BLM OR WA CESU Western Lily Augmentation and Demography, Coos Bay District, Oregon | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "BLM OR WA CESU Western Lily Augmentation and Demography, Coos Bay District, Oregon" is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement focused on conserving and expanding populations of the western lily in Oregon, with work centered in the Coos Bay District. The project is framed as applied conservation research: it combines habitat restoration, propagation and augmentation of plants, and careful monitoring to understand what conditions best support western lily persistence and expansion.

The core purpose of the project is twofold. First, it aims to restore and improve habitat where western lily is already present (occupied habitat). Second, it seeks to identify and treat additional nearby areas that appear suitable for the species but are not currently occupied or may be marginal. To decide what counts as "suitable" habitat, the project will rely on site selection criteria tied to measurable physical characteristics, especially soil properties and other habitat features that resemble known western lily locations. This makes the effort more than a simple planting project; it is designed to test habitat suitability in a structured way.

A major technical component is hydrology monitoring, specifically measuring depth to the water table. The project will use data-logging piezometers, which are monitoring devices installed in the ground that can record groundwater levels over time. These instruments will be installed in multiple settings: within known western lily habitat and also in suspected suitable habitat at several adjacent locations. The intent is to collect continuous, site-specific water table data to better understand how groundwater conditions correlate with western lily occurrence, performance, and survival. In coastal and wetland-influenced systems, small differences in hydrology can strongly affect plant establishment, so the water table measurements are positioned as a key dataset for interpreting results and guiding future habitat management.

In parallel with habitat work and hydrology monitoring, the recipient will carry out seed collection and propagation. Seeds will be collected from the New River site as well as other appropriate western lily sites in Oregon, and the recipient will grow up to 1,000 plants from that seed. This propagation step is meant to produce enough plant material to support augmentation efforts (increasing numbers in existing populations) and outplanting into newly identified suitable areas. Collecting from more than one site also suggests an interest in using regionally appropriate sources, potentially supporting resilience and reducing risk that a single source limits genetic or ecological suitability, although the announcement itself emphasizes the collection locations rather than explicitly stating genetic objectives.

The on-the-ground actions and research components will be organized as a formal scientific experiment. That means vegetation management (such as treating competing vegetation or adjusting site conditions), seed collection, artificial propagation, selection of planting sites, outplanting of propagated plants, and subsequent monitoring will be done with an experimental design rather than as ad hoc restoration. In practice, this implies the project is intended to generate defensible results about which treatments and habitat characteristics support establishment and demographic performance, not just to produce planted individuals. The reference to "demography" indicates that monitoring is expected to track population-level measures over time, such as survival, growth, reproduction, or changes in abundance, rather than simply recording whether plants were planted.

Administratively, the opportunity is a discretionary grant offered as a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates a more collaborative relationship between the agency and the recipient during project implementation than a standard grant. It falls under the Natural Resources funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 15.231 (Fish, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Resource Management). The program anticipates a single award, with an estimated total funding amount of $10,000. The award ceiling is $10,000 and the award floor is $1, and there is no cost sharing or matching requirement listed. Eligibility is limited to public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, reflecting the research-oriented, experimental nature of the project and its connection to the CESU framework.

Key dates included a posted and created date of April 15, 2011, an application closing date of May 6, 2011, and an archive date of April 15, 2012. The announcement directs applicants to the application package via the "APPLICATION" tab in the original posting interface. For assistance accessing the full announcement, the listed contact is Teresa Spickerman, Grants Management Officer, at 503-808-6243 or teresaespickerman@blm.gov.

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