BLM OR-WA Drought and Sagebrush: Management Implications | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The BLM OR-WA Drought and Sagebrush: Management Implications opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L16AS00178) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) research-focused cooperative agreement intended to improve understanding of how sagebrush steppe plant communities respond to prolonged, intensified drought conditions expected under climate change. The project is centered in the Klamath Falls Resource Area in Oregon and Washington BLM lands, targeting native sagebrush steppe vegetation, which is widely distributed across the western United States and serves as critical habitat for the threatened Greater Sage-Grouse. The core problem this grant addresses is that, even though climate models consistently project longer and more severe droughts in the West, there remains limited on-the-ground experimental evidence in sagebrush steppe systems about how vegetation structure, species composition, and forage production will change under sustained water stress.

The purpose of the project is to implement a controlled drought manipulation experiment and monitor ecosystem responses over a four-year period. Work under the award is expected to generate data on forage production and plant community composition, allowing managers and scientists to quantify how intense, long-term drought influences plant growth, relative abundance of species, and overall community dynamics in sagebrush steppe. In practical terms, the results are meant to help land managers anticipate whether drought will reduce forage availability, shift communities toward more drought-tolerant or invasive species, alter habitat quality, or change the resilience and recovery potential of sagebrush landscapes after stress events. Because sagebrush steppe conditions directly affect Sage-Grouse habitat suitability, these findings can also inform conservation planning and habitat management decisions tied to this species.

A key feature of the opportunity is that the drought experiment is designed to align with the International Drought Experiment (IDE) network, a coordinated set of drought experiments conducted across multiple sites using shared protocols and methods. By using the IDE framework, the Klamath Falls study can be compared directly to other concurrent drought experiments in different ecosystems or regions, strengthening the value of the dataset beyond a single location. This network approach improves the ability to detect general patterns, test whether sagebrush steppe responses are consistent or unique relative to other systems, and support broader scientific conclusions about drought impacts under climate change.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (Agency: DOI-BLM), categorized under Natural Resources (CFDA 15.236). The funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by the agency in shaping, coordinating, or supporting the work during the project period rather than simply providing a standard grant. Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is open to a wide range of applicant types, subject to any additional eligibility language that may have appeared in the full announcement. The opportunity anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $21,000. The notice was posted June 9, 2016, created June 9, 2016, and had an application closing date of August 9, 2016.

Overall, the opportunity is aimed at producing management-relevant, experimentally grounded evidence on drought effects in an under-studied but high-priority ecosystem. By combining local field experimentation in the Klamath Falls Resource Area with standardized methods from a larger international network, the project is structured to deliver both site-specific insights for BLM management and comparable data that contributes to broader climate and drought ecology research.

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