Deadline: 26-Feb-2025
The Bureau of Land Management is inviting applications for the Recreation and Visitor Services Program to provide a wide variety of recreational opportunities that benefit the public and local communities.
The program is also responsible for implementing Administration and Department priorities, including projects to improve racial equity, diversity and inclusion; help strengthen the U.S. economy; and reduce impacts to the environment and climate. The program is also prioritizing implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act; the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; the Great American Outdoors Act; the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act; Executive Order (E.O.) 13985, Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government; and E.O. 14008, Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad.
Program Goals
- In fiscal year 2025, the BLM will support the Department’s priorities by focusing on projects that build healthy communities and economies, advance environmental justice, address the climate crisis, and provide safe and equitable access to outdoor recreation opportunities for all Americans.
- Connect with youth, tribes, underserved, and nature-deprived communities to enhance access to quality recreation opportunities and foster public lands stewardship.
- Improve climate resiliency on public lands while enhancing outdoor recreation opportunities and activities.
- Identify and remove outdoor recreation barriers, expand recreation opportunities for all, and provide an enhanced, more sustainable recreation experience by delivering up-to-date and engaging visitor information online and in person.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $ 50,000
- Award Ceiling: $50,000
- Award Floor: $10,000
Activities
- BLM New Mexico has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with the following:
- Increase and enhance access to BLM public lands and waters, with a focus on, and not limited to, underserved, Tribal, and low-income youth.
- Reduce or remove transportation barriers for youth to access public lands.
- Increase and enhance recreational opportunities.
- Enhance public satisfaction at BLM recreation sites and areas.
- Collect visitor and recreation resource data by conducting inventories and visitor assessments.
- Conduct inventory, monitoring, data management, assessment and planning on BLM public lands and waters.
- Locate, inventory, monitor, survey, and nominate significant caves on BLM public lands.
- Provide enriched visitor services, information, interpretation and education, including websites.
- Protect visitor health and safety.
- Improve accessibility for persons with disabilities.
- Improve motorized and non-motorized trails including trail construction and maintenance, comprehensive travel and transportation inventory and assessment, planning, management, and monitoring.
- Enhance community-supported partnerships in tourism, marketing, and conservation.
- Strengthen relationships with sovereign Tribal nations by elevating indigenous voices on our public lands through the Native American Tourism and Improving Visitor Experience (NATIVE) Act.
- Engage with diverse stakeholders and traditionally underserved populations to achieve a better understanding of how recreation contributes to their lives.
- Enhance and increase responsible recreation messaging.
- Develop and provide training and education, including workshops, webinars and public outreach.
- Advance responsible recreation values.
Eligibility Criteria
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Special district governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- County governments
For more information, visit Grants.gov.