Summary: The Climate Stewardship Incentive Program (C-SIP) is a branch of the Healey Administration Forests as Climate Solutions Initiative providing financial encouragement to private forest landowners and municipalities to carry out stewardship practices focused on soil protection, carbon retention and increasing forest adaptive capacity when pursuing forest management activities.
Funding Focus: This is the cost-sharing component of the Forest Stewardship Program. In Massachusetts, the Forest Stewardship Program provides technical and financial assistance to forest landowners in several ways: through cost-share, small reimbursement grants to municipalities, and educational outreach and technical assistance to landowners and professionals. The goal of this cost-share opportunity is to assist family forest land stewards, municipalities, and natural resource professionals with costs associated with addressing climate change impacts on forests, forest carbon, and the rural economy.
