Cooperative Agreement L16AC00122

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224), provides $209,690.45 to Portland State University (PSU) to facilitate collaborative ethnographic research with tribal nations regarding their ancestral homelands within the Red Rock and Sloan Canyon National Conservation Areas in Nevada. The key products and services to be delivered under this award...

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...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224), provides $398,703.41 in funding to the University of New Mexico's Office of Contract Archeology (OCA UNM) for a two-part research project. The first goal is to conduct an intensive archaeological survey of the Cornudas Mountains in southern New Mexico, which are known to contain a diversity of archaeological sites and petroglyphs. OCA UNM...

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...

The Bureau of Land Management's Oregon-Washington office awarded Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers, Inc. a $256,980.43 cooperative agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act program (CFDA 15.234) from June 2023 through June 2028. Through this award, Partnership for the Umpqua Rivers will provide natural resource management and watershed restoration services to promote recovery from the devastating Archie Creek Fire in Oregon. Specific deliverables include...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $324,324.22 Cooperative Agreement under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243) to the Northwest Youth Corps (NYC) on January 13, 2025. The purpose of the award is to support the work of the Roseburg District through the project titled "Northwest Youth Corps Restoration Improvement of Public Areas Douglas County, OR". Under the guidance of BLM staff, NYC teens and young adult crews will carry out trail...

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...

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 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....

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...