BLM AZ Cooperative Wildlife & Burned Area Restoration & Noxious Plant Removal within the Gila River Corridor

 

Project Background Information: The projects started in 2007 with the Buckeye Fire. Followed by the Robins Butte (2008) and Powers Fires (2009). This program has primarily been accomplished through the Phoenix District Fire program with cooperation through Arizona Game and Fish. All three fires started out as BAER Burned area emergency rehabilitation projects. The primary objectives are to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations and restore degraded habitat caused by salt cedar infestations along the Gila River. Actions are performed in accordance with the National Fire Plan and the President¿s Healthy Forest Initiative. The actives in this project are a continuation of BLM AZ agreement number L09AC15646. Project Objective: The principle purpose is form a partnership to manage and/or restore wildlife and their habitats on BLM public lands along the Gila River area from the Phoenix metropolitan area, across the Highway 85 bridge west to the Gillespie Dam in Arizona. Specifically, sharing the costs of cooperative projects between the two agencies, including but not limited to cooperative planning, vegetative and physical site restoration, habitat enhancement, habitat maintenance, inventory, monitoring, bio-physical studies, animal re-introductions as well as transplants, public access, cooperative law enforcement, compliance, information and education.

Deleted 07/28/2014 (Archived.) L14AS00143 Agency: Department of the Interior
Office: Bureau of Land Management Cooperative Agreement 1 The electronic submission into Grants.gov is due 21 July 2014@ 17:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. A proposal received after the closing date and time will not be considered for award. 07/21/2014 This program does not have cost sharing or matching requirements. Eddie W Bell Jr, Grants Management Officer, 602-417-9268
ebell@blm.gov
http://www.grants.gov ebell@blm.gov $200,000.00 Awards range from $5,000.00 to $200,000.00