Cooperative Agreement F21AC03026

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $394,579.44 Cooperative Agreement to Monarch Joint Venture (MJV), a non-profit organization, under the BLM's Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246). The two-year case study aims to document the seasonality of monarch butterfly presence and activity within the Cosumnes River watershed in California, while refining a scalable protocol for evaluating monarch activity across similar landscapes. The project will survey and monitor monarch...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Latin America and Caribbean Regional program (CFDA 15.640) provides $639,220 to Alternare AC, a foreign-owned non-profit in Mexico, to conserve and restore the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). Key activities include: Placing 3,024 hectares of land under community-based forest management (698 ha in the core zone, 2,326 ha in the buffer zone) Reforesting 60 hectares in the MBBR buffer...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.634 - State Wildlife Grants Program) provides $1,128,200.00 to expand the Motus wildlife tracking network in the Pacific and Intermountain Western United States. The project will install 30 new Motus stations and retrofit 50 existing stations to enable tracking of migratory species like the monarch butterfly, hoary bat, silver-haired bat, and western purple martin. This expanded network will...

This $124,665 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) aims to restore the endangered Behrens and Myrtles Silverspot butterflies on the Sonoma-Mendocino coast by expanding the coverage of their larval host plant, Viola adunca, in Fort Ross State Historic Park. The project will test the effectiveness of two restoration methods - seed dispersal and planting mature...

This $100,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) will fund habitat restoration activities in Tomales Bay, Marin County, California. The key deliverables include: 1) developing a conceptual design plan to increase connectivity of Marks Marsh to Tomales Bay, and 2) conducting invasive plant control on 1 acre of salt marsh and wetland habitat adjacent to mud flats and eel grass. These restoration actions...

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $149,723 Cooperative Agreement under CFDA Program 15.945, Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System, to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) on December 20, 2024. The purpose of this award is to conduct an inventory of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and bumble bees (Bombus spp.), including plant-pollinator interactions, within Whiskeytown National Recreation Area (WHIS) and Lassen Volcanic...

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will conduct field surveys, early season milkweed seed collections, and pesticide sampling of milkweed leaf material under a $100,038 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The award is part of the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), which provides funding to prevent species extinction and support recovery activities. Specifically, the Garden will identify locations of early...

This $20,000,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) supports the permanent protection of approximately 483 acres of critical habitat in the West Coyote Hills area of Orange County, California. The grant will be matched by $10,000,000 in non-federal funds from the state's Wildlife Conservation Board. The grant funds will contribute to the acquisition and conservation of ecologically significant lands that...

The San Juan Islands Conservation District will implement ten new Island Marble Butterfly habitat projects totaling $151,918.84 through December 2026 under a Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1. Funded by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program, the projects will create fenced habitat plots and permanent open spaces on private properties in San Juan and Lopez Islands, Washington to expand existing habitat and connect areas for...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $319,975 cooperative agreement to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) federal grant program. The funding will support habitat restoration activities within the 13-acre Lunada Canyon parcel to establish habitat for the federally endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly. Key deliverables include the removal of non-native vegetation and restoration...