The National Conservation Lands programs financially support studies aimed at increasing the understanding of the resources present on BLM lands, the values these areas protect, and the effectiveness of BLM”s resource management decisions.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/08/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The BLM manages these special areas to maintain and enhance their conservation values with the goal to conserve, protect, and restore these important landscapes and their outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values. These areas range from broad Alaskan tundra to red rock deserts and from deep river canyons to rugged ocean coastlines and include some of America’s finest natural and cultural treasures.
Program Goals
- Management-Driven Research: On the ground research that provides information that can directly inform a pertinent and pressing management question at units of BLMs National Conservation Lands.
- Community/Citizen Science: Science that engages citizens (volunteers) as assistants in data collection, compilation, or analysis to improve BLM’s management and, advance evidence-informed decision-making, while benefiting society.
- Tribal Co-Stewardship: studies which explore opportunities for, evaluate, or seek to reinvigorate co-stewardship activities with Tribal entities, including but not limited to application of Indigenous Knowledge.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $228,000
- Award Ceiling: $45,000
- Award Floor: $5,000.
Grant Period.
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/25/2025
- Anticipated Project End Date: 08/24/2030.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- County governments
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- State governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Private institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
