Deadline: 03-Feb-2025
The BLM Cultural Heritage and Paleontology Programs coordinate management, preservation, education and outreach efforts, economic opportunities, and public uses of a fragile, non-renewable scientific record that represents an important component of America’s heritage.
The BLM Colorado Cultural Heritage and Paleontology Programs seek to establish partnerships that collaboratively encourage the public to learn about and engage with heritage resources in Colorado, with the goals of building a meaningful conservation stewardship legacy through expanding recreation opportunities on public lands, working to ensure meaningful consultation and self-determination for Tribes, enhancing visitor experience on public lands by better meeting our infrastructure and maintenance needs, and eliminating unnecessary steps and duplicative reviews while maintaining rigorous environmental standards.
Paleontology Programs achieve these goals by:
- Protecting and preserving cultural heritage and paleontological resources for the benefit of future generations;
- Improving professional and/or public understanding of the nation’s cultural and natural history;
- Providing educational, recreational, and economic opportunities for local communities and the public;
- Increasing Native American access to locations and natural resources important to traditional cultural practices and beliefs; and
- Managing heritage resource collections and associated records to appropriate standards, and providing access to the public and Native Americans.
- Identify opportunities for repatriation of ancestors and objects in museum collections to descendant Native American tribes;
Program Goals
- Inventory paleontological resources in support of managing resources using scientific principles and expertise and for informing the public about the importance of paleontological resources.
- Inventory cultural resources, as necessary for understanding the nature and extent of cultural resources on public lands.
- Repatriate Native American human remains and cultural items to culturally affiliated Indian tribes and ensure that required inventories and summaries are completed.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $50,000
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than federally recognized tribal governments)
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education
For more information, visit Grants.gov.