BLM CA CESU Univesity of California Riverside UCR Natural Resources | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "BLM CA CESU University of California Riverside (UCR) Natural Resources" (Funding Opportunity Number L14AS00167) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening the scientific foundation behind how public lands in California are managed, restored, and prepared for future change. The central purpose is to support work that helps conserve native species and their habitats while improving the ability of public-land ecosystems to withstand and recover from pressures such as climate change and ongoing human disturbance. In practical terms, the opportunity is designed to fund applied research, monitoring, assessment, and related scientific support that can guide BLM decisions and on-the-ground actions to keep landscapes functioning well and continuing to provide benefits people rely on, such as healthy watersheds, biodiversity, and other ecosystem services.

The program is rooted in the idea of resilience: restoring and adapting landscapes so they remain robust while maintaining core ecosystem processes. The announcement emphasizes that California is experiencing unprecedented environmental change alongside increasing impacts from human activity, creating higher stakes for effective land management. Because of that, the BLM signals a strong need for specialized expertise across a wide range of natural resource disciplines. It specifically highlights the value of evolutionary biology, ecology, genetics, plant and soil science, hydrology, and climatology, among other fields. The overall message is that BLM wants to draw on university-based scientific capacity to generate defensible, management-relevant information that can inform how public lands are conserved and stewarded into the future, especially with regard to protecting Californias biological diversity.

From an administrative and funding standpoint, this is a discretionary opportunity under the Natural Resources funding activity category, with funding provided through a cooperative agreement, meaning BLM expects to be actively involved in the work rather than simply issuing a hands-off grant. The total estimated funding is $500,000, with an award ceiling of $500,000 and an award floor of $500, and the opportunity anticipates making one award. There is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed, which generally lowers the barrier for eligible institutions to participate. The CFDA listing associated with this opportunity is 15.231, Fish, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Resource Management, which aligns with the conservation and restoration emphasis of the announcement.

Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, and the title indicates a CESU connection in California with the University of California Riverside, suggesting it is intended to be executed through that academic partnership framework. The opportunity was originally posted and created on June 23, 2014. The original and current closing date listed is July 23, 2018, and the opportunity was archived on December 30, 2018, indicating it is no longer open for new applications, but still useful as a reference for the type of work BLM funds and the scope of scientific support it seeks.

For additional details, the announcement points applicants to Grants.gov and provides a contact for access issues: Leona B. Parker, Grants Management Officer, at 530-252-5338 or lparker@blm.gov.

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