This project aims to address water management challenges resulting from fire exclusion in western US conifer forests and interactions with climate change
Active Cooperative Agreement Awarded
- Award ID
- L24AC00315
- Recipient
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University Of New Mexico UEI F6XLTRUQJEN4
- Awarding agency
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National Office
Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
- Obligated
- $629,326
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 15.232 Joint Fire Science Program
- Completion date 76% complete
- Funding
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- $484,890.00 Federal
- $144,436.00 Non-federal
- Funding agency
- Idaho Region Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
- Place of performance
- New Mexico, USA
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About this award
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region, under the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232), provides $629,326 to study the water quality impacts of prescribed fire in western US conifer forests. The project aims to address uncertainties around how prescribed fire usage for forest restoration, in response to increasing wildfire size and severity due to climate change, may affect water quality. The study will examine interactions between prescribed fire, precipitation, runoff, spatial heterogeneity of fire effects, material export to streams, and threshold responses to fire, in two headwater watersheds within the Teakettle Experimental Forest in California. The award period runs from September 2024 through June 2027, with the goal of enhancing understanding of these processes to inform future forest management decisions.
Description
Prescribed fire usage for forest restoration has risen with increasing wildfire size and severity due to increasing aridity and build up of fuels. While prescribed fires have clear ecological benefits concerns remain about potential tradeoffs with water quality. This project will study water quality responses to prescribed fire in two headwater watersheds within the teakettle experimental forest in california focusing on four key sources of uncertainty including (1) interactions with variable precipitation and runoff (2) spatial heterogeneity of fire effects (3) spatiotemporal complexities of material export to streams and (4) threshold responses to fire. The study will enhance our understanding of these processes to provide valuable insights for future forest management decisions.
Quick answers
Who received award L24AC00315?
L24AC00315 was awarded to University Of New Mexico by National Office (Bureau of Land Management) on September 3, 2024.
How much is award L24AC00315 worth?
$629,326 has been obligated on L24AC00315: $484,890 in federal funding and $144,436 in non-federal funding.
Which agency awarded L24AC00315?
National Office (Bureau of Land Management) awarded L24AC00315, with funding from Idaho Region (Bureau of Land Management).
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