Assistance program
Plant Conservation and Restoration Management
$70.7 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants);Training
- CFDA number
- 15.245
- What it does
- This Program was created in response to large-scale wildfires in the Western US. Due to lack of native seed in 2001 Congress directed the BLM to establish a native plant material program recommending that federal and non-federal partners coordinate efforts through the Plant Conservation Alliance established in 1994. BLM provides leadership in identifying, maintaining, and restoring Western native plant communities on public lands. Public lands contain a diversity of native plant communities comprised of over 50 ecoregions across public lands. In the future, BLM will continue to work with partners to focus on increasing the diversity of locally adapted forbs and grasses for restoration of wildlife habitat and rehabilitation after wildfires.
- Who benefits
- All Public Land users.
- Who applies
- Not Applicable
- Authorized by
- Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976, Public Law 94-579, 43 USC §1737 (b); Plant Protection Act of 2000 (PL 106-224), Federal Noxious Weed Act of 1974 (Sections 1 and 15), 7 USC 2814; P.L. 93-629, as amended by PL 101-624; Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreemen…
- Watershed Restoration and Enhancement Agreements (aka The Wyden Amendment) 16 U.S.C. § 1011
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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