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Opportunity Summary:

The New Mexico Forest and Woodland Inventory and Monitoring (CESU) grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L11AS00097) is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) discretionary funding program offered through a cooperative agreement to support detailed, on-the-ground and mapped assessments of forest, woodland, and other vegetative communities in New Mexico. The core purpose is to generate high-quality inventory and mapping products and to track, measure, and evaluate the effectiveness of watershed restoration treatments over time. In practice, the work is designed to strengthen land management decisions by improving understanding of vegetation conditions, trends, and treatment outcomes across targeted landscapes, while also building practical education and training opportunities tied directly to the field and analytical work.

The scope of work centers on conducting both extensive and intensive forest inventories. That typically means collecting field data at a scale broad enough to characterize large areas (extensive inventory) while also performing more detailed, higher-resolution sampling in priority sites (intensive inventory). Alongside the field inventories, the program emphasizes inventory and mapping of forest, woodland, and vegetative communities, which can involve classification of vegetation types, spatial delineation of community boundaries, and development of map products that support resource management, planning, and restoration prioritization. Another major component is monitoring watershed restoration treatments, meaning the awardee would help document treatment implementation and assess ecological responses, using monitoring data to determine whether restoration actions are meeting objectives such as improved watershed function, reduced erosion risk, or changes in vegetation structure and composition.

A key feature of the opportunity is its educational value. The announcement notes that the work includes data collection, analysis, and evaluation, which creates built-in opportunities for training students and early-career professionals in field methods, sampling design, vegetation and forest measurements, data management, and interpretation of results. Because the program is issued under the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Network (CESU), it aligns with CESU goals of linking federal land management needs with university-based research capacity, applied science, and workforce development. The cooperative agreement structure also signals that BLM expects substantial involvement and collaboration during the project, rather than a hands-off grant relationship.

Funding for the opportunity is listed as an estimated total of $500,000, with a single expected award. The award size is anticipated to fall between a floor of $60,000 and a ceiling of $135,000. No cost sharing or matching funds are required, which lowers the barrier to participation for eligible institutions and allows proposed work to be driven primarily by technical merit, capacity, and alignment with BLM monitoring and inventory needs rather than by the applicant's ability to contribute additional funding.

Eligibility is limited to institutions of higher education that participate in the CESU Network, as specified in the eligibility information. The listing identifies the activity category as Agriculture, Environment, and Natural Resources, and it is tied to CFDA 15.233, Forests and Woodlands Resource Management. The opportunity was posted and created on May 13, 2011, with an original and current closing date of June 6, 2011, and an archive date of July 6, 2011, indicating it is an older, archived funding announcement rather than an active solicitation.

For applicants who needed full instructions and the application package, the announcement directed them to the application materials via the "APPLICATION" tab in the original posting. The point of contact provided by BLM for access issues and administrative questions was Janet Yvonne Huff, Grants and Agreements Specialist, reachable by phone at 505-761-8941 and by email at jhuff@blm.gov.

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