Partners for Fish and Wildlife-Burn Area Rehabilitation

The summary for the Partners for Fish and Wildlife-Burn Area Rehabilitation grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the Fish and Wildlife Service, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Partners for Fish and Wildlife-Burn Area Rehabilitation: Through the Branch of Fire Management, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) provides Burn Area Rehabilitation (BAR) funds to National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) for non-emergency activities and treatments that are compatible with approved unit management plans and can be accomplished within 3 years of wildfire containment. The Wyden Amendment (16 U.S.C. 1011(a) as amended) (www.blm.gov/nhp/efoia/wo/fy00/im2000-179c.pdf) provides the authority by which the Service may consider funding work on private land that will have a benefit to NWRs. It is a law that provides the Service the authority to enter into watershed restoration and enhancement agreements (i.e., cooperative agreements) with private landowners such as Tribal, State, local governments, and private or nonprofit entities for the protection, restoration, and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resources on public or private land and the reduction of risk from natural disaster where public safety is threatened that benefit these resources on NWRs within the watershed. This is notice of a request for proposals on Burn Area Rehabilitation (BAR) activities on private lands adjoining Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Socorro County, New Mexico, Federal fiscal year 2007 (FY07). A cooperating manager is needed for project activities and a Private Lands Agreement that is being entered into between a private land owner and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program http://ecos.fws.gov/partners. The project activities are listed in the Proposal Content Requirements of the full announcement and a more detailed description can be found in the Marcial Fire Burned Area Rehabilitation Plan on the Bosque del Apache web site http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/newmex/bosque/index.html.