The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $432,366.68 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization in Oregon. The funding supports a 3-year project to implement important maintenance treatments on 120 acres of BLM lands adjacent to the city of Jacksonville, OR. Key activities include ecological thinning, lopping and scattering, hand pile burning, and prescribed under...
The Bureau of Land Management, under its Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act program (CFDA 15.234), awarded Antfarm DBA Redwind a $195,584 cooperative agreement to engage youth in conservation and land management efforts on public lands in Oregon from February 2022 through February 2025. Specifically, young people will remove noxious plant species from targeted sites, clean up abandoned campsites and dispose of garbage, perform infrastructure and trail maintenance work, and...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $121,735.38 Cooperative Agreement to Lane County, Oregon under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) program. The agreement, effective from July 23, 2024 to July 23, 2027, will support the ORWA SRS LANE JUVENILE FOREST WORK TEAM project. Through this funding, Lane County will undertake activities to improve the management and conservation of BLM-administered lands in the Oregon-Washington region, including...
The Bureau of Land Management awarded a $100,000 cooperative agreement to Josephine County, Oregon from March 1, 2022 to February 28, 2025 under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program. The county will use the funding to continue operating the annual Ross Roe Memorial Tree Plant, through which approximately 1,000 local youth in grades K-8 from 18 area schools and organizations plant seedlings on county-owned land. For over 30 years, the program has provided...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands program (CFDA 15.243), provides $324,324.22 to support the work of the Northwest Youth Corps (NYC) in the Roseburg District of Oregon. Under the guidance of BLM staff, NYC teen and young adult crews will carry out natural resource management projects such as trail maintenance, campground upkeep, vegetation management, and habitat restoration on public...
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded Klamath Bird Observatory, a non-profit organization, a $199,782.11 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) program on April 1, 2024. The objective of this 2-year project is to study the effects of invasive blackberry density on riparian bird abundance, territory density, nest success, nestling growth rates, and local insect abundance. The findings will help determine if removal...
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded a $274,176 Cooperative Agreement to Discover Your Northwest, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, under the BLM Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program Activities (CFDA 15.228). This grant supports a youth wildfire education program (K-12) in central Oregon, focused on fostering responsible fire behavior and community safety practices. The program will deliver Discover Your Forest's fire ecology curriculum, which aligns with Next...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act (CFDA 15.234) provides $149,710 to the Lomakatsi Restoration Project, a non-profit organization based in Ashland, Oregon. The funding will support post-fire riparian recovery efforts along Rock Creek within the South Obenchain Fire footprint, as well as workforce development through training and employment opportunities for tribal members in post-fire...
The Bureau of Land Management, Oregon-Washington awarded Partnership For The Umpqua Rivers, Inc. a $209,146 cooperative agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination program. The agreement will fund technical assistance and design services for the Glover Estuary and Paradise Creek watersheds through January 2025. As part of the Secure Rural Schools program, which supplements funding for schools and roads, the awardee will provide technical expertise and design work to...
The Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management Oregon-Washington awarded a $129,875.40 cooperative agreement to Partnership For The Umpqua Rivers, Inc. from November 15, 2021 to November 14, 2024 under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act program (CFDA 15.234). Under this cooperative agreement, Partnership For The Umpqua Rivers, Inc. will provide post-restoration services related to the ORWA SRS ARCHIE FIRE project located in Oregon. Specifically, the awardee...
The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management awarded a $206,851.49 Cooperative Agreement under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination (CFDA 15.234) program to the Phoenix School of Roseburg, an educational non-profit in Oregon. Through this two-year award, the Phoenix School will provide part-time and full-time youth crews to perform a variety of maintenance, restoration, and recreation site improvement projects on BLM lands in the Roseburg District. Key deliverables include 7,740 total labor hours from 60 youth crew members, 12 miles of trail maintenance, 100 downed logs removed, 40 structures repaired or installed, 5 acres of debris/vegetation clearing, 40 acres of noxious weed removal, 2,000 native plants propagated and installed, and 5 acres of fuels reduction. The project aims to create workforce development opportunities for local youth while supporting the BLM's capacity to manage public lands.