Funding Opportunity Tool

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for work related to:

• Expanding a broad set of the grazing community including minority producers and associated institutions
• Address natural resource concerns and deliver environmental benefits such as improved water and air quality, conserved ground and surface water, increased soil health and reduced soil erosion and sedimentation, improved or created wildlife habitat, and mitigation against drought and increasing weather volatility.
• Address on-farm, watershed, and regional natural resource concerns.
• Adopt regenerative agriculture (e.g., farmers, ranchers, cooperatives) systems and conservation practices
• Adopt regenerative agriculture (e.g., farmers, ranchers, cooperatives) systems and conservation practices
• Adoption and evaluation of innovative conservation approaches
• Agricultural conservation easements
• Agricultural food security into the future
• Agricultural land easements
• Conservation activities
• Create market opportunities for u.s. agricultural and forestry (e.g., non-industrial, forester) products that use climate-smart practices and include innovative, cost-effective ways to measure and verify greenhouse gas benefits.
• Decrease the costs of roadside, park, and waterway maintenance reduce the fire hazard and fire control costs in the state
• Designated drought counties
• Development of healthy soils on farmlands and ranchlands
• Enhancing sustainable agricultural uses
• Environmental stewardship on farms and ranches
• Expand and establish new peer-to-peer networks and direct financial support for mentors working with new, beginning, or transitioning farmers and ranchers engaged in grazing activities.
• Identify actions for climate change mitigation and adaptation
• Implement irrigation systems that conserve water and reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions from irrigation water pumping
• Improve soil carbon, reduce nitrogen losses, or that reduce, capture, avoid or sequester carbon dioxide, methane, or nitrous oxide emissions, associated with agricultural production.
• Improved efficiency with irrigation water and energy use
• Increase acreage across the nation in managed grazing that addresses natural resource concerns.
• Increase availability of technical assistance for farmers and ranchers engaged in grazing activities.
• Increase the profitability and value of cropland and rangeland
• Increase water supply and flow
• Irrigation system water and energy efficiency and nutrient management
• Land improvement projects
• Maintain the recreational and aesthetic value of open space, recreational, and public areas
• Methods for water conservation during severe drought.
• Participation by minority producers in new and existing grazing coalitions
• Permanently protecting croplands, rangelands, and lands utilized for the cultivation of traditional resources from conversion to non-agricultural uses
• Preserving important agricultural land resources
• Protect the biodiversity of native ecosystems
• Protect, restore and enhance wetlands which have been previously degraded due to agricultural uses
• Repair damage to farmlands caused by natural disasters
• Replant or rehabilitate trees, bushes or vines lost during the drought.
• Repurposing agricultural land to reduce reliance on groundwater
• Resiliency of agriculture by addressing climate smart agriculture
• Restore or enhance riparian corridors on agricultural lands
• Restore previously farmed wetlands and wetland buffer to improve both vegetation and water flow.
• Support grazing planning and conservation practice implementation and monitoring, conferences and other education, demonstrations, producer networks, workforce training, research and outreach projects to improve agricultural resilience.
• Support the production of climate-smart commodities.

• Wetland reserve easements

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for work related to activities that support under-resourced communities in accessing funding and resources to plan and implement climate mitigation, adaptation, and resiliency projects.

These activities may include:

• Conduct outreach and build awareness of competitive grant programs
• Convene stakeholders to discuss community needs regarding potential climate change mitigation and adaptation projects
• Develop community and project plans, demonstrating local needs and identifying multiple-benefit projects for implementation
• Support the development of partnerships between stakeholders and potential public and private funding sources
• Provide policy, program, and technical advice to stakeholders and align multi-benefit projects with potential funding resources
• Serve as an intermediary between community stakeholders and technical assistance programs within relevant agencies and coordinate scientific and technical support from outside experts
• Coordinate and implement assistance and training to stakeholders in grant application development, project management, implementation, and monitoring
• Assist in the development of local job training and anti-displacement programs and policies

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for work related to activities that:

• Contribute to mitigation of the environmental effects of transportation facilities
• Invests in community-led climate resilience projects in the state’s most disadvantaged communities
• Advance learning and scale effective climate adaptation interventions to help wildlife, ecosystems and the people who value and depend on them
• Community-led climate resilience and restorative justice work following dam removal
• Invest in and amplify restoration and revitalization with a focus on tribal self-determination, community healing, climate resilience, science and restoration, regenerative agricultural and environmental stewardship

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for work related to:

