The U.S. Agriculture Department has awarded $10 million to the Nature Conservancy in New Hampshire to help landowners protect their forestland.

“This funding is critical to helping keep the forests of New Hampshire healthy in the face of changing climate and weather patterns,” Rachel Rouillard, state director for the conservancy, said in a news release Monday.

“By expanding our Climate Resilient Forest Management Project, we can directly assist landowners and communities to ensure that our forests continue to provide the economic, recreational and human-health benefits that we all depend on.”

So-called “climate-smart” forest practices can include promoting biodiversity and sustainable growth, said Jim O’Brien, deputy state director for the conservancy.

In the Monadnock Region, the Nature Conservancy uses some of these practices in managing the 1,324-acre Surry Mountain Preserve, and the work done there can be used to educate and train others through efforts that will be funded by the federal grant, he said.

The grant will provide money to be used for financial assistance for landowners, workshops and training, technical assistance, outreach and engagement as well as monitoring and evaluation.

Nature Conservancy organizations in five other states are also receiving the grants, which total $102.5 million, including:

■Idaho, where $19.4 million has been awarded to conserve 20,000 acres of climate-resilient landscapes and 40 miles of streams through conservation easements.

■Indiana, which will receive $15.7 million to support best conservation practices for the central Wabash River Basin.

■Maine, which will get $24.9 million to improve native fish and wildlife species by upgrading road-stream crossings and other means of improved fish passage.

■Ohio, which will receive $12.6 million to reduce methane emissions from milking cows.

■South Dakota, which will get $19.6 million to conserve grasslands.