Cooperative Agreement L14AC00384

This $144,768 cooperative agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides funding to The Institute for Bird Populations to document the presence and seasonal trends of pinyon jay and other pinyon-juniper-sagebrush ecosystem bird species in Utah's Richfield Field Office. The project aims to study the effects of pinyon-juniper land treatments on avian diversity and sensitive species,...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides $400,000 in funding to the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory, doing business as Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, to expand bird monitoring efforts on BLM lands in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The project aims to provide robust population estimates for migratory birds, including those of conservation concern, at various spatial scales to inform...

The Bureau of Land Management Utah Region awarded a $150,000 cooperative agreement to Utah State University under the Wildlife Resource Management federal grant program (CFDA 15.247) to analyze strategies for improving Utah prairie dog translocation success. Over the 2022-2027 period of performance, USU will statistically analyze five years of data from the BLM Cedar City Field Office's ongoing studies testing various translocation methods. USU will then devise a two-year research strategy...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $198,880.46 Cooperative Agreement to the Great Basin Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization, under the Department of the Interior's Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). The funding supports the integration of wildlife occurrence data, specifically land bird data, into BLM's Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) program across 125-150 sites in the Great Basin region. Key objectives include: Collecting land bird occurrence...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 awarded a $7,015,000 Formula Grant to the State of Utah, Division of Wildlife Resources on July 31, 2023 under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (CFDA 15.611) program. The grant funding will support the acquisition of the 3,000-acre Black Hawk property, which provides critical wetland habitat along the Great Salt Lake for migratory birds and other wildlife. The acquisition will permanently protect this...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $260,000 and issued by the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (CFDA Program 15.247 - Wildlife Resource Management), supports The Nature Conservancy (TNC) in developing and updating vegetation maps, vegetation modeling, and habitat suitability assessments for greater sage-grouse and Utah prairie dogs on public lands in Utah. The key objectives are to: 1) update vegetation maps and modeling for the Hamlin Valley and Bald Hills...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224) provides $482,100 to the Utah State Library Division to partner with the BLM Utah Heritage Program. The key objectives are to: preserve heritage resources, increase their resilience to climate change, contribute to conserving 30% of U.S. lands and waters by 2030, and engage underserved communities. The...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $300,000 Cooperative Agreement to Texas A&M AgriLife Research under the Threatened and Endangered Species (CFDA 15.246) program. The goal of the project is 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. The researchers plan to establish 150-180 point-count locations through selected Gunnison's sage-grouse...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded Klamath Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization, a $199,782.11 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) program on April 1, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to study the effects of invasive blackberry density on riparian bird abundance, territory density, nest success, nestling growth rates, and local insect abundance. The findings will help determine if removal...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $350,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) to the Washington County Water Conservancy District (dba Water Conservatory) to support the Virgin River Resource Management and Recovery Program in Utah. This 5-year award, effective from August 2024 to August 2029, will fund activities to enhance, protect, and recover endangered and sensitive fish species in the Virgin River system, including Virgin River...