BLM WY Cooperative Fire and Fuels Reduction |
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Federal Grant Title: BLM WY Cooperative Fire and Fuels Reduction CFDA Number: 15.228 CFDA Description: National Fire Plan - Wildland Urban Interface Community Fire Assistance Federal Agency Name: Bureau of Land Management Category of Funding Activity: Disaster Prevention and Relief Category Explanation: Information not provided Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Opportunity Number: L10AS00073 Document Type: Grants Notice Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement Posted Date: May 12, 2010 Creation Date: May 12, 2010 Original Closing Date for Applications: May 30, 2010 Current Closing Date for Applications: May 30, 2010 Archive Date: Jul 30, 2010 Expected Number of Awards: 1 Estimated Total Program Funding: $100,000 Federal Grant Award Ceiling: $20,000 Federal Grant Award Floor: $20,000 Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: No
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - County governments - City or township governments
- Additional Information on Eligibility
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- Grant Description
- A. Project Background Information: The Lander BLM Field Office and Wyoming Game and Fish Department have been actively working together to reduce hazardous fuels and improve wildlife habitat for years. The project area contains important habitat for mule deer, antelope and sage grouse which is a BLM sensitive species. Based on past successes both agencies would like to continue the project. B. Project Objective: The objective of the project is to maintain and enhance sagebrush habitat and reduce the threat of large stand replacing wildland fires. Sage grouse are dependent on healthy sagebrush stands to survive. Sagebrush provides winter forage, hiding and thermal cover for both antelope and mule deer. Throughout the project area juniper is encroaching into sagebrush stands. Eventually juniper could out-compete sagebrush for water and nutrients and the area would no longer provide habitat for sagebrush dependent wildlife species. Juniper also increases the overall fuel load in sagebrush stands, making wildfires more difficult to control. Areas occupied by juniper also tend to experience hotter and more severe fires which cause the reestablishment of vegetation to take longer following wildfire. These areas are also more susceptible to cheatgrass invasion. Many sagebrush stands in the project area is large and continuous. If a large hot season wildfire occurred thousands of acres of sagebrush habitat would be lost for about 30 to 100 years depending on the rate of sagebrush reestablishment. To address these issues the BLM and Wyoming Game and Fish department will mechanically remove juniper encroachment and use a mower create a mosaic of different age and size class sagebrush stands. Removing juniper and creating patches by mowing will al
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
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http://www.grants.gov
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Ilze J Karklins-Powers, Grants Management Officer, 307-775-6293ipowers@blm.gov
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