Deadline: 17-Feb-2025
The Bureau of Land Management has launched the Wildlife Program to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, advance environmental justice, and invest in a clean energy future.
Specific BLM Wyoming Wildlife Program priorities include:
- protect wildlife habitat, migration, habitat connectivity that supports biodiversity;
- 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;
- support State agencies to meet State wildlife population objectives;
- engage communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to wildlife; and
- use the best science and data available to make decisions.
Program Goals
- Supporting wildlife habitat restoration projects that address, that restore landscapes, habitat land health standards, and improve connectivity for wildlife migration for big game and migratory birds.
- Support projects with State and Tribal Wildlife agencies to provide information about the status and trends for wildlife on BLM lands by addressing data gaps and implementing coordinated regional monitoring
- Support projects that will assist BLM with using existing assessments or data to understand climate change impacts on landscape or priority ecosystems that are important to achieving short- and long-term habitat objectives. For example, this might include new information about water availability during extended droughts or new findings about impacts for invasive species.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $1,200,000
- Award Ceiling: $350,000
- Award Floor: $10,000
Eligible Activities
- The BLM Wyoming Wildlife Program works with partner organizations to meet the goals above on national or regional scale through:
- Activities that maintain or restore habitats for upland game, waterfowl, big game, pollinators, sensitives species, and watchable wildlife species.
- Conserving priority wildlife habitat (vegetation communities, water resources, or connectivity) or reducing threats to habitat or species.
- Monitoring and inventorying wildlife populations and habitats to provide complete, current, and accurate information on the distribution, abundance, and habitat of wildlife that depend on BLM managed public lands.
- Assessing wildlife habitat and measuring related resource management goals and objectives.
- Enhancing the understanding of opportunities to conserve wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Improving how BLM uses and integrates coordinated wildlife monitoring data such as Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) and North American Bat Monitoring Program (NaBat).
- Doing new research on success in meeting the objectives of wildlife habitat and land use plans at the ecosystem and watershed level.
- Performing education projects (including citizen science and student-based science) to facilitate wildlife stewardship and conservation for species that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Increasing public awareness of wildlife resources, conservation challenges and successes on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, lowincome families, and rural and indigenous communities.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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
- Individuals and For-Profit Organizations are ineligible to apply for awards under this NOFO.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.