Opportunity Information: Apply for L25AS00311
The FY25 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Conservation Lands - Management Studies Support Program is a discretionary federal funding opportunity that will be awarded through cooperative agreements. Its main purpose is to fund management-focused studies that help BLM better understand the resources and values found on National Conservation Lands (NCL) and evaluate how well current management decisions are working. In practical terms, BLM is looking for projects that generate or compile solid, decision-ready information (for example, through research, monitoring, assessments, data synthesis, or other applied studies) that can directly inform land management strategies on BLM-administered conservation units and potentially benefit other land management organizations as well.
A core emphasis of the program is partnership-driven conservation stewardship. BLM is explicitly seeking to develop and maintain strong working relationships with a range of external partners, including state and local governments, universities, tribes and tribal organizations, and nonprofit organizations. The studies supported under this program are expected to be grounded in real management needs and produce results that can be used by field offices and program staff to improve planning, implementation, and evaluation of conservation actions. The program also highlights the value of using the best available data and synthesizing existing knowledge where appropriate, and it explicitly connects this work to broader priorities such as supporting BLM decision processes, enabling citizen science approaches, and advancing tribal co-stewardship initiatives.
Eligibility is limited to non-federal entities such as state governments, counties, cities or townships, public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, federally recognized tribal governments, other tribal organizations, and nonprofits (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3)). Individuals and for-profit organizations are not eligible to apply under this notice of funding opportunity (NOFO). Another important restriction is that this NOFO is not intended to support projects that involve hiring interns or crews under the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993. BLM notes that the Public Lands Corps Act is the only authority that allows BLM to "hire" interns under that framework, and as a result, youth corps-style internship or crew proposals should be routed through a different funding opportunity: NOFO 15.243, BLM Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands, rather than through this management studies program.
The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.248 and is categorized under Natural Resources. The funding opportunity number is L25AS00311, and the agency is the Bureau of Land Management. The posted award ceiling is $45,000 per award. The posting lists expected awards but does not provide a number in the source information provided. The original application closing date is July 11, 2025, and the opportunity was created on June 10, 2025.
The NOFO also addresses projects proposed through Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs), which are collaborative networks designed to promote and provide research, studies, monitoring, technical assistance, and related educational services. If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement and the work is consistent with the CESU purpose, the program limits indirect costs to no more than 17.5 percent of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner's federally approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA). Applicants are expected to clearly state whether their proposal supports the CESU mission, and if it does, they should indicate which CESU Network should be considered as the host.Apply for L25AS00311
- The Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "FY25 Bureau of Land Management National Conservation Lands- Management Studies Support Program" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.248.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2025-06-10.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2025-07-11. (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.
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Public and State controlled institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized), 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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