Cooperative Agreement F19AC00918

This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) will fund longleaf pine restoration and habitat enhancement projects on state, private, and tribal lands across the Southeast United States. The prime awardee, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), will work with sub-grantees including the American Bird Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, The Longleaf Alliance, and the Land Trust For Louisiana to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance (CFDA 15.674) program provides $300,000 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, to conduct fuels reduction and habitat restoration activities on 300 acres of land adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California. Key project activities include removing or thinning...

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...

Under a $114,654 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Coastal Program (CFDA 15.630), the Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain will restore 80.39 acres of wet pine savanna habitat near the Mississippi Sandhill Crane Refuge. The project utilizes mechanical mulching, chemical mowing, and bush hogging techniques to establish alternative restoration methods and explore their ecological and economic viability. This effort builds on the...

American Forests will provide $250,000 in climate-smart reforestation services to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks under a four-year cooperative agreement from the National Park Service's Natural Resource Stewardship program. Key activities include meeting with indigenous stewards to develop reforestation goals, evaluating assisted adaptation strategies, collecting tree cones, growing seedlings, planning post-fire recovery, and stakeholder engagement. American Forests will work with...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) was awarded a $1,710,226 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the State & Private Forestry Hazardous Fuel Reduction Program. The grant will fund TNC's "Passing the Torch: A Missouri Fire Collaboration for the Future" initiative from August 2, 2022 through September 30, 2026. Through this initiative, TNC will work to reduce hazardous fuels and the risk of large, destructive wildfires across forests, woodlands,...

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) was awarded a $1,244,000 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654). The 4-year project aims to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire on 2,100 acres of loblolly pine-dominated habitat at the James River National Wildlife Refuge in Virginia. Key activities include: 1) completing a timber inventory to assess baseline conditions; 2)...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $318,750 Cooperative Agreement under the Candidate Species Conservation Program (CFDA 15.660) to The Evergreen State College for the "Sagebrush Steppe Plant Materials Project". This project aims to: Develop infrastructure to scale up production of diverse sagebrush steppe plant species, particularly native forbs and shrubs, to ensure sufficient resources for post-fire rehabilitation and recovery of functioning...

This $235,206 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program (CFDA 10.202) grant, awarded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to Kentucky State University, will fund a 2-year project focused on addressing invasive plant species and exploring agroforestry opportunities in Kentucky's forests. The project has three key objectives: 1) Evaluating invasive plant removal methods and their impacts on soil erosion, 2) Investigating the use of spray drones to control...

This $180,395 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Montana-Dakotas will support Special K Ranch, Inc. in advancing native plant conservation and restoration efforts through 2027. Funded by the Plant Conservation and Restoration Management program (CFDA 15.245), the award will increase production of native seeds harvested east of the Rocky Mountains for revegetation projects addressing issues such as wildfires, drought, and overgrazing. Special K...