The Bureau of Land Management – Wyoming (BLM-WY) is offering this grant through its Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Program to promote cooperative partnerships and enhance the critical management of public lands resources. This funding opportunity supports public outreach, resource investigation, and protection efforts, providing essential on-the-ground knowledge for natural resource programs. The grant specifically addresses critical data shortages concerning recreational/wilderness inventories, visitor use, and GIS support. With technical assistance from partner organizations, project activities will include extensive on-the-ground monitoring and investigations across over 189,000 acres of recreation resources, 577,504 acres of Wilderness Study Areas, and an estimated 7 million acres for wilderness characteristic inventory. This initiative will provide the BLM with crucial data to better serve public needs and ensure effective stewardship.
Opportunity ID: 294142
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | L17AS00129 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | BLM-WY Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Program |
| 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: | 15.225 — Recreation Resource Management |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | May 26, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 27, 2017 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Jul 27, 2017 |
| Archive Date: | Aug 13, 2017 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $450,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $128,000 |
| Award Floor: | $1 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) Public and State controlled institutions of higher education Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education City or township governments State governments County governments |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Bureau of Land Management |
| Description: | This program promotes cooperative partnerships and provides public outreach, public awareness, resource investigation and protection, on the ground knowledge of the development and implementation of natural resource programs and services. This funding opportunity will provided much needed critical management of public lands resource. With the technical support of a partnership organization, project level activities such as on the ground monitoring/ investigations for over 189,000 acres of recreation resource, 577,504 acres of Wilderness Study Areas and an estimated 7 million acres of wilderness characteristic inventory will provide BLM with needed data to better service to the public need. The BLM needs to meet our ongoing inventorying for recreational/ wilderness data shortage, visitor use data, GIS support and public outreach. |
| Link to Additional Information: | Click on the |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Cooperative Agreements Edward Beckham (307) 775-6313
ebeckham@blm.gov Email:ebeckham@blm.gov |
Version History
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Related Documents
Folder 294142 Full Announcement-Funding Opportunity Package -> L17AS00129 – Announcement and Instructions – (BLM-WY Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Program).pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Cooperative Agreements Edward Beckham (307) 775-6313 ebeckham@blm.gov Email: ebeckham@blm.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.225 | PKG00232857 | Jul 27, 2017 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
294142 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
294142 SF424B-1.1.pdf
294142 SF424A-1.0.pdf
294142 GG_LobbyingForm-1.1.pdf
294142 BudgetNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
294142 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
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