The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management awarded a $295,397.14 Cooperative Agreement to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) on October 1, 2023 under the Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230). This grant will fund a 5-year project to remove invasive primrose plants and restore the Laguna Creek area in California. The project aims to prevent, detect, control and monitor invasive plant populations on public lands to support the...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region awarded a $125,000 Cooperative Agreement to Eureka County, Nevada under the Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230) from September 11, 2022 through September 10, 2027. Under this award, Eureka County will coordinate and perform noxious and invasive weed control on BLM-administered lands in Nevada, including inventory and mapping of weed species, treatment of identified weeds subject to time and funding...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Good Neighbor Authority program (CFDA 10.691), provides $129,500.00 in funding for the Burned Area Emergency Response Weed Management Project. The project aims to prevent the expansion of invasive plants and noxious weeds into native plant communities within the Elk Fire burned area on National Forest System lands and adjacent Sheridan County lands in Wyoming. The funding will...
This $129,910.30 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228), aims to reduce the abundance of exotic annual grasses within the Upper Rogue Oak Initiative project area in southwest Oregon. The Understory Initiative, a woman-owned non-profit organization, will collaborate with BLM to strategically apply prescribed burning and follow-up herbicide treatments to clear meadows of invasive...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230), provides $135,000 to the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition (ENLC) to conduct chemical control and other methods to manage six priority invasive and noxious plant species over a 5-year period from September 2023 to September 2028. The target species include Dyers woad, Russian knapweed, spotted knapweed, hoary cress, Canada thistle, and leafy...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 15.015) program, provides $304,465.20 to Custer County, Idaho to complete weed treatment, assessment, and inventory on BLM-managed public lands. The project aims to address invasive species that degrade the landscape, increase wildfire risk, and reduce carbon sequestration, in order to protect native plant populations and biodiversity. The...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237) to the Otero Soil & Water Conservation District in New Mexico. The objective of this 1-year project is to be part of a multi-agency effort for the control of noxious and invasive weeds. Key activities include: 1) Inventorying and treating noxious weeds, 2) Restoring native vegetation, and 3) Developing educational materials on noxious weed...
The Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas awarded a $101,292 cooperative agreement to Meade County, South Dakota under the Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230). The award will support Meade County Weed and Pest Department's efforts to control and manage invasive species in Lawrence and Meade counties through April 2027. Key products and services include identifying and treating invasive species infestations using ATV-mounted spray equipment from May to October....
This $495,740 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 15.015) program will fund efforts to improve degraded upland vegetation communities in Idaho that have been impacted by invasive plants. The funding will be used to conduct helicopter-based aerial herbicide and seeding treatments across targeted acreage, as well as perform post-treatment assessments to evaluate the accuracy and success of the...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $627,110 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.228 - BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities) to Oregon State University to restore sagebrush rangelands dominated by invasive annual grasses. The project will use a combination of precision conservation tools and dormant season grazing regimens to generate science-based data to better manage fine fuels on sagebrush rangelands. Key objectives...