Deadline: 28-Feb-2025
The BLM California Threatened and Endangered Species Program focuses on implementing the Department of Interior’s priorities by emphasizing actions that: protect biodiversity; slow species extinction rates; increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions; contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by the year 2030.
Program Goals
- Implementing proactive conservation and recovery actions that result in a direct on the ground population or conservation benefit for BLM special status species.
- Providing complete, current, and accurate information on the distribution and abundance of BLM special status species to assess and mediate threats to species/habitats or support proactive conservation and recovery efforts for BLM Special Status Species.
- Increasing public knowledge of BLM Special Status Species.
- The Program’s Strategic Goals include:
- Conserving and recovering federally-listed and BLM sensitive species;
- Implementing conservation and recovery actions that result in a direct on the ground population or conservation benefit;
- Providing complete, current and accurate information on the distribution and abundance of BLM Special Status Species and their habitats to increase professional and public knowledge and understanding of these resources;
- Collecting data and other information to inform the development and implementation of proactive conservation and recovery efforts (consistent with ESA section 7(a)(1) or best management practices/design features for BLM Special Status Species.
- Increasing public knowledge of BLM Special Status Species and their habitats;
- Increasing public awareness and understanding of BLM Special Status species and their habitats on public and private lands; and,
- Engaging youth, citizen-scientists, and students in monitoring and directed research of various BLM Special Status species and their habitats.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $40,000
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.
