Deadline: 2-Mar-22
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced the Oregon/Washington Wildlife Resource Management Program to help ensure self-sustaining populations and a natural abundance and diversity of wildlife on public lands for the enjoyment and use of present and future generations.
The program is responsible for maintaining, restoring, and conserving species and their habitats in cooperation with State and local governments, Tribal governments, Federal and State agencies, private landowners, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). BLM-managed public lands are home to thousands of mammals, reptiles, avian, amphibian, and invertebrate species over some of the nation’s most ecologically diverse and essential habitat.
The BLM Oregon/Washingon Wildlife Program works with partners and cooperating agencies/governments to protect biodiversity; identify, conserve, and restore priority habitats (those that are locally at risk, important to local or regional communities, and/or contribute to national conservation for species or groups of species); and promote resiliency to climate change and environmental stressors, including drought, wildland fire, unusual weather events, and insects/disease.
Priorities
The BLM Oregon/Washingon Wildlife Program’s priority work includes:
- Inventorying and monitoring species populations and habitat, with consistent methodologies and appropriate data management.
- Identifying and assessing habitat and wildlife populations in need of conservation or enhancement.
- Maintaining, restoring, and/or enhancing priority wildlife habitat, in both upland and riparian areas, for priority wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands, and in doing so, supporting resiliency and connectivity in priority areas on the landscape, including seasonal habitats and migration corridors.
- Assessing the success of actions, projects, and treatments in areas targeted for habitat conservation and restoration.
- Increasing the percentage of Bureau Sensitive Species meeting or exceeding established objectives in Resource Management Plans or other conservation plans, including State Fish and Wildlife Agency Wildlife Action Plans.
- Collaborating with state wildlife agencies to attain or sustain wildlife population goals, particularly for wildlife that is hunted, and identifying and managing for migration corridors, stopover habitats, critical water sources, refugia, etc.
- Developing and sharing science-based strategies for wildlife conservation through professional workshops, meetings, and work groups.
- Developing decision support tools and information to enhance BLM’s wildlife habitat management to meet conservation goals under a changing climate (in collaboration with all land management entities that need to address a species conservation issue regardless of jurisdictional boundaries), including by increasing the efficiency of BLM’s analyses of the impacts of Federal land and water actions on wildlife habitat.
- Coordinating and implementing wildlife related environmental education to stimulate public understanding of the BLM role in maintaining and enhancing viable populations of wildlife and wildlife habitat.
The BLM Oregon/Washingon Wildlife Program has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with:
- Contributing to the Program focuses.
- Enhancing habitat for upland game, waterfowl, big game, pollinators, sensitives species, and watchable wildlife species.
- Restoring or improving wildlife habitat (vegetation communities, water resources, or connectivity) or reducing threats to habitat or species.
- Completing wildlife projects to further wildlife conservation.
- 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 to increase professional and public knowledge and understanding of these resources.
- Assessing wildlife habitat and verifying the achievement of resource management goals and objectives.
- Protecting, preserving, and restoring various wildlife populations residing on BLM managed lands.
- Enhancing the understanding of threats to wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Improving how BLM uses and integrates wildlife data and new research into its decisionmaking processes.
- Performing outreach/education projects to facilitate wildlife stewardship and conservation of species that depend on BLM managed lands, including through citizen science and student-based science.
- Increasing public knowledge of biodiversity, wildlife resources and wildlife conservation challenges and successes on BLM managed lands, including with a targeted focus on communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $2,500,000
- Maximum Award: $500,000
- Minimum Award: $3,000
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 20
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Applicants
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Independent school districts
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- 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 https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=336753