The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah is offering this grant to academic or non-profit research institutions to enhance the scientific basis for land management decisions on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM). This grant is for integrating historical land health data with contemporary data collected via the BLM’s Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy. The AIM strategy improves data collection and analysis for more robust decision-making. By ensuring historical data remains useful and integrating it with new findings, the project aims to strengthen monument management plans, promote scientific study within National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) units, and provide a critical scientific foundation for protecting and managing public lands. This initiative fulfills the recipient’s public service mission and helps the BLM meet its strategic conservation goals.
Opportunity ID: 238607
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | L13AS00152 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | BLM UT Intergration of historical and contemporary data to inform assessment, monitoring, and decision-making on the GSENM |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.231 — Fish, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Resource Management |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Jul 29, 2013 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 15, 2013 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Aug 15, 2013 |
| Archive Date: | Sep 30, 2013 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $250,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $24,675 |
| Award Floor: | $24,675 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Bureau of Land Management |
| Description: | This project is intended to provide an opportunity for an academic or non-profit research institution to provide guidance to BLM GSENM to improve the scientific basis for decision-making by integrating historical land health data with data to be collected through the BLM Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring AIM strategy. The AIM strategy is intended to increase the ability of monitoring and assessment data to support decision-making through improved probabilistic sampling design and standardized inventory, assessment and monitoring methodologies. Historical data provides baseline. It is critical that the baseline represented by these historical data, whether collected using a probabilistic or non-probabilistic sampling design, remain useful in evaluating land health. The proposed project will benefit the public by helping the potential recipient (likely an academic or non-profit research institution under the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit) fulfill their public service mission(s). It will further benefit the public by helping the agency meet strategic goals to protect and manage public lands, including: furthering the Monument Proclamation direction to protect the area for scientific study; strengthening Monument Management Plan decisions pertaining to land health; implementing NLCS Science Strategy Objective 1 to promote scientific study within NLCS units, NLCS 15-year Strategy Goal 1B to Expand understanding of the NLCS values through assessment, inventory, and monitoring (which is also a Utah BLM NLCS Strategy goal), and Strategy Goal 1C to Provide a scientific foundation for decision-making. |
| Link to Additional Information: | http://www.grants.gov |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Maria Gochis, Grants Management Officer, 801-539-4178
maria_gochis@blm.gov Email:maria_gochis@blm.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 238607 Full Announcement-1 -> l13as00152 intergration of data aim gsenm.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Maria Gochis, Grants Management Officer, 801-539-4178 maria_gochis@blm.gov Email: maria_gochis@blm.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.231 | PKG00181977 | Jul 29, 2013 | Aug 15, 2013 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
238607 SF424-2.0.pdf
238607 SF424A-1.0.pdf
238607 SF424B-1.1.pdf
Optional forms
238607 Budget-1.1.pdf
238607 Project-1.1.pdf
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