Cooperative Agreement F21AC03487

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $281,264.44 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) to Greenbelt Land Trust, Inc. This funding supports the organization's efforts to restore oak habitats, promote healthy conifer forests, and manage a climate-resilient landscape. Key project activities include: Reducing flammable brush and ladder fuels on approximately 80 acres of forest edge and...

This $110,000 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (CFDA 15.245 - Plant Conservation and Restoration Management), supports a project to better understand and quantify the impacts of water harvesting structures and strategic grazing management on vegetation restoration in the Hatch and Mesilla Valley region of New Mexico. The key objectives are to develop a comprehensive restoration design and monitoring approach, and to work closely with ranchers to implement grazing...

The Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, will receive $1,000,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The funding will support continued maintenance of severely fire-prone areas within the Ashland All-Lands Forest Restoration project boundaries above Ashland, Oregon through activities such as...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $250,000 cooperative agreement to the Klamath Watershed Partnership doing business as Klamath Watershed under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631). The award will fund riparian habitat restoration activities along streams impacted by the 2021 Bootleg Fire in Oregon. Specifically, the recipient will plant 1,800 acres of native trees along selected riparian reaches to stabilize soils, minimize...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $375,000 Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) Program grant to River Partners, a non-profit organization based in Chico, California. The grant will fund the development of genetically appropriate native plant materials for post-fire habitat restoration on public lands in California. This will involve collecting source-identified seeds, propagating and amplifying them to produce sufficient quantities for large-scale restoration projects. The...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Soil and Water Conservation program (CFDA 10.902) provides $250,000 in funding to the University of Montana to assess how wildfire impacts soil seed bank communities. The overarching goal is to better understand the relationship between wildfire, soil conditions, and plant revegetation to inform the development of post-fire seed mixes that can improve revegetation...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), awarded a $490,274 Cooperative Agreement to Colorado State University. The goal of this multi-year project is to assess the tools, methodologies, and governance practices that can be used to mitigate the impacts of large wildfires in the western United States, such as watershed impairment and habitat recovery for critical species. The research will involve a literature review,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $961,655.92 to develop genetically appropriate native plant material for use in habitat restoration and rehabilitation on public lands in California. The project's key objectives are to: 1) Develop native plant materials through seed increase and testing for restoration of wildlife habitats and rehabilitation after wildfires and other disturbances, and 2)...

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...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $2,606,862.14 Cooperative Agreement to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization based in Ashland, Oregon. The funding is provided through the BLM's Forest and Woodlands Resource Management program (CFDA 15.233) and will support the implementation of the Rogue Basin Cohesive Forest Restoration Strategy and the Klamath-Siskiyou Strategic Conservation Action Plan. The Cooperative Agreement will fund 250 acres of oak...