This $1,089,489.01 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), will provide early career botanists and vegetation restoration professionals with opportunities to support post-fire erosion control and landscape wildfire resiliency efforts on Department of the Interior lands across the western United States. The award recipient, The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps...
This $1,189,339.20 Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.243 Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program, supports conservation and resource management projects on public lands in Nevada. The project will further the BLM's existing partnerships with the Elko District Office to deliver restoration landscape work. Key activities include habitat restoration, wildlife monitoring, invasive species management, and environmental...
This $342,760.50 Cooperative Agreement award was provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Plant Conservation and Restoration Management program (CFDA 15.245). The award supports the University of Wyoming in conducting the following key activities over the 4-year period from September 2024 to September 2028: Developing genetically appropriate native plant material seed for use in habitat restoration projects. Implementing and assessing seed-based...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA 15.243 - Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program provides up to $136,000.00 to support a project that will engage youth in natural resource management activities in New Mexico. The award will fund up to four Native Plant Materials Interns annually to perform tasks such as seed monitoring, seed scouting, seed collection, data management, broadcast seeding, site preparation, and...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with ID L24AC00516, is provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243). The $114,548.78 award will support the Great Basin Institute's (GBI) partnership with the BLM Lakeview Field Office to hire research associates each year to conduct native seed collection work across assigned regions. The award has a performance period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028. The program...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $733,965 Cooperative Agreement under the Plant Conservation and Restoration Management program (CFDA 15.245) to the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education, operating through the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). The award, effective from January 15, 2025 to January 14, 2030, supports the following key products and services: Developing genetically appropriate native plant material seed for use in habitat restoration efforts across...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management under the Plant Conservation and Restoration Management program (CFDA 15.245), will fund native plant conservation, restoration, and research activities across public lands in California. The $218,342 award, effective from September 6, 2024 to September 6, 2026, will be implemented by Willamette University, a private liberal arts institution in Salem, Oregon. The project aims to...
This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $2,215,745.95, is provided by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243). The funding will support The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps division in delivering a range of natural resource management services across Nevada BLM districts. Key activities include enhancing and conserving rangelands to combat climate change through grazing management, vegetation...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the CFDA program "Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands" (15.243) provides $287,364.95 to Gem Environmental NFP, a non-profit organization based in Prescott, Arizona. The project will engage four youth from New Mexico in hands-on conservation work and natural resource management training with the BLM's Abandoned Mine Lands program. The goal is to provide work...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243) provides $255,876.46 to Utah State University (USU) to perform a range of conservation and restoration activities on public lands. Key project objectives include installing 100 stream restoration structures, 25 wet meadow restoration structures, planting 2 acres of perennial forbs, and conducting noxious weed inventory and control across 500...