This $115,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Aquatics Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) will provide implementation, monitoring, and strategy integration capacity to support BLM offices and partners in southern Utah. The funding will be used to accelerate watershed restoration, including low-tech process-based riparian restoration efforts, across high-priority landscapes in the region. Over the next five years, the project aims to implement 20...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) provides $2,000,000 to Utah State University to establish a Healthy Riverscapes Initiative. The initiative aims to restore degraded stream channels on BLM-managed public lands to improve climate resilience, protect biodiversity, and increase benefits such as water quantity, water quality, habitat, recreation, and carbon sequestration. Key project components include...
This $9,906,107 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) will enable The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to increase the scope and speed of low-tech process-based restoration in key western watersheds. Over the 5-year period from September 2023 to September 2028, TNC will work with BLM offices in up to seven landscapes across Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, and Utah to implement over 100 riparian and wet...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $1,752,710 Cooperative Agreement to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) to provide implementation and monitoring support for the Dillon Field Office and accelerate conservation actions across public and private lands within the Missouri Headwaters Restoration Landscape. The key products and services to be delivered through this 5-year award include: 1) Removal of conifer expansion, 2)...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $3,768,283 from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) aims to improve drought resiliency, promote aquatic connectivity, and conserve ecosystems and habitats in Idaho. The funding will be used by the prime awardee, Trout Unlimited, Inc., to design and install low-tech restoration treatments such as beaver dam analogues, post-assisted log structures, and riparian fencing, as well as implement aquatic...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has awarded a $4,100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Bureau of Land Management Foundation, doing business as the Foundation for America's Public Lands, under the Management Initiatives Federal Grant Program (CFDA 15.239). This five-year award, with a period of performance from January 17, 2025 to January 16, 2030, will support two primary tasks: The Foundation will provide two funding opportunities for BLM partners to submit proposals for restoration projects...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award of $253,408 was provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Aquatics Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) to the Malheur Watershed Council in Oregon. The award will fund the Pole Creek Project, which aims to restore aquatic habitat and improve upland range biodiversity to enhance the drainage's resilience to climate change impacts such as wildfire, drought, and floods. The project objectives are to restore aquatic resources affected by...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the Bureau of Reclamation's Cooperative Watershed Management Program (CFDA 15.554) supports the Headwaters of the Colorado (HOC) Initiative, a multi-stakeholder collaboration focused on building resilient and functioning forested headwaters within the Little Snake and Yampa watersheds in Wyoming and Colorado. The funding will enable the HOC partnership, which includes federal and state land management agencies, private landowners, and local community...
This $715,326.42 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the Bureau of Land Management's Aquatic Resources Management program (CFDA 15.244) will fund the restoration of instream and riparian habitats across 25 miles of stream in four sub-watersheds of the Quinn River Management Unit in Nevada. The project aims to increase the resiliency of the Lahontan cutthroat trout, an ESA-listed species, to climate change, mining, and other stressors, as well as reconnect the trout to larger habitat fragments....
Under a $1,072,400 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Aquatic Resources Management Program (CFDA 15.244), the University of Montana's O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West will perform the following key activities over a 5-year period from September 2024 to September 2029: Conduct inventory, monitoring, and assessment of riparian and wetland habitats in Idaho, including random and targeted surveys using standardized AIM protocols. This will contribute to...