The BLM Alaska Wildlife Program advances the Department of the Interior’s priorities to address the climate crisis, restore balance on public lands and waters, advance environmental justice, and invest in a clean energy future.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: Alaska
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Wildlife Program fulfills the Department of the Interior’s vision for improving the management of wildlife and their habitats as well as upholding trust and related responsibilities. The Wildlife Program is responsible for:
- maintaining functioning wildlife habitats,
- developing and implementing habitat restoration projects,
- the inventory and monitoring of priority habitats and species by tracking trends and use on public lands.
Program Goals
- Supporting wildlife habitat restoration projects that address, that restore landscapes, habitat land health standards, and improve connectivity for wildlife migration for big game and migratory birds.
- Support projects with State and Tribal Wildlife agencies to provide information about the status and trends for wildlife on BLM lands by addressing data gaps and implementing coordinated regional monitoring
- Support projects that will assist BLM with using existing assessments or data to understand climate change impacts on landscape or priority ecosystems that are important to achieving short- and long-term habitat objectives. For example, this might include new information about water availability during extended droughts or new findings about impacts for invasive species.
Specific BLM Alaska Wildlife Program priorities include:
- protect wildlife habitat, migration, habitat connectivity that supports biodiversity;
- increase resilience to climate change and help leverage natural climate solutions;
- contribute to conserving at least 30 percent of the lands and waters by the year 2030;
- support State agencies to meet State wildlife population objectives;
- engage communities of color, low-income families, and rural and indigenous communities to enhance economic opportunities related to wildlife; and
- use the best science and data available to make decisions.
The BLM Alaska Wildlife Program works with partner organizations to meet the goals above on national or regional scale through:
- Activities 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.
- Assessing wildlife habitat and measuring related resource management goals and objectives.
- Enhancing the understanding of opportunities to conserve wildlife populations that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Improving how BLM uses and integrates coordinated wildlife monitoring data such as Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) and North American Bat Monitoring Program (NaBat).
- Doing new research on success in meeting the objectives of wildlife habitat and land use plans at the ecosystem and watershed level.
- Performing education projects (including citizen science and student-based science) to facilitate wildlife stewardship and conservation for species that depend on BLM managed lands.
- Increasing public awareness of wildlife resources, 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 Program Funding: $200,000
- Award Ceiling: $150,000
- Award Floor: $5,000
Grant Period
- Anticipated Project Start Date: 09/01/2025
- Anticipated Project End Date: 08/31/2030
Eligibility Criteria
- County governments
- Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
- Special district governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- State governments
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized)
- Private institutions of higher education
- City or township governments.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
