The Plant Conservation and Restoration Management Program is designed to increase the national native seed supply chain by working with private industry, federal, state, tribal and other partners.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/23/2025
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Program (PCRP) advances the Department of the Interior’s priorities to protect human health and safety, unleashing American energy, and delivering price relief for American families by increasing the quantity of native seed that is available to stabilize soils and protect human health and safety following wildfire, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, meet permitting requirements for energy development, and improving market availability of native seed through partnerships with farmers and small producers. BLM uses the native seed supply to maintain and restore multiple use and sustained yield on public lands including livestock grazing, timber production, wildlife habitat, recreational use, and orphaned well and abandoned mine land reclamation. Improving native seed availability and stability in the market will lead to lower seed costs, lower risk incurred by producers, and more American jobs related to the native seed production pipeline. Improving the native seed pipeline will also result in increasing project success, with reclamation projects meeting standards with long-term vegetative establishment and reduced noxious weed occurrence and grazing lands meeting land health standards, ultimately improving the health and benefits public lands provide for multiple use and sustainable yield.
The BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Program is especially focused on projects that:
- Work with partners to make local seed collections that will be used to increase the diversity of native species available on the native seed market while at the same time fostering employment opportunities.
- Support local farmers and non-profit organizations who wish to enter the native seed market and establish native seed production fields that will help support rural economies and foster shared environmental stewardship.
- Support local nursery production of species that cannot be directly seeded to help support post natural disaster recovery and create jobs that will help support rural economies.
- Generate the applied science needed to lower seed production costs, lower farmer risk, improve post fire stabilization project success and support sound agency decisions about the native seed supply chain.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Program Funding: $14,000,000
- Award Ceiling: $3,000,000
- Award Floor: $10,000.
Grant Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/01/2025
- Anticipated Project End Date: 08/30/2030.
Eligibility Criteria
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- State governments
- Private institutions of higher education
- County governments
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