• Enhancement of recreation opportunities through trail building, maintenance and restoration, and other improvements to visitor and recreation facilities (e.g. kiosks, campgrounds, signage etc.)
• Monitoring riparian area vegetation and hydrological functions, collecting soil and stream data, timber stand improvement projects for wildlife habitat and overall forest health
• Habitat restoration and wildlife protection, including reduction of invasive species, tree planting, fence removal/installation, riparian area restoration, etc.
• Development and implementation of natural and cultural resource stewardship plans or educational and informational materials for visitors
• Performance of studies such as resource inventories, historic or archival research, archaeological excavation or stabilization, oral histories, historic preservation, habitat surveys, etc.
• Preservation of cultural resources, including historic structures
• Seed collection for restoration of lands affected by natural disasters such as catastrophic wildfires and landslides; as well as protection, conservation, and restoration of threatened, endangered, and special status species with the goal of preventing or delisting of species
• Reduction of wildfire risk to communities, watersheds, and other public land ecosystems
• Production of materials and programs on natural, cultural, and/or paleontological resources, communication, education, and interpretation of natural and cultural resources
• Performance of in-house projects, such as science, policy, or program internships, with a clear benefit for natural or cultural resources
• Expands outdoor recreation opportunities

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for work that:

• Addresses drought impacts
• Addresses loss or contamination of their water supplies due to the drought
• Addresses drought impacts on human health and safety
• Protect fish and wildlife resources
• Support to help small communities survive this and future droughts
• Implement regional programs that address drought-related and/or contamination issues for state small water systems (state smalls) and domestic wells serving disadvantaged communities (dacs) and low-income household
• Help communities prepare for and respond to drought
• Support drought contingency planning to build resilience to drought in advance of a crisis
• Conserve, better manage or use water more efficiently

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to support:

• Fish passage improvements
• Increasing ecological, stream management, climate, and community improvement benefits
• Innovations in green infrastructure to provide habitat enhancements that benefit aquatic species and fish migration & help wildlife endure drought and adapt to climate change
• Multi-benefit ecosystem and watershed protection and restoration projects
• Planning, amendment, or renewal phases of a habitat conservation plan (hcp),
• Protecting, restoring, and enhancing wetlands and associated habitats
• Restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife resources
• Restoring and protect the california coast, increase public access to it, and increase communities’ resilience to climate change
• Road decommissioning, road crossing upgrades, erosion and sediment delivery prevention actions, culvert upgrades, water conservation, cleanup and remediation of impacts of illicit cannabis operations on private lands, and/or enhancing biodiversity and wildlife habitat within watersheds, among other projects of similar nature
• Watershed and community enhancements in areas impacted by cannabis cultivation

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to assist communities prepare for, or recover from, an emergency that threatens the availability of safe, reliable drinking water.

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Agricultural producers and rural small businesses for renewable energy systems or to make energy efficiency improvements
• Agricultural producers for new energy efficient equipment and new system loans for agricultural production and processing

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Support the development and implementation of States’ programs to conserve and recover threatened and endangered species
• Aid in the recovery of these species under the ESA
• Help conserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend
• Secure information about endangered or threatened species
• Support the development of new Habitat Conservation Plans (hcps), Safe harusbr Agreements (shas), and Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances (ccaas)
• Support the implementation of priority recovery actions for federally endangered and threatened species

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to assist at-risk local communities and Indian Tribes with planning and mitigating against the risk created by wildfire.

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Reopen migratory pathways and restore access to healthy habitat for fish around the country
• improve or restore anadromous fish passage through the replacement, removal, repair, or improvement of culverts or weirs
• Provide fish (and other aquatic organisms) passage and restore aquatic connectivity for the benefit of federal trust resource

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Private and public investment in, and improved management of, forest lands and resources
• Address transportation infrastructure on or adjacent to USFS land
• Assist owners of non-industrial private forests restore forest health damaged by natural disasters
• Assist with forest health, fuel reduction, and upland
  wildlife habitat in winter mule deer winter range

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Prevent, eliminate, or reduce the environmental and public health and safety risks associated with aquatic nuisance species
• Identify/implement feasible, cost-effective management practices and measures to be undertaken by states to prevent and control aquatic nuisance species infestations in an environmentally sound manner.
• Identify/implement strategic, ecologically-based landscape-level invasive species prevention measures that benefit multiple bureaus and geographic areas;
• Identify/implement efforts to stop the introduction of invasive species into the united states as well as the secondary spread of invasive species already present as many introduced species have not achieved their potential geographic and ecologic distributions

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Acquire real property or rights in real property
• Acquire threatened and endangered species habitat in support of approved habitat conservation plans (hcps).
• Acquire land, or land development, for outdoor public recreation access.
• Conserve lands and wildlife habitat of national significance, and to benefit local communities and local economies
• Remove environmentally sensitive land from agricultural production and plant species that will improve environmental health and quality
• Address specific natural resource objectives for the benefit of eligible agricultural producers and landowners
• Acquire land that will conserve species habitat in perpetuity through fee simple acquisition or the acquisition of permanent conservation easements.
• Purchase of interests in land for the purpose of maintaining or restoring watersheds and habitat for native fish or wildlife.

