Cooperative Agreement L24AC00219

The U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $627,110 Cooperative Agreement (CFDA 15.228 - BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities) to Oregon State University to restore sagebrush rangelands dominated by invasive annual grasses. The project will use a combination of precision conservation tools and dormant season grazing regimens to generate science-based data to better manage fine fuels on sagebrush rangelands. Key objectives...

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 (BLM) awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237) to the Otero Soil & Water Conservation District in New Mexico. The objective of this 1-year project is to be part of a multi-agency effort for the control of noxious and invasive weeds. Key activities include: 1) Inventorying and treating noxious weeds, 2) Restoring native vegetation, and 3) Developing educational materials on noxious weed...

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District will implement hazardous fuels reduction, defensible space creation, ecological improvements, and habitat restoration on 100 to 200 acres of land along the Mount Rose Corridor in Nevada. Funded activities under the $801,838 cooperative agreement from the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management include removing dead brush and timber, thinning live brush and timber, eliminating ladder fuels, and restoring aspen stands. Additional work...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region), awarded a $279,200 Cooperative Agreement to Sheridan County Weed & Pest Control under the Good Neighbor Authority program (CFDA 10.691) on June 3, 2025. The award funds a Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Weed Management Project for the Elk Fire recovery effort across National Forest System lands and adjacent Sheridan County lands in Wyoming through May 28, 2030. The primary deliverables include aerial...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Nevada Region awarded a $125,000 Cooperative Agreement to Eureka County, Nevada under the Invasive and Noxious Plant Management program (CFDA 15.230) from September 11, 2022 through September 10, 2027. Under this award, Eureka County will coordinate and perform noxious and invasive weed control on BLM-administered lands in Nevada, including inventory and mapping of weed species, treatment of identified weeds subject to time and funding...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237) provides $112,500.00 to the Sierra Soil & Water Conservation District (SSWCD) to conduct invasive weed control efforts in New Mexico. The objective is to coordinate with multiple jurisdictions and stakeholders to aerially treat 2,773 acres of creosote-infested rangeland on the W Spear Bar Ranch in Engle, New Mexico using the herbicide Spike 20P. SSWCD...

The cooperative agreement between the US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University will provide $259,744 to study the effectiveness of fuel treatments in reducing wildfire impacts and altering fire regimes in sagebrush ecosystems from August 2021 to June 2024. As part of the Agricultural Research Service's Agricultural Research Basic and Applied Research program, the project aims to increase understanding of how fuel treatments impact subsequent wildfire...

The Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD), in cooperation with the Carson City Fire Department (CCFD), received a $779,497.87 Cooperative Agreement from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program (CFDA 15.228). The funding will support a multi-pronged effort to address the threat of wildfires in the communities of New Washoe City, East Washoe Valley, and Northeast Carson City, Nevada. The key products and services to be...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management, through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), has awarded a $499,850 cooperative agreement to Colorado State University to conduct research on the landscape-level effects of fuel treatments on wildfire activity, behavior, and suppression operations. The 3-year project aims to: (1) quantify how landscape-level fuel treatments influence daily area burned, fire behavior observations, and fire severity; (2) analyze how fuel...