Opportunity Information: Apply for L17AS00158
The BLM CA Southern California Botanical Projects grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L17AS00158) is a Bureau of Land Management program under the U.S. Department of the Interior focused on conserving native plant diversity on California public lands, especially in Southern California. The notice frames the need as urgent: California supports a wide range of natural communities and an exceptionally large number of native plant and animal species, yet many plant taxa are now rare, threatened, or otherwise uncommon. It highlights that roughly 2,096 plant species in California fall into that at-risk category, that 32 plant species have already gone extinct in the state, and that only about 25 percent of the original vegetation remains in something close to pristine condition. Against that backdrop, the BLM is emphasizing its broader resource protection mission and strategic plan goal of helping field managers create and maintain habitat conditions where biological communities can persist and recover.
In practical terms, the opportunity supports the BLM Plant Conservation Program work in Southern California, with activities that typically include plant inventories, seed collection and banking, propagation, monitoring of sensitive and rare plants, and genetic analysis to guide conservation decisions. A central feature of this particular project is collaboration with a Southern California botanic garden that is affiliated with the Center for Plant Conservation. Through that partnership model, the project aims to build long-term capacity for plant conservation by combining land management authority and on-the-ground access (BLM) with specialized horticultural, seed banking, research, and conservation expertise (the botanic garden and its networks).
A major deliverable described in the announcement is the establishment of a Seeds of Success program in Southern California. Seeds of Success is generally oriented around collecting, documenting, and conserving native seed material to support restoration, safeguard genetic diversity, and improve the ability to respond to threats such as habitat loss, drought, wildfire, invasive species, and other pressures. Alongside seed work, the grant emphasizes direct conservation actions such as monitoring rare plant species over time, inventorying and mapping populations to understand distribution and trends, and developing additional plant-focused research opportunities that can inform management, restoration, and recovery strategies on BLM-managed lands.
From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity using a cooperative agreement, which typically means the BLM expects substantial involvement with the recipient during the project (for example, coordinating field priorities, methods, target species, data standards, and deliverables). The funding activity category is Natural Resources and the CFDA number listed is 15.231. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to various applicant types, with the usual caveat that applicants must follow any additional eligibility details referenced in the full notice. The posting date is June 12, 2017, with an original application deadline of August 11, 2017. The award ceiling is listed as up to $1,000,000, and the opportunity anticipated one award, suggesting a single, relatively large cooperative project intended to support a coordinated regional plant conservation effort rather than multiple smaller grants.Apply for L17AS00158
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM CA Southern California Botanical Projects" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.231.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 12, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 11, 2017. (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 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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