Cooperative Agreement L13AC00226

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. 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...

Federal Cooperative Agreement Award Summary The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $310,570 Cooperative Agreement to Oregon State University under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2029. This four-year project, titled "PNWCESU Sage-Grouse Response to Little Mountain Prescribed Burns Habitat Use and Movement WY," will be performed in Wyoming and focuses on monitoring and assessing greater sage-grouse...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Oregon-Washington Region, awarded a $206,851.49 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Phoenix School of Roseburg, a non-profit organization. The Cooperative Agreement provides funding for the Oregon Youth Corps program, which engages local youth ages 16-26 to perform recreation site maintenance, trail restoration, and forest health activities on BLM-administered lands in the Roseburg...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) will provide $246,662.32 in funding to Lincoln County, Nevada to develop and implement the Southern Lincoln County Habitat Conservation Plan (SLCHCP). The 5-year award, effective September 22, 2023, will support a SLCHCP administrator position responsible for designing and executing mitigation projects on both private and BLM-managed lands to offset...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $274,176 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) to Discover Your Northwest, a non-profit organization based in Seattle, WA. The Cooperative Agreement funds the delivery of a youth wildfire education program in central Oregon, including a curriculum focused on fire ecology, mitigating wildfire risks, and fostering responsible fire behavior and community safety practices....

This $105,446 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation Program (CFDA 15.657) funds the Baker Sagegrouse Local Implementation Team (Baker LIT) to strategically implement conservation actions to increase the quality and quantity of sagebrush habitat and reverse the Baker County sage-grouse population decline in Oregon. Key activities include treating invasive annual grasses and noxious weeds, enhancing nesting and...

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 Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior awarded a $145,366.80 Cooperative Agreement to the Linn County Board of Commissioners to continue a partnership established in 2001 enabling Linn County youth to complete community service hours on public lands. This work under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program (CFDA 15.234) will allow Linn County youth to gain valuable experience in forest fuels reduction, noxious weed control, construction and...

The Bureau of Land Management, under its Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act program (CFDA 15.234), awarded Antfarm DBA Redwind a $195,584 cooperative agreement to engage youth in conservation and land management efforts on public lands in Oregon from February 2022 through February 2025. Specifically, young people will remove noxious plant species from targeted sites, clean up abandoned campsites and dispose of garbage, perform infrastructure and trail maintenance work, and...