BLM CA Challenge Cost Share Program Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units California State University Chico Cultural Recources Recordation

Post Date

April 23rd 2014

Application Due Date

May 23rd 2014

Funding Opportunity Number

L14AS00080

CFDA Number(s)

15.238

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $100000

• Award Range:

  $500 - $100000

Grant Description

The Challenge Cost Share Program was started in 1985 when Congress appropriated funding for partnership conservation projects to benefit wildlife. The CCS program in California provides funding for the following types of wildlife activities and projects: research, monitoring and inventory of wildlife resources;implementation of habitat improvement projects;providing for enhanced recreational experiences relating to wildlife;development and implementation of species conservation and recovery plans; and environmental education. To partner with a CESU California State University at, CSU-Chico to conduct inventories, cultural resource recordation, prepare inventory reports, cultural resource restoration, develop and recommend cultural resource protection measures, and provide analysis for BLM collections currently housed at the Nevada State museum and other Museumкs. One such collection results from an excavation project carried out in the early 1950s in which includes human bone. The collection is currently housed at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada. Two Tribal Groups have indicated an interest in submitting a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act application to repatriate the entire collection which includes human bone.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Land Management

• Agency Contact:

  Leona B Parker, GMO, 530-252-5338
  lparker@blm.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  lparker@blm.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  lparker@blm.gov

• More Information:

  https://www.grants.gov