The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting applications for its Arizona Wildlife Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: Arizona
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/28/2024
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The BLM Arizona State Office (AZ) Wildlife Program has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to assist with national or regional efforts across state boundaries for the following:
- Contributing to the above-Program focuses.
- Focusing on implementing activities that meet the goals and objective of BLM Strategic Plans for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation and Pollinator Conservation, BLM Resource Management Plans, and Conservations plans 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 to increase professional and public knowledge and understanding of these resources.
- Assessing wildlife habitat and verifying the achievement of resource management goals and objectives.
- Enhancing the understanding of management opportunities to conserve wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Improving how BLM uses and integrates coordinated wildlife monitoring data such as IMBCR and NaBat, and new research to inform achievement of land health fundamental standards related to wildlife habitat and land use plan objective at the ecosystem and watershed level.
- 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 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.
Funding Opportunity Goals
- Identifying and supporting projects that address wildlife habitat restoration that are in alignment with restoration landscapes, and address habitat land health standards, and improving connectivity supporting wildlife migration such as big game, and migratory birds.
- Projects that support collaborations with State and Tribal Wildlife agencies to address data gaps, implement coordinated landscape or regional monitoring to inform populations status and trend tied to public lands administered by BLM.
- Support projects that will assist BLM with using existing assessments or data to understand climate change impacts on landscape or priority ecosystems important to achieving short- and long-term habitat objectives, for example water availability during extended droughts, or new or emerging impacts for invasive species.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $500,000
- Award Ceiling: $250,000
- Award Floor: $10,000
Grant Period
Projects cannot be funded for more than a five-year period.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
