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Kansas Department of Transportation
Corridor Management Program - The purpose of this program is to balance traffic and access
management with land use management to protect public safety, public investment in the
highway system, and private investment in property development on adjacent lands. The goal of
corridor management is to create and preserve safe, efficient, and economically viable
transportation corridors.
Transportation Enhancement Program - This is an annual competitive Federal Transportation
Enhancement funded program that can be used for transportation enhancement activities that
include environmental mitigation to address water pollution due to highway runoff or reduce
vehicle-caused wildlife mortality while maintaining habitat connectivity.
Kansas Forest Service
Community Forestry Program - This program provides assistance, education, and support to
communities and municipalities in organizing urban and community forestry programs,
identifying resource needs, setting priorities of work, and training city employees
Rural Forestry Program - Professional foresters provide “on-site” forest management and agro
forestry analysis and recommendations through inventory of forests, woodlands and
windbreaks.
Conservation Tree Planting Program - The tree-planting program provides tree and shrub
seedlings for conservation plantings to establish forests, woodlands and shelterbelts ant to
mitigate loss of forestland.
Environmental Education and Financial Assistance - The Kansas Forest Service provides a
variety of publications, field days and workshops all available on the Web at
www.kansasforests.org.The Kansas Forest Service administers the Volunteer Fire Assistance
cost-share grant program that provides financial assistance to fire departments. Such programs
as the USDA conservation programs provide for incentives to protect and implement forestry
practices through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), the Cooperative
Conservation Partnership Initiative, the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program and other
programs are available to landowners.
Firewise Program - The Kansas Firewise program offers prevention materials for homeowners
to reduce the threat of wildland fire in rural and high-risk areas. There is currently only one
Firewise community in Kansas.
Forest Health Program - This program monitors the impacts of insects, diseases, drought,
flooding and other health issues in forests, woodlands, windbreaks and conservation tree
plantings by providing diagnosis and control recommendations and mitigation and planning for
Emerald Ash Borer, Asian Bush Honeysuckles and other invasive species.
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