Arizona Rangeland Resource Management | L19AS00089

Opportunity Information: Apply for L19AS00089

The Arizona Rangeland Resource Management opportunity is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement funding announcement focused on improving the health and long-term sustainability of rangelands and associated soil resources in Arizona. Through the BLM Rangeland Management Program, the agency manages grazing and broader rangeland conditions across a large public-land footprint (within a national program that administers grazing on more than 155 million acres). This grant opportunity supports projects that help maintain or restore ecological function on rangelands while also supporting the many authorized uses of public lands that depend on stable soils and resilient vegetation.

The work emphasized under this opportunity centers on practical, on-the-ground rangeland management and restoration actions. Priority activities include inventorying rangeland conditions; controlling and managing noxious weeds and invasive species; improving rangelands through grazing management; implementing vegetation restoration treatments; building or maintaining grazing management structures; and conducting soil resource management efforts aimed at improving soil stability and reducing erosion. The scope also includes collaborative efforts such as completing priority soil surveys and developing or updating ecological site descriptions, which are foundational planning tools used to set realistic management objectives based on soil and site potential.

A key theme of the program is coordination. Applicants are expected to work with land managers and relevant stakeholders to plan and carry out projects that address local priorities and produce measurable improvements in rangeland and soil conditions. By strengthening rangeland resilience and soil stability, funded efforts also help enable or support a wide range of BLM actions and authorizations on public lands, including energy development, recovery of endangered and other special status species, domestic livestock grazing, recreation management, forest management, hazardous fuels reduction, and post-fire rehabilitation. In other words, the rangeland and soil work funded here is framed as essential infrastructure for multiple-use land management.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity from the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, offered under a cooperative agreement mechanism, which typically means BLM may have substantial involvement in project execution compared to a standard grant. The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.237 and falls under the Natural Resources activity category. The funding opportunity number is L19AS00089, originally posted July 10, 2019, with an original closing date of September 9, 2019. The maximum award amount listed is up to $1,000,000, with an anticipated total of three awards.

Eligibility is broad and includes many public, nonprofit, academic, tribal, and private-sector entities. Eligible applicants include state, county, and city/township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities; nonprofit organizations with or without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education, which are separately listed); individuals; and small businesses. This wide eligibility suggests BLM is seeking a diverse pool of partners capable of delivering field projects, technical assessments (like soil surveys and ecological site descriptions), and coordinated rangeland improvement efforts aligned with BLM’s management priorities in Arizona.

• The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Arizona Rangeland Resource Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.237.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 10, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Sep 09, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $1,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education, Individuals, Small businesses.

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