provision. For example, funds may be used to conduct forest health management, including detection surveys, monitoring, evaluation, prevention, and suppression of insect, disease, and invasive plant outbreaks on non-Federal lands to strategically sustain the health of forest ecosystems or tree species with high ecological value.

  tes need to build and maintain capacity around invasive species

work

to accomplish

BIL’s

broader ecosystem restoration

objec

ti

ve

and

t

he

invasive species

provision

. For example,

funds

may be used to

conduct forest health management, including detection surveys, monitoring,

evaluation, prevention, and suppression of insect, disease, and invasive plant outbreaks on

non

–

Federal lands to

strategically sustain the health of forest ecosystems or tree specie

s with

high ecological value by taking

stronger action

in the

earl

y

phases of

the

invasion curve

at

regional or sub

–

regional scales

and at points of entry

1

.