Federal support for Oregon forests is coming in three forms: $5 million in new funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Issued under the NRCSâ Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP), these will assist individual landowners to treat privately owned, non-industrial forestland. Up to $75 million that the federal Farm Service Agency is making available through its Emergency Forest Restoration Program. This money is earmarked to aid small woodland owners with cleanup and restoration in the wake of the Labor Day wildfires. Joint Chiefs projects, which are a partnership between NRCS and the USDA Forest Service to complete treatments on federal lands and adjoining non-industrial private forestlands. Since 2014 ODF has been partner to 10 such forest restoration projects, helping create landscape-scale environmental benefits, such as greater resilience to drought and wildfire. The most recently announced project will treat forestlands in Deschutes and Jefferson Counties.