Bureau of Land Management Announces $300K for Alaska Invasive and Noxious Plant Management Program
Announcement Type: Notice of Funding Opportunity
Opportunity: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska Invasive and Noxious Plant Management Program
Overview and Eligible Uses: BLM Alaska Invasive and Noxious Plant Management Programs work to prevent, detect, inventory, control, and monitor weed populations on public lands.
BLM Alaska has an opportunity to work with partner organizations to collaboratively manage and coordinate treatments, inventories, monitoring, education and outreach, and prevention activities to control new infestations and treatment to remove existing infestations of noxious weeds and invasive species to gain efficiencies across multiple jurisdictions.
This funding opportunity has 3 goals:
Prevention, detection, and eradication of noxious weeds and invasive plant species
Development of outreach materials to engage the public in the detection of and to prevent the spread of noxious weeds and invasive plant species
Development of methods or modeling to increase the detection and mapping of noxious weeds and invasive plant species
Amount: BLM anticipates funding 4 awards between $5K and $50K
Award Type: Cooperative Agreement
Eligible Applicants: State governments, special district governments, private institutions of higher education, city or township governments, public and state controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments and organizations, county governments, independent school districts, public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, nonprofits
Key Dates: Applications must be submitted by January 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm ET.
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