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for research to:

• Advance fundamental knowledge related to disaster resilience
• Advance an integrated, robust, and scale-aware predictive understanding of terrestrial systems and their interdependent microbial, biogeochemical, ecological, hydrological, and physical processes
• Improve access to and use of hydrologic data as well as to develop and improve water management tools and improve modeling and forecasting capabilities
• Promote, improve, and maintain healthy agroecosystems and the natural resources that are essential to the sustained long-term production of agricultural and forestry (e.g., non-industrial, forester) goods and services
• Collect and report water-use data
• Evaluate water supply and demand and help ensure reliable water supplies by identifying strategies to address imbalances in water supply and demand
• Support reservoir operations planning, appraisal and feasibility studies, basin studies, drought contingency planning and environmental analyses

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for “small acts of kindness” for the benefit of water quality, water quantity, and fish and wildlife. From planting native plants along stream sides to reducing sedimentation and erosion from upland farms and ranches, citizens everywhere can make a difference.

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for technical assistance to:

• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve public health and the environment, and support economic opportunity and shared prosperity
• Administer funds, capacity building, technical assistance, training, reports/studies, tools, and other eligible activities to protect human health and the environment
• Better facilitate aquatic management projects with partners, in areas of mutual interest
• Support costs associated with local CREP program implementation including staffing, travel, training, outreach, and planning
• Increase the number, acreage, and complexity of collaboratively planned restoration projects on federal lands
• Implement local inflation reduction act (ITA) programs
• Support practices that maintain or enhance both agriculture and natural resources such as fish and wildlife on agricultural lands
• Support the operations of existing partnerships, or collaborating groups of organizations, to enhance partnership capacity, develop a strategic action plan, conduct stakeholder engagement related to strategic action plan development, and coordinate strategic action plan implementation.

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Support the development and implementation of programs for the benefit of wildlife and their habitats and species of Tribal cultural or traditional importance, including species that are not hunted or fished
• Secure information about candidate and other at-risk species to avert listing of species pursuant to the ESA, and to help conserve the ecosystems upon which these species depend
• Reopen migratory pathways and restore access to healthy habitat for tribally-important species
• Develop or refine tribal programs which protect, manage, and restore wetlands.
• Establish an Extension presence and support Extension outreach on Federally Recognized Indian Reservations and Tribal jurisdictions of Federally Recognized Tribes
• Support conservation programs for listed marine and anadromous species under its jurisdiction

Includes opportunities that may provide funding for projects that contribute to:

• Conserving and using water more efficiently; mitigate conflict risk in areas at a high risk of future water conflict; enable farmers to make additional on-farm improvements in the future
• Reducing groundwater use, repurpose irrigated agricultural lands, and providing wildlife habitat
• Encouraging integrated regional strategies for water resource management by providing funding for projects and programs including climate change adaptation, providing incentives for collaboration and setting priorities in water resource and infrastructure management, and improving regional water self-reliance
• Reducing non-point source pollution that threaten or impair surface and ground waters
• Preventing and cleanup contamination of groundwater that serves (or has served) as a source of drinking water
• Augmenting or offsetting fresh water supplies
• Investigating the feasibility of recycling wastewater and assisting them with completing planning for water recycling projects by supplementing local funds.
• Conserving and using water more efficiently; increase the production of hydropower; mitigate conflict risk in areas at a high risk of future water conflict; and accomplish other benefits that contribute to water supply reliability
• Assisting agricultural and urban water districts in preparing and implementing water conservation plans.
• Planning, design, and construction of small surface water and groundwater storage facilities
• Water infrastructure projects including green infrastructure, protection or restoration of riparian areas, agricultural conservation, nonpoint source control activities, stormwater management, sewer replacement projects, planning and design,
• Implementing watershed based plans
• Increasing instream flow to address the conservation needs of habitats and species and to improve water quality

Includes opportunities that may provide funding to:

• Ensure self-sustaining populations and a natural abundance and diversity of wildlife on public lands for the enjoyment and use of present and future generations
• Assist with fuels management and community fire assistance program activities to reduce the risk and impact of catastrophic wildfires to local communities through coordination, reducing the amount of hazardous fuels, and furthering the education of landowners about wildfire prevention and mitigation
• Protect, preserve, restore, enhance, and develop migratory waterfowl breeding and wintering habitat, evaluate habitat projects, and conduct waterfowl resource assessments and other waterfowl related research
• Increase understanding the resources present on BLM lands and the effectiveness of BLM’s resource management decisions