Cooperative Agreement L22AC00295

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.247 Wildlife Resource Management program, provides $268,000 in funding to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) over a 5-year period from September 2024 to September 2029. The key objectives are to: 1) Conduct ground-truthing surveys on prioritized wildlife tracts in 2025 to validate previous IDFG habitat assessments, and 2) Implement habitat improvement...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229) provides $2,177,250 in funding to Forever Branded, a non-profit organization, from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029. The key objectives of this project are to: 1) Provide humane care and effective training for wild horses and burros to facilitate their successful and lasting placement in private care settings, 2) Educate the public about the...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229). The $477,929.33 award, effective October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2029, supports the Meeker Mustang Makeover organization's efforts to increase the capacity and reach of its training clinics and competition events, reduce the number of wild horses in holding facilities, increase successful adoptions, and raise public awareness...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229), provides $494,092 to Purdue University to develop an improved immunocontraceptive vaccine for female wild horses. The key objectives are to: (1) develop a vaccine targeting the sperm protein IZUMO1 to induce a robust immune response; (2) replace traditional adjuvants with a novel nanoparticle-based adjuvant;...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $519,736 Cooperative Agreement to Teens And Oregon Mustangs, Inc. under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229). This 5-year award aims to provide life-changing experiences for trainers of all ages through the development of leadership, horsemanship, and teamwork skills, while educating the public about the training and adoption of America's wild mustangs. Key program elements include...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229), will provide $142,865 over a 5-year period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2029 to the non-profit organization Mustang Yearlings / Washington Youth. The funding will support annual placement of nearly 50 trained, excess wild horses and burros into safe and humane environments through a competition event and/or final auction. The project aims...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $2,528,718 Cooperative Agreement to Backcountry Hunters & Anglers (BHA), a non-profit conservation organization, through the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). Over a 5-year period from September 2023 to September 2028, the funding will support a dedicated team of 3 full-time BHA staff to inventory, modify, and remove fencing on BLM lands across the western U.S. Key deliverables include: Inventory and map the status of 1,000...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $1,815,756 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Montana's O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). The project will support the acquisition of consistently collected, high-quality terrestrial resource monitoring data on BLM-managed lands in Idaho. Key activities include conducting terrestrial inventory, assessment, and monitoring; developing and improving the monitoring program...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237) to the Colorado First Conservation District. The agreement will fund the hiring of trained and experienced personnel to conduct a vegetation production study within a Herd Management Area (HMA) in Colorado. The study will follow BLM Technical Reference 1734-7, Ecological Site Inventory, Chapter 4, and will deliver plot locations, field data, and estimated...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wild Horse and Burro Resource Management program (CFDA 15.229), provides $128,000.00 in funding to the County of Sacramento, California to establish a Wild Horse Program (WHP) at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center (RCCC). The program trains incarcerated participants to gentle and saddle-train wild horses removed from public lands. The trained horses are then adopted into private care or placed with law...