BLM OR-WA Inventory, Analysis, and Monitoring of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Wildlife | L17AS00162

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The grant opportunity titled "BLM OR-WA Inventory, Analysis, and Monitoring of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Wildlife" is a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) cooperative agreement aimed at improving how wildlife resources are documented, studied, and tracked over time in and around the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (CSNM) in Oregon and Washington. It is rooted in needs identified in the monument's Resource Management Plan (RMP), which calls for targeted inventory work, deeper biological analysis, and ongoing monitoring to ensure the monument's wildlife-related resources, objects, and values are protected in the way the monument was created to be protected. In practical terms, the opportunity is about gathering high-quality field and analytical information that can directly inform BLM management decisions, strengthen long-term conservation planning, and support the broader public interest in maintaining the monument's ecological integrity.

The work described emphasizes several categories of scientific activity. First, it includes baseline inventory and long-term monitoring, meaning projects may focus on documenting where species occur, how abundant they are, how their habitats are changing, and whether populations appear stable, increasing, or declining over time. Second, it explicitly encourages biodiversity analysis and focused studies on key wildlife groups that are important to the monument's ecological character and management priorities. The species and taxa highlighted include birds, the fisher (Pekania pennanti), and Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), all of which can serve as indicators of habitat condition and broader ecosystem function. The opportunity also highlights two amphibian species of particular conservation interest, the Oregon spotted frog (Rana pretiosa) and the foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana boylii), and notes that survey work for these frogs is expected to use an environmental DNA (eDNA) approach. That is a modern monitoring method that detects genetic material shed by organisms into water or other environmental samples, allowing detection of species presence without necessarily capturing or visually observing individuals, which can be especially valuable for rare, hard-to-detect, or sensitive species and for reducing disturbance in occupied habitats.

Administratively, this is a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, and it is issued as a cooperative agreement rather than a standard contract. That structure generally signals a partnership-oriented project where BLM expects to be substantially involved during the project period, such as coordinating study locations, aligning methods with management needs, sharing data standards, and integrating results into planning. The funding activity category is Natural Resources, and the assistance listing is CFDA 15.231. The opportunity was open to unrestricted eligible applicants (meaning it was broadly available to many entity types, subject to any additional eligibility language in the full notice). The original posting was created June 14, 2017, with an original closing date of August 13, 2017.

In terms of funding scale and competition, the award ceiling listed is $45,000, with an expectation of a single award. That suggests a relatively focused project scope, such as a targeted field season of surveys, a pilot monitoring effort, a specific analysis of existing datasets, development of a monitoring protocol, or a combination of these activities packaged into a single deliverable-driven effort. Overall, the central purpose is to build actionable scientific information about priority wildlife resources in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument area, strengthen long-term monitoring capacity, and provide BLM with credible findings that help guide land management decisions that protect and enhance monument lands and resources for the public.

• The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM OR-WA Inventory, Analysis, and Monitoring of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Wildlife" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.231.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 14, 2017.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 13, 2017. (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 $45,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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