Cooperative Agreement L20AC00524

The Pueblo of Santa Ana received a $192,812 Project Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 under the Tribal Wildlife Grants program (CFDA 15.639). The grant will support the Pueblo in capturing and GPS collaring six mountain lions on its lands to monitor predation events and identify prey species killed. Mountain lion movements will also be tracked to identify wildlife corridors. This data will help the Pueblo identify individual lions negatively...

This Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 grant, awarded under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611), will fund a 5-year, $3,214,908 study by the Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Division to identify factors influencing contact between wild and domestic sheep. The study aims to expand tools for maintaining effective separation to prevent disease transmission, and evaluate opportunities for expanding wild...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides $848,340.54 in funding to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc. to support expanded grazing management and grassland conservation efforts in Montana. The five-year project, running from September 2024 to September 2029, focuses on implementing grazing improvements, restoring native vegetation, enhancing habitat for...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 awarded a $2,665,772 Formula Grant under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) to the Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Division. This 5-year grant, awarded on July 1, 2023, will support the development of an adaptive management framework for bighorn sheep and mountain goats in Montana. The framework will incorporate predictive models, targeted monitoring, and a...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $166,833.34 Cooperative Agreement to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc. under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) on December 1, 2023. The goal of this 5-year project is to improve sagebrush and grassland habitat for sage-grouse, sagebrush songbirds, grassland songbirds, big game, and other priority wildlife in Montana's Northern Great Plains. Key activities include collaborating with local landowners to implement voluntary...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program (CFDA 15.631) provides $387,614 to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization in Montana, to retain approximately 14,260 acres of grassland habitat at risk of being converted to cropland. The project aims to restore perennial native vegetation cover on marginal cropland embedded within and around intact grasslands, and transition these...

The Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 awarded a $868,519 Formula Grant under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) to the Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks Division. The purpose of this 5-year grant, effective July 1, 2023, is to develop statewide tools and methodologies for marten monitoring and management, including: Updating and refining a statewide habitat model for marten; Analyzing genetic samples to assess the...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6 awarded a $2,280,354 Formula Grant to the Montana Fish, Wildlife, & Parks Department on January 1, 2022 for a project period ending December 31, 2026. The grant supports evaluation of Highland Bighorn Sheep population management under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611). Specifically, the grant funds two actions to facilitate increased lamb survival and population growth for...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631) provides $162,000.00 in funding to the Ranchers Stewardship Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization in Montana, for a project focused on improving livestock water infrastructure and grazing management flexibility in North Valley County, Montana. The project aims to support conservation of the northern sagebrush ecosystem and greater sage-grouse habitat in this...

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...