This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provides $960,604.66 in funding to Portland State University (PSU) from Sep 20, 2024 to Sep 19, 2029 under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). The award supports comprehensive wildlife conservation and habitat restoration efforts across public lands in the western United States, including monitoring, research, and assessments focused on wildlife populations and...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247), awarded a $5,075,487.58 cooperative agreement to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to provide implementation, monitoring, and strategy integration capacity to improve climate resilience and habitat quality in Idaho. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: 1) conserving water at natural sources through infrastructure improvements; 2) protecting water sources, streams,...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $1,500,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) to the Regents of the University of Idaho (UI). The project will work closely with local BLM offices to assess and document the trajectory of restoration projects designed to improve priority wildlife habitat in Idaho. UI will utilize field-based and drone-based monitoring to evaluate projects at the site and landscape level, and develop a method for...
The federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID L24AC00444, was provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246). The $142,000 award to the Institute for Applied Ecology, a non-profit organization based in Corvallis, Oregon, supports the conservation, research, and protection of federally listed and sensitive species across BLM-managed public lands in the Oregon-Washington region. The 5-year award, with a start date of August...
The University of Montana's O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West was awarded a $1,815,756 Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). The primary goal of this 5-year project is to support the acquisition of consistently collected, high-quality terrestrial resource monitoring data that accurately reflects the diversity and condition of wildlife habitats on BLM-managed lands in Idaho. Key activities and...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $268,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247). The agreement supports a two-year project to manage and enhance wildlife habitat on BLM lands designated as "wildlife tracts" in south-central Idaho. In the first year, a wildlife technician will conduct ground surveys to validate previous habitat prioritization efforts. In the second year, the...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $599,761.30 Cooperative Agreement to Portland State University (PSU) on May 15, 2024 under the Rangeland Resource Management program (CFDA 15.237). The funding supports the collection of standardized riparian and wetland monitoring data, as well as opportunistic invasive and rare plant surveys and seed collections across public lands in the Oregon-Washington region. This data will inform land management and restoration needs for the BLM. The...
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 $642,640.14 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.247 Wildlife Resource Management program supports a project by Montana State University (MSU) to address the growing need for natural resource conservation and biodiversity monitoring. The project aims to develop improved methods for prioritizing conservation efforts, moving beyond the traditional use of focal or surrogate species approaches. MSU will conduct research to accurately identify...
This $349,988.71 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Forest and Woodlands Resource Management Program (CFDA 15.233) supports a project to rigorously monitor the effects of science-based forest management treatments designed to restore and improve forest ecosystem function, promote wildlife habitat, and respond to climate change in the Inland Northwest and Northern Rockies region. Key activities include: Establishing a long-term vegetation monitoring network...