The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking applications for its Headquarters (HQ) Rangeland Resource Management Program.
Donor Name: Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/11/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: 5 Years
Details:
The Bureau of Land Management Headquarters (HQ) Rangeland Management Program administers grazing for more than 155 million acres of public land.
The Rangeland Management HQ program conducts inventories, assessments and evaluations of soil and vegetation conditions and land health. Monitoring data is collected and analyzed to ensure progress toward meeting land health standards.
Funded projects under this program will focus on high priority work effecting the program nationally by crossing state boundaries, such as, activities that support maintaining or achieving land health and productivity, increasing carbon sequestration, and creating resilient landscapes to benefit current and future generations. These activities could include, but are not limited to, such things as:
- Facilitating the conservation and restoration of rangelands to combat climate change.
- Soils mapping and development of ecological site descriptions.
- Engagement of community members and other stakeholders, through mentoring, training, and educational programs.
Funding Opportunity Goals
- Conserving and restoring lands to combat climate chang
- promote climate resilient landscapes by focusing on maintaining/improving land health through appropriate livestock grazing use, management of invasive species and noxious weeds, and managing soil resources.
- Restoring legacy disturbances
- Support restoration of landscapes improving rangelands through grazing management on the ground projects including vegetation restoration treatments, and grazing management structures, and soil resource management.
- Decision support for adaptive management
- To better support land management decisions regarding grazing and other range management treatments, soil management, and invasive species, the BLM will place a priority on collecting data through the use of consistent, comparable, and common indicators, consistent methods, and an unbiased sampling framework which will allow for analyses that are repeatable and comparable across a region, and decisions based on science and data that are legally defensible.
Funding Information
- Estimated Total Funding: $5,000,00
- Maximum Award: $2,000,000
- Minimum Award: $20,000
Project Period
Agreement terms for funded projects are estimated to range between one and no more than five years and are determined based on the period of performance as stated on the recipient’s project proposal.
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)
- 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.