BLM-MT Bird Inventory and Monitoring: Large Scale Riparian Monitoring and Responses to Land Management Actions | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The grant opportunity titled "BLM-MT Bird Inventory and Monitoring: Large Scale Riparian Monitoring and Responses to Land Management Actions" (Funding Opportunity Number L16AS00096) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Montana funding call issued by the U.S. Department of the Interior. It was posted on May 26, 2016, with an application deadline of July 26, 2016. The award is structured as a cooperative agreement, meaning the BLM expects to have substantial involvement with the recipient in carrying out the work rather than simply issuing a standalone grant. The program sits in the Natural Resources funding activity area under CFDA 15.231. Eligibility is described as unrestricted, so a wide range of entities could apply (such as universities, nonprofits, tribes, state or local governments, or other organizations), subject to any additional eligibility language that may have been included in the full announcement.

The project is grounded in the ecological importance of the Missouri River system in Montana, described as the state’s largest and longest river and riparian corridor. Because the river is regulated (for example, by dams and managed flows), the BLM emphasizes the need for ongoing inventory and monitoring to understand how flow regulation affects riparian habitats and the organisms that depend on them, particularly birds. The opportunity also highlights that land management actions along the river corridor and connected riparian areas need a monitoring component so agencies can measure whether those actions are helping, harming, or shifting habitat conditions and bird populations over time.

The scope of management actions contemplated is broad and reflects common riparian and watershed management tools. Examples specifically mentioned include removal of Russian olive (an invasive woody species that can transform riparian plant communities), prescribed fire, thinning treatments, construction or maintenance of riparian exclosures to limit impacts from grazing or other disturbances, and research on recreation impacts. The announcement also leaves room for “any other actions that may alter habitat,” which signals that the monitoring framework is meant to be flexible enough to evaluate multiple types of on-the-ground changes, whether they are restoration-oriented, mitigation-driven, or part of general land use management.

The central objective is to build and maintain an understanding of how both river regulation and management interventions influence riparian habitat conditions, bird distribution, and population dynamics through time. In practice, this implies repeated, systematic monitoring at a scale large enough to detect trends and patterns, rather than one-time surveys. The emphasis on distribution and population dynamics suggests a focus not just on which species are present, but on how abundance, occupancy, and community composition may be changing, potentially in relation to habitat structure, vegetation changes, and hydrologic conditions.

A key public benefit described in the opportunity is the creation or support of a “large publicly available inference scale” dataset for migratory birds and associated riparian habitats across all ownerships along the entire Madison-Missouri River system. In other words, the work is intended to produce information that is useful beyond a single site or land parcel, spanning a large connected river corridor and integrating conditions across a patchwork of ownerships. The idea is that a robust, landscape-scale monitoring backbone can then be used to interpret and “zoom in” on local management questions, such as what happens to migratory bird use and habitat quality after Russian olive removal or other restoration and management actions.

In funding terms, the award ceiling is $25,000, with one expected award. That budget level suggests a targeted effort, such as implementing a defined season of monitoring, supporting a portion of an ongoing monitoring program, funding analysis and reporting tied to existing field efforts, or filling a specific gap needed to maintain a long-term dataset. Overall, the opportunity is aimed at improving scientifically credible, decision-relevant monitoring of riparian bird communities and habitats so that BLM and partners can evaluate the real-world outcomes of river operations and land management actions across one of Montana’s most significant riparian systems.

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