Cooperative Agreement F24AC00644

This $100,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 will fund the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission's grizzly bear monitoring and management programs from July 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024. The award supports the Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team in determining population trends, distribution, habitat use, food habits, and survival rates of grizzly bears in southern Bear Management Units within the Yellowstone ecosystem. Data collected will be...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission's Fiscal Division. This funding supports the Department's Grizzly Bear Program, which involves monitoring and management projects to determine population characteristics, habitat use, and management of grizzly bear interactions with livestock and humans in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Wyoming. The project...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management awarded a $500,002 cooperative agreement to The Blackfoot Challenge, a community-based non-profit organization, under the Threatened and Endangered Species (CFDA 15.246) federal grant program. The purpose of this 3-year project is to increase the scope and scale of ecological restoration and resilience efforts across the Blackfoot River watershed in Montana, which comprises a significant portion of the Missoula Blackfoot-Clark Fork...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $120,000 Project Grant under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG). The award supports IDFG's comprehensive, long-term Idaho Grizzly Bear Conflict Management Program, which focuses on two specific recovery areas: the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the Selkirk, Cabinet-Yaak Ecosystem. The project aims to 1) demonstrate IDFG's management and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) provides $162,000.00 in funding to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization in Montana, for a project focused on improving livestock water infrastructure and grazing management flexibility in North Valley County, Montana. The project aims to support conservation of the northern sagebrush ecosystem and greater sage-grouse habitat in this...

This Project Grant award of $611,225.00 was provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731). The grant was awarded on January 13, 2025 to The Blackfoot Challenge Inc., a non-profit organization in Ovando, Montana, and is scheduled for completion by December 31, 2029. The funding will support a range of climate mitigation and forest resilience activities across the Blackfoot River Valley,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife (CFDA 15.631) program to The Blackfoot Challenge Inc., a non-profit organization, to support conservation of fish and wildlife habitat in the Blackfoot watershed of Montana. The funding will be used to restore priority grassland and sagebrush habitats by removing invasive species and encroaching conifers, which will benefit federal trust species such as migratory birds. This...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $150,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) to the World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (WWF) to support grassland restoration and bison habitat expansion on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana. The funding will be used to construct 7 miles of wildlife-friendly bison fencing, which will add 5,462 acres of intact grassland to the bison grazing habitat. Over the next 5 years, the project will also work...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) provides $387,614 to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization in Montana, to retain approximately 14,260 acres of grassland habitat at risk of being converted to cropland. The project aims to restore perennial native vegetation cover on marginal cropland embedded within and around intact grasslands, and transition these...

This is a Formula Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6, under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education program (CFDA 15.611). The $953,253 grant will fund projects to reduce bear and human conflict in high-conflict areas in Colorado over a 3-year period from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The Department of Natural Resources Colorado is the primary grantee, and will collaborate with the County of Summit as a sub-grantee to...