A stack of logs guards an old conifer seed orchard near Lake Tomahawk in the Town of Hazelhurst in 2024. / Photo Credit: Wisconsin DNR
By United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service
The United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service today announced up to $95 million in competitive grant funding through its Wood Innovations program for projects that advance innovative wood uses, expand wood-based construction, and grow U.S. wood energy markets and forest product processing capacity.
Funding is available through three Forest Service grant programs: the Wood Innovations Grant, Community Wood Grant, and Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Grant programs. Together, these programs support projects that:
- Develop innovative wood products
- Increase the use of wood in commercial and residential construction
- Expand wood energy systems
- Modernize, retrofit, or increase the capacity of wood products manufacturing facilities
Eligible applicants include private businesses, for-profit and non-profit organizations, tribes, state and local governments institutions of higher education, and public utility, fire, conservation, and school districts.
Businesses engaged in or supporting the forest products economy – which is vital to many rural and tribal communities – may apply for funding to expand manufacturing capacity.
For more information on Wood Innovations, Community Wood and Wood Products Infrastructure Assistance Grant programs, visit the Forest Service website. Final grant funding levels will be subject to the availability of funds. The application deadline for grant programs is April 22, 2026.