SHOSHONE COUNTY, Idaho — The largest grant for an Idaho Department of Lands project in history will be used to help communities in the Silver Valley area.
IDL was recently awarded at $7.5 million Community Wildfire Defense Grant for the Shoshone !-90 Hazardous Fuels project.
This project focuses on wildfire risk mitigation for the Silver Valley area. Under this project, over 18,000 acres of high-risk forestland and over 1,200 acres of private land will be treated in hopes of reducing the risk of wildfires.
“This project builds on years of work with Shoshone County and is essential to addressing the goals of expanding wildfire risk mitigation efforts,” said Tyre Holfeltz, IDL Wildfire Risk Mitigation Program Manager. “It’s about making the landscapes of Shoshone County more resilient while reducing risk to communities by connecting and expanding similarly completed and planned efforts on private, state, and federal lands.”
IDL says the project will directly benefit the communities of Cataldo, Kellogg, Mullan, Wallace and others found along the I-90 corridor in Shoshone County.
Implementation of this project is set to begin in spring of next year. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2030.
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