Cooperative Agreement F21AC03170

This 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 fund research to study the movements and habitat use of LeConte's and Bendire's thrashers in Arizona. The $250,000 award, spanning September 2024 to September 2027, aims to address information needs identified in the draft Desert Thrasher Conservation Strategy, which recognizes solar development as a moderate to high threat to...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to determine the presence, habitat selection, and density of common ravens in relation to anthropogenic structures and subsidies within the range of the endangered Gunnison's sage-grouse population in Colorado. The project aims to provide comprehensive information about the impacts of raven predation on the Gunnison's...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides $249,360 in funding to Oregon State University (OSU) from September 2024 to September 2029. The project aims to identify anthropogenic activities and structures that inhibit or promote movement and connectivity among and within seasonal habitats for the Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in the Bighorn Basin...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the County of Baker, in Oregon, to implement conservation actions that increase the quality and quantity of sagebrush habitat and reverse the sage-grouse population trend in the Baker County Priority Area for Conservation (PAC). The grant funds will be used to implement Tier 1 projects, which include removing juniper from high priority...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded Oregon State University a $105,000 cooperative agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to assess the influence of ravens on the Baker, Oregon sage-grouse population through raven removal. The cooperative agreement, awarded February 12, 2021 for a period ending November 1, 2021, will support Oregon State University's efforts to secure endangered species information and...

This $916,173 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Environmental Biology (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) aims to develop a user-friendly conservation tool to help land managers prioritize actions to restore declining grassland bird populations across North America. The project will collect data on migratory patterns, genetic health, and reproductive output of three grassland bird species to build a genomically-informed, full annual cycle, integrated...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.247 Wildlife Resource Management program provides $109,464.49 to New Mexico State University to conduct research on the effects of energy development and forest management on birds of greatest conservation need in southwestern New Mexico. The key research activities include: 1) investigating territory occupancy and nest survival of arid land birds, especially Bendire's...

This Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund research at Colorado State University (CSU) to investigate the potential role of migratory songbirds as pollinators in North America. The $329,069 award, granted on February 15, 2025, will support a study examining the characteristics and environmental factors associated with songbirds carrying pollen, the plant morphological traits linked to flower-foraging by birds, and the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $310,570 from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) supports research on sage-grouse habitat use and movement in response to prescribed burns in Wyoming. The project, conducted by Oregon State University, aims to provide data to inform habitat management and conservation efforts for the sage-grouse species within the Little Mountain region of Wyoming. The award...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the CFDA 15.608 Fish and Aquatic Conservation - Aquatic Invasive Species program will support a $240,089.17 research project conducted by the American Bird Conservancy. The project aims to investigate the responses of young forest bird species, including the threatened Golden-winged Warbler and Eastern Whip-poor-will, to experimental silvicultural treatments designed to improve northern hardwood forest regeneration....