The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $140,303 five-year Cooperative Agreement to Oregon State University under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to support the establishment of the East Cascades Native Plant Hub in Bend, Oregon. The hub will coordinate a regional network to address organizational, ecological, and financial challenges in restoration and revegetation of sagebrush ecosystems, with a focus on increasing the availability of...
This $135,250 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) will support the Central Washington Seeds of Success Collection Project. The Institute for Applied Ecology, a non-profit organization, will hire a 3-person crew to collect wild native seed from sagebrush steppe habitat sites in accordance with the Seeds of Success protocols. These collected seeds will be used to grow plant plugs, conduct larger-scale...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631), provides $106,466.00 to the Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission to restore up to 1,000 acres of native sage steppe habitat in the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park. The project aims to remove non-native species and reseed the treated areas with native shrubs, grasses, and forbs. This effort will benefit numerous...
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...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) will provide $295,168 to Oregon State University (OSU) to study the impact of mesic habitat restoration on greater sage-grouse populations in southeast Oregon. The award will support a rigorously designed before-after-control-impact (BACI) field study to examine 1) how space use changes around restored mesic resources...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) provides supplemental resources to expand an existing project focused on increasing the availability of native plant seed for habitat restoration efforts in the New Mexico High Plains region. The $111,278 award to the Institute for Applied Ecology, a non-profit conservation organization, aims to increase the supply of native...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, through its Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $200,306 Cooperative Agreement to The Understory Initiative, a woman-owned non-profit organization based in Medford, Oregon. This 3-year award, effective from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2027, supports activities to increase native plant habitat along Oregon's coastline. Key products and services to be delivered include: Provision of technical...
The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Species Conservation Office Of under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The award will support the Idaho Sage-Grouse Actions Team to undertake restoration actions and secure species information to help prevent the need to list the sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act. As outlined in the program description, funding...
The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $105,446 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to the Tri County Cwma, a local government entity in Oregon. The purpose of this award is to support the implementation of the Baker Sagegrouse Local Implementation Team's (Baker LIT) strategic action plan to increase the quality and quantity of sagebrush habitat and reverse sage-grouse population declines in Baker...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.245 Plant Conservation and Restoration Management program provides $125,819.44 to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to address native plant seed availability and cultivation challenges in the sagebrush ecosystem of the Western U.S. Over 5 years, TNC will: Conduct scientific experiments integrated into seed increase fields to identify and address barriers to cultivating high-priority native plant species...