Washington Natural Resource Investments (NRI) Cost-Share

State cost-share for farmers and other landowners who voluntarily install conservation practices (BMPs) that improve water quality, habitat, forest health or climate resilience, paid through their local conservation district. "Cost-share means a landowner only pays a portion of a project's total cost – the remaining portion is paid by the conservation district." Every eligible district gets an allocation each biennium.

• Landowners work with their local conservation district. SCC funds go to "Conservation districts that meet all Conservation Accountability and Performance Program (CAPP) requirements."

• Practices must meet NRCS standards or SCC-approved designs.

• Cost-share limit: $100,000 per landowner or cooperator per fiscal year across all SCC programs.

The district sets the cost-share rate (up to 100%; default 50%). Up to 25% of each district award may fund technical assistance. Work must start within 120 days of award.

Published amounts: "Maximum cost-share per landowner per fiscal year is $100,000" (across all SCC programs). SCC manual: cost share on private property can be reimbursed "at up to a maximum of 100 percent of the total project costs" at the rate each district sets by resolution (default 50 percent). Each CD's 2025-27 total is $116,470.

Contact your local conservation district (scc.wa.gov/conservation-district-map). The district enters the project in SCC's Conservation Practice Data System and signs SCC's Contract for Cost Share with the landowner.

Deadline text on the page: Landowner cost-share is offered by conservation districts from their biennial allocation. Funding matrix (CD level): "Next application window starts July 1, 2027." March 5, 2026 news: "a deadline has not been established for when conservation districts must access this available funding."