Cooperative Agreement L19AC00159

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $1,031,494 Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Association of Conservation Districts Inc. (AACD) under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237). The purpose of the award is to perform assessments, inventories, and monitoring of soil and vegetation conditions on public lands in Arizona to analyze progress toward meeting land health standards and facilitate conservation and restoration of rangelands. Key project objectives include...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $312,957 cooperative agreement to the Arizona Association of Conservation Districts Inc. (AACD) under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237). The award will support AACD's delivery of services from September 2021 through September 2025 related to the Lower Colorado River Partnership Project. As part of the BLM's Rangeland Management Program, which oversees grazing on 155 million acres of public lands, the award will fund AACD's...

The University of Arizona was awarded a $153,719 Cooperative Agreement by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237) to conduct research on the use of virtual fence (VF) technology on the Agua Fria National Monument. The research aims to (1) evaluate the effects of VF on excluding livestock from threatened and endangered species habitat, and (2) determine factors influencing livestock distribution. The project will collect and analyze...

The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management will provide restoration and protection services on federal land under a $2.2 million cooperative agreement awarded by the US Department of Agriculture Forest Service Southwestern Region. The award was made through the Good Neighbor Authority federal grant program (CFDA #10.691), which permits state agencies to perform such services. Over the four-year period from May 2022 to December 2026, the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Inflation Reduction Act Landscape Scale Restoration program (CFDA 10.731) to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (FOA), a state government entity. The grant supports climate mitigation, forest resilience practices, and engagement of underserved forest landowners in emerging environmental markets across Arizona. Key activities funded include cost-sharing for forestry practices like...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $11,640,404.30 Cooperative Agreement on September 15, 2023 to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, doing business as FOA, through the Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes program (CFDA 10.724). This funding supports various wildfire prevention, mitigation, and ecosystem restoration activities across Arizona, including hazardous fuels reduction, prescribed burning, reforestation, habitat enhancement, and climate...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) provides $580,000 to Sky Island Alliance to assess, plan, and restore priority riparian areas and natural springs in southern Arizona over a 5-year period ending August 2029. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) assessing up to 15 priority riparian areas and springs annually using...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service has awarded a $2,033,970 Cooperative Agreement to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management (FOA) under the Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes program (CFDA 10.724). This funding will support timber sale preparation activities in Arizona from September 12, 2023 through September 30, 2028. The Wildfire Crisis Strategy Landscapes program was established through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides $288,704 to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD) to assess the impact of solar energy development, the proposed I-11 corridor, and urban development on wildlife movement and connectivity in Arizona. The project will collect GPS tracking data from four wildlife species - Sonoran pronghorn, mule deer, bobcat, and kit fox - to identify and...

This Project Grant award from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture totals $100,000 to create a spatially-explicit, web-based decision support tool to inform sustainable grazing land management decisions. Funded under the Renewable Resources Extension Act program (CFDA 10.515), the tool will combine remotely-sensed rangeland production data with user-defined local knowledge to assess forage availability variability and support grazing management planning....