Cooperative Agreement L22AC00201

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $2,606,862.14 Cooperative Agreement to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization based in Ashland, Oregon. The funding is provided through the BLM's Forest and Woodlands Resource Management program (CFDA 15.233) and will support the implementation of the Rogue Basin Cohesive Forest Restoration Strategy and the Klamath-Siskiyou Strategic Conservation Action Plan. The Cooperative Agreement will fund 250 acres of oak...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $627,110 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228) to Oregon State University (OSU). The five-year project aims to restore sagebrush rangelands dominated by invasive annual grasses and develop science-based tools for BLM to better manage fine fuels on public lands. The key project objectives include: 1) establishing sampling protocols to generate...

This $129,910.30 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228), aims to reduce the abundance of exotic annual grasses within the Upper Rogue Oak Initiative project area in southwest Oregon. The Understory Initiative, a woman-owned non-profit organization, will collaborate with BLM to strategically apply prescribed burning and follow-up herbicide treatments to clear meadows of invasive...

The Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington awarded a $600,000 cooperative agreement to the Oregon Department of Forestry from April 2023 through September 2027 under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228). The award will support the Oregon Watershed Restoration Authority IIJA Upper Applegate Watershed Project. As part of the BLM's Fuels Management Program, which provides strategic investments to reduce wildfire risks, the project activities...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $432,366.68 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization in Oregon. The funding supports a 3-year project to implement important maintenance treatments on 120 acres of BLM lands adjacent to the city of Jacksonville, OR. Key activities include ecological thinning, lopping and scattering, hand pile burning, and prescribed under...

The Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization, will receive $1,000,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The funding will support continued maintenance of severely fire-prone areas within the Ashland All-Lands Forest Restoration project boundaries above Ashland, Oregon through activities such as...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $125,000 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF). The award, effective from October 21, 2024 to October 20, 2027, will support the implementation of fuels reduction treatments on private lands and the development of a wildfire prevention and education campaign. Funding may also be allocated to support prescribed fire efforts,...

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $281,264.44 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) to Greenbelt Land Trust, Inc. This funding supports the organization's efforts to restore oak habitats, promote healthy conifer forests, and manage a climate-resilient landscape. Key project activities include: Reducing flammable brush and ladder fuels on approximately 80 acres of forest edge and...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $237,157.61 Cooperative Agreement under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) to the Owyhee Irrigation District in Oregon. The project aims to create and expand a sustainable wildfire safety zone by reducing fuels and restoring critical access routes for maintenance and emergency fire response. Key activities include improving and restoring access to routes used for power distribution,...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228) will provide $219,999.00 to the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) to accomplish 150 acres of BLM land and 200 acres of private lands requiring fuel treatments in and around the Agate communities adjacent to the East Antelope Road corridor. ODF will lead community outreach efforts, facilitate biomass collection where...