Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Plant Conservation and Restoration Management | L21AS00295

Opportunity Information: Apply for L21AS00295

The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering a discretionary funding opportunity titled "Wyoming Plant Conservation and Restoration Management" under Funding Opportunity Number L21AS00295. The award instrument is a cooperative agreement, which typically means BLM expects to have substantial involvement in the funded work rather than simply providing a pass-through grant. The program falls under the Natural Resources funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 15.245. The opportunity was created on February 2, 2021, and the original application closing date was April 5, 2021.

This opportunity is focused on plant conservation and restoration management efforts in Wyoming, aligning with BLM land stewardship responsibilities and natural resource management priorities. While the short description provided does not list specific project types, the title indicates support for work that helps conserve native plant resources and restore or manage vegetation in ways that improve ecosystem health on public lands. In practice, opportunities with this framing often support activities like native plant conservation actions, habitat or vegetation restoration planning and implementation, monitoring and assessment related to plant communities, and management approaches that help sustain or recover native species and plant-based habitats. Because the funding instrument is a cooperative agreement, applicants should generally expect coordination with BLM staff on planning, methods, priorities, reporting, and possibly field implementation details.

Eligible applicants include a broad set of public and nonprofit entities: state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized Native American tribal governments; other Native American tribal organizations; public housing authorities and Indian housing authorities; and nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status (as long as they are not institutions of higher education, which are listed separately). A key restriction is explicitly stated: individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply under this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO). This eligibility limitation is central to the announcement and should be treated as a threshold requirement before investing time in proposal development.

The maximum award amount (award ceiling) is $30,000. The source data does not specify the number of expected awards, but the ceiling suggests this is a small grant opportunity intended to support targeted, localized projects, partnerships, or discrete components of larger conservation and restoration efforts. Applicants considering this opportunity would typically need to design a clearly scoped project that can be completed within a modest budget, with well-defined deliverables and outcomes appropriate to BLM plant conservation and restoration goals in Wyoming.

• The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Department of the Interior – Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Plant Conservation and Restoration Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.245.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2021-02-02.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2021-04-05. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $30,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), Public housing authorities/Indian housing authorities, Native American tribal organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments), Nonprofits having a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501 (c) (3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Private institutions of higher education.

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