Cooperative Agreement L24AC00458

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) provides $143,280.00 to the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) to conduct research and conservation efforts for the recovery of the Butte County meadowfoam (Limnanthes floccosa ssp. californica). The award will fund pollination studies, including pollinator observations, and test the management technique of...

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808), supports the development of spatial modeling tools to understand changes in sagebrush vegetation dynamics across the western U.S. over time and space. The $250,000 award to Colorado State University will leverage statistical analyses, connectivity models, and GIS tools to: Evaluate the drivers and ecological conditions associated with invasions of annual...

The Fall River Resource Conservation District will receive $100,000 through a Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8. The funding supports projects under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program to address habitat restoration needs across 4,500 acres in Shasta County, California. Key work will include installing grade control structures to address head cuts and gullies causing water loss across 300 acres of wet meadows on the...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) received a $217,536 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program. The grant will support CDFW's efforts to evaluate the effects of the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire and fire suppression activities on the recovery of two endangered plant species native to the Santa Cruz Mountains: Santa Cruz cypress...

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. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the County of Baker, in Oregon, to implement conservation actions that increase the quality and quantity of sagebrush habitat and reverse the sage-grouse population trend in the Baker County Priority Area for Conservation (PAC). The grant funds will be used to implement Tier 1 projects, which include removing juniper from high priority...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $295,168 to Oregon State University to conduct a field study examining how sage grouse utilize and benefit from the restoration of mesic (moist) habitats in southeast Oregon. The project aims to 1) measure changes in sage grouse space use around restored mesic resources before and after restoration, and 2) assess...

The Calaveras and Amador Counties Forest Stewardship Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Forest and Woodlands Resource Management Program (CFDA 15.233), provides $394,326.25 in funding from September 2024 to August 2027. This award to the Calaveras County Resource Conservation District will support forest management and conservation activities across approximately 58 million acres of forests and woodlands in 12 western...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 awarded a $3.1 million Project Grant to the State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, doing business as the Wildlife Conservation Board, on September 9, 2021 with a completion date of November 30, 2022. The grant was awarded under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615) to support conservation activities for multiple species covered under the San Diego County Multiple Species...

The Scott River Watershed Council, a non-profit organization, received a $152,500 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the National Fire Plan-Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance program (CFDA 15.674). The goal of this 4-year project is to make lands adjacent to the communities of Fort Jones, Etna, and Callahan, California more resilient to wildfire while concurrently restoring and conserving habitat for oak-associated...