BLM WY Vegetation and Climate Change Workshops

Post Date

May 24th 2010

Application Due Date

June 10th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

L10AS00102

CFDA Number(s)

15.233

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

This Funding Announcement is not a request for applications. This announcement is to provide public notice of the Bureau of Land Management's intention to fund the following project activities without full and open competition. Awarded will be made to the University of Wyoming.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $10000

• Award Range:

  $10000 - $10000

Grant Description

A. Project Background Information: The University of Wyoming is in the process of developing climate change workshops to give public land managers better knowledge and understanding of the impacts of climate change on vegetative resources in Wyoming. This essential information will be conveyed thru a series of workshops set up for land managers in the upcoming year. B. Project Objective: Provide training in climate change impacts on vegetation management by developing and presenting the following workshops: 1-Two Living on the Edge integrating science into management of range-margin populations workshops to be co-sponsored with the Society of American Foresters. The workshops will discuss plant species ranges and potential changes due to changing climate to be held in Laramie and Cody/Thermopolis in November. 2- One mountain pine beetle workshop to be co-sponsored by multiple agencies which will deal with this widespread and insect infestation and management options in a changing. C. Period of Agreement: July 1, 2010 thru June 30, 2011

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Land Management

• Agency Contact:

  Ilze J Karklins-Powers, Grants Management Officer, 307-775-6293
  ipowers@blm.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  ipowers@blm.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  ipowers@blm.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov