Alberta grant guide · Alberta
Ecosystem Services Grant Program
Supports ecosystem-services programs; retention payments and improvement payments are program mechanisms. Exact client-level payment depends on the ecosystem-services program.
Who is eligible
Program-level applicants rather than a generic direct grant to every landowner.
What it funds
Supports ecosystem-services programs; retention payments and improvement payments are program mechanisms. Exact client-level payment depends on the ecosystem-services program.
How to use it
Potential model: conservation organization/program operator + Expanding Edge + private landowners.
Before you apply
- Most Alberta producer cost-share programs ask for a current Environmental Farm Plan. Start it first.
- Applications ask for site facts: water source, soil, wetlands, acreage, and the practice you plan. A free land report gives most of them for the boundary you draw.
- Run the grant eligibility quiz to see which other programs may stack with this one.
Not tax, legal, or grant-writing advice. A listing here means a program may be relevant, not that any applicant is eligible.