Climate Smart Communities Initiative Grant award
We are thrilled to announce that The Keystone Concept, The Wood River Land Trust, and Blaine County’s 5B Climate Action Network (5B CAN) have been selected as a recipient team of the Climate Smart Communities Initiative grant!
The Climate Smart Communities Initiative (CSCI) has awarded 21 innovative community-led projects nationwide, totaling $2.2 million, to bolster climate resilience planning and adaptation efforts. This grant provides $99,000 in funding to our team in the Wood River Valley, paired with technical support, expert training, and peer learning opportunities, all aimed at helping us advance our climate resilience strategies over the course of the next 12 months (August 2025 - August 2026).
What this means for our work:
We’ll strengthen and advance our resilience projects across the valley, which will include: whether that's conducting risk assessments, engaging our community meaningfully, prioritizing critical actions, and implementing projects that build forest health and resilience across the landscape and in communities.
We’ll also benefit from capacity-building opportunities through the Steps to Resilience training, cohort peer learning, and the initiative’s Learning & Innovation framework—to assess, document, and share what works best in building climate resilience.(climateresiliencefund.org, ecoadapt.org)
We are excited to bring this momentum into action and look forward to working together on projects that will protect and prepare us for the future. Learn more about this project and our work, that begins in September 2025, in Blaine County’s August 13, 2025 Media Release.