Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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Funding opportunities
Recreational Boating Facilities
Recreational Boating Facilities Grants These grants may be used by districts, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation districts and qualified lake asso...
Ready for Reuse Grants
Wisconsin Ready for Reuse Loan and Grant Program The Ready for Reuse Program is on full display in La Crosse. Photo credit: City of La Crosse. The Ready for Reu...
Off-Highway Motorcycle Trails
Off-Highway Motorcycle (OHM) trail grants Revenue collected from off-highway motorcycle (OHM) registrations is available for development, rehabilitation and mai...
Notice of Intent/Discharge Cost-Share Grants (NOD)
Notice of Intent/Discharge Cost-Share Grants The DNR and the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) offer cost-share funding grants to...
Municipal Flood Control
Municipal Flood Control Grant Program ATTENTION: The 2026 Municipal Flood Control Grant Application Period is now open. Please check the MFC Program and Applica...
Motorized Stewardship Grants
Motorized Stewardship Grants The Motorized Stewardship Grant Program is closed to new applicants on July 1, 2021. ATV/UTV grants are available to and tribes to...
Landowner Incentive Program
Landowner Incentive Program Helping private landowners protect rare plants and animals A Landowner Incentive Program project in Iowa County. The goal of the Lan...
Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) - Nationally Competitive Program
Land & Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) - State Program
Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Program This is a federal program administered in all states that encourages the creation and interpretation of high-qua...
Hunter R3 (Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation) Grant Program
Hunter R3 (Recruitment, Retention and Reactivation) Grant Program Formerly known as the Hunter and Education Grant Program In order to focus hunter training, de...
Forest Landowner Grant Program (WFLGP)
Wisconsin Forest Landowner Grant Program Please do NOT send application materials to the Madison Office. This will only delay application processing. The Wiscon...
Forest Fire Protection (FFP)
Forest Fire Protection (FFP) Grant Program Forest Fire Protection (FFP) 50% cost-share grants are available to Wisconsin fire departments and county/area fire a...
Emerging Contaminants - Small/Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program (EC-SDC)
EC-SDC Grant Program for OTM / NonProfit NN Systems Emerging Contaminants-Small or Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program for Other-than-Municipal/Nonprofit No...
Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Fund (DERF)
Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Fund (DERF) The DERF Program closed to new applicants on August 30, 2008. The Dry Cleaner Environmental Response Fund (DERF)...
Dam - Removal
Dam Removal Grant Program The Dam Removal Grant Program provides reimbursement for 100 percent of eligible project costs up to a maximum of $50,000 for any owne...
Dam - Municipal
Municipal Dam Grant Program ATTENTION: The FY2025-27 Municipal Dam Grant Application period is now open! The application deadline is February 27, 2026. The FY20...
County Good Neighbor Authority Program
County Forest Wildlife Habitat Grant
County Forest Wildlife Habitat Grant Funds are available to finance county forest wildlife habitat management, with emphasis on forest wildlife habitat improvem...
County Forest Sustainable Grant
County Forest Sustainable Grant Counties with lands enrolled in the County Forest Law are eligible to apply for grants to be used for special, short term or una...
County Forest Administration Grants
County Forest Administration Grant Any county employing a County Forest Administrator can receive up to 50 percent of its employee’s annual salary and fringe be...
County Forest Acreage Share Payments
For more information, contact: Doug Brown County and Public Lands Specialist tel:+1-715-966-0157
County Conservation Aids
County Conservation Aids County conservation grants provide financial assistance to enhance county/tribal fish and wildlife programs. This Fish and Wildlife Man...
Clean Vessel Act
Federal Clean Vessel Act grant program The Clean Vessel Act (CVA) Program is a nationwide competitive federal grant program that provides funding to states as p...
Clean Diesel Grant Program
Clean Diesel Grant Programs The DNR administers the Clean Diesel Grant Programs to help reduce diesel emissions from both public and private vehicle fleets acro...
Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Program
Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) Program The purpose of BIG is to construct, renovate and maintain boating infrastructure facilities for transient recreationa...