Applications are now open for the Bureau of Land Management Colorado Wildlife Resource Management grant program to 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.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: Colorado
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 06/25/2022
Grant Size: $100,000
Grant Duration: 5 years
Details:
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 our nation’s most ecologically diverse and essential habitat.
The BLM Colorado 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.
The BLM Colorado 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.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $500,000
- Maximum Award: $100,000
- Minimum Award: $10,000
- Projects cannot be funded for more than a five-year period
Eligibility Criteria
- Private institutions of higher education
- Independent school districts
- City or township governments
- Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities
- Special district governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- 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
- Individuals and For-Profit Organizations are ineligible to apply for awards
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
