Cooperative Agreement F11AC00705

The federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 15.015) program, will enable Alaska Village Initiatives (AVI) to establish a native plant nursery in Alaska. The $436,480 award, granted on September 10, 2024, will allow AVI to construct a greenhouse, manage the nursery to produce 200,000 native plants per year, restore 3 acres of fire-burned tribal land, and establish a community seed...

This Cooperative Agreement award, totaling $798,922.66, was provided by the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Region under the Good Neighbor Authority (CFDA 15.015) federal grant program. The award supports a two-phase approach to develop workforce capacity and technical expertise within Alaska for watershed restoration activities. The Salcha-Delta Soil and Water Conservation District (Salcha-Delta SWCD) will partner with the Bureau of Land Management to engage tribal entities interested in...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA #15.820) program provides $498,897 to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2026. The project aims to increase awareness and resilience to the interactions of heat extremes and wildland fire in Alaska by: 1) characterizing recent extreme fire seasons, 2) producing seasonal forecasts of fire risk, and 3)...

Through this $562,842 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, the agency and Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition will partner to restore and steward important fish and wildlife habitat on non-federal land in Southeast Alaska. Specifically, the award will support 11 habitat restoration, assessment, planning and outreach projects carried out by the Coalition and its member groups from August 31,...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $499,858 Cooperative Agreement under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program to the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2026. The goal of the project is to improve the ability of biologists, water managers, and other resource managers to effectively and appropriately use climate data. UAF will create a web tool and other resources that allow users to easily access, visualize,...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $2,000,000 Project Grant to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) on December 19, 2024 under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). This program supports climate mitigation and forest resilience practices for non-industrial private forest landowners. The grant will fund cost-sharing, technical assistance, outreach, and education to help Alaska's forest landowners participate in...

Summary The Chugach Regional Resources Commission (CRRC) received a $323,079 Cooperative Agreement from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 10 under the Regional Wetland Program Development Grants program (CFDA 66.461), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027. The award supports CRRC's efforts to connect patterns of subsistence use to wetland habitats in Port Graham and Nanwalek on Alaska's Lower Kenai Peninsula, with the objective of increasing shared knowledge of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $2,792,350 federal Project Grant under the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.623) to The Great Land Trust, Inc., a non-profit organization based in Anchorage, Alaska. The grant is for a project that conserves, restores, and enhances 1,779.3 acres, including 1,140.6 acres of wetlands, providing a critical migratory corridor and breeding habitat for wetland-associated birds in Southcentral Alaska. The project focuses on protecting...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service R10-Alaska Region awarded a $3.3 million project grant to the Alaska Department of Natural Resources for the Cooperative Forestry Assistance federal grant program. The grant will support the advancement of forest resources management and conservation in Alaska from December 2022 through July 2027. Specifically, the funding will assist the Alaska Department of Natural Resources in producing and distributing genetically improved tree seeds and seedlings...

This $380,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program supports a project conducted by the University of Washington, in collaboration with Oregon State University, to investigate post-fire transformations in forests and shrublands in the Inland Pacific Northwest region. The key objectives are to: 1) identify and map areas that have experienced post-fire vegetation changes, 2) use...