Healthy Forests Reserve Program

Administered by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Healthy Forests Reserve Program (HFRP) provides financial assistance for private landowners to restore, conserve, and enhance forest resources on their lands. Designed to help promote the recovery of species listed under the Endangered Species Act, improve biodiversity, and enhance carbon sequestration, landowners can voluntarily convey permanent or 30-year conservation easements, or landowners can enter ten-year cost share agreements for implementing specific conservation actions. For sportsmen and women, many of the conservation actions supported through HFRP also provide habitat benefits for a host of important game species in addition to the programs benefits for listed species.