The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a grant to assess wetland/riparian areas spanning 12 western states, including Alaska. The grant aims to determine the condition and trend of these ecosystems to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem services. Objectives include enhancing understanding of wetland resources and enabling investigations across the U.S. The public benefit includes providing valuable data for wildlife habitat, climate change tracking, and water resource studies. This grant opportunity closes on Sep 02, 2016, and seeks a partner to develop a consistent inventory of wetland/riparian areas to support sustainable management and conservation efforts.
Opportunity ID: 286865
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | L16AS00135 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | L16AS00135 BLM-NOC West-wide Wetland and Riparian Mapping Assessment |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 3 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.237 — Rangeland Resource Management |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Aug 02, 2016 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 02, 2016 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 02, 2016 |
| Archive Date: | Dec 31, 2021 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $300,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $300,000 |
| Award Floor: | $1 |
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: | Background: Wetland/riparian areas retain water long into the growing season, in contrast to adjacent drier uplands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees more than 17,600 square kilometers of wetlands/riparian areas and 11,500 square kilometers of lakes and reservoirs located primarily throughout 12 western states, including Alaska (Public Land Statistics, 2013). These wetland/riparian systems are among the most important, productive and diverse ecosystems in the Western U.S. Wetland/riparian systems support numerous aquatic, semi-aquatic and terrestrial species and provide ecosystem services such as habitat, flood attenuation, and nutrient cycling. The BLMâ¿¿s multiple-use mandate directs the management of watersheds for activities that potentially impact wetland/riparian resources, such as livestock grazing, timber harvest, mining, energy development, and recreation. Consequently, knowing the condition and trend of wetland/riparian systems is critical to achieving the BLM mission, which is to â¿¿sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.â¿ The BLMâ¿¿s fundamentals of rangeland health provide a common set of interdisciplinary questions that the BLM seeks to answer from the scale of individual grazing allotments to national-level reporting to ensure the sustainable management of functioning wetland/riparian ecosystems. The four fundamentals are: â¿¢ Watersheds are in, or are making significant progress toward, properly functioning physical condition, including their upland, riparian-wetland, and aquatic components; soil and plant conditions support infiltration, soil moisture storage, and the release of water that are in balance with climate and landform and maintain or improve water quality, water quantity, and timing and duration of flow â¿¢ Water quality complies with state water quality standards and achieves, or is making significant progress toward achieving, established BLM management objectives, such as meeting wildlife needs â¿¢ Habitats are, or are making significant progress toward being, restored or maintained for federal threatened and endangered species, federal proposed or candidate threatened and endangered species, and other special status species â¿¢ Ecological processes, including the hydrologic cycle, nutrient cycle, and energy flow, are maintained, or there is significant progress toward their attainment, in order to support healthy biotic populations and communities. BLM is interested in working with a partner to ascertain the achievement of land health in these areas. A consistent inventory of these areas will be the basis of these efforts. Additional work will focus on determining the condition and trend of these resources. Objectives: To facilitate new opportunities to understand the extent and status of wetland/riparian resources across western landscapes. Enable a partner to investigate wetland status, condition, and trend across much of the continental U.S. Public Benefit: As stated above, wetland/riparian areas are important, productive, diverse components of western ecosystems and are often a limiting factor for wildlife species in arid landscapes. There is currently no consistent, west-wide inventory of these resources. Such an inventory would be beneficial for any entitiy studying western landscapes and ecosystems. Wetland/riparian areas are also important for tracking climate change and are critical components of many speciesâ¿¿ life histories. Information from this effort may be utilized by other public agencies, universities, or other entities studying water resources in the West. It may form a baseline inventory for documenting changes due to climate change. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Click on related documents tab |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Grants Specialist Tina Hamalak (303) 236-4676
thamalak@blm.gov Email:thamalak@blm.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 286865 Other Supporting Documents-L16AS00135 BLM-NOC West-wide W -> L16AS00135 FOA.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Grants Specialist Tina Hamalak (303) 236-4676 thamalak@blm.gov Email: thamalak@blm.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.237 | PKG00226315 | Sep 02, 2016 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
286865 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
286865 SF424B-1.1.pdf
286865 SF424A-1.0.pdf
286865 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
286865 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
286865 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
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