NM Invasive and Noxious Plant Management | L20AS00063

Opportunity Information: Apply for L20AS00063

The NM Invasive and Noxious Plant Management opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L20AS00063) is a discretionary federal grant offered by the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management (BLM). It is designed to support coordinated, on-the-ground and programmatic efforts in New Mexico to address noxious weeds and other invasive plant species. The central idea is to improve results by working across boundaries, so that neighboring landowners and jurisdictions are not treating infestations in isolation and inadvertently allowing re-infestation from untreated adjacent areas.

Funding is provided through a cooperative agreement, which typically means BLM expects to have substantial involvement during the project. In practice, that often includes collaboration on planning, implementation, technical guidance, data standards, reporting, and aligning work with broader invasive species strategies. The overall activity category is Natural Resources (CFDA 15.230), and the project focus is on both rapid response to new infestations and sustained treatment to reduce or eliminate established infestations.

Projects supported under this opportunity may include a mix of coordinated treatments, inventories, and monitoring, along with education, outreach, and prevention. "Treatments" can involve mechanical, chemical, cultural, or integrated vegetation management approaches aimed at controlling or removing invasive and noxious plants. "Inventories" generally refer to surveying and mapping infestations to understand where species are present and how they are spreading. "Monitoring" helps measure whether treatments are effective over time and whether follow-up work is needed. Education and outreach components can include training field crews and partners, informing the public or land managers about identification and best practices, and promoting behaviors that reduce spread (for example, equipment cleaning, weed-free materials, or early reporting). Prevention activities emphasize stopping new introductions and limiting spread corridors so that management is not perpetually reactive.

A key feature of this opportunity is the emphasis on collaborative, multi-jurisdictional coordination. BLM is looking for efforts that create efficiencies by aligning priorities, pooling resources, sharing data, and coordinating treatment schedules across federal, state, tribal, local, and private or nonprofit partners. This can be especially important for invasive species management because infestations often span ownership boundaries and watershed or landscape units, and control is more durable when treatments are synchronized and follow-up is planned collectively.

Eligible applicants are broad and include state, county, and city or township governments; special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; federally recognized tribal governments and other tribal organizations; and nonprofit organizations (both 501(c)(3) and non-501(c)(3), excluding universities for those nonprofit categories). This wide eligibility is consistent with the cross-boundary nature of weed and invasive plant management and allows partnerships that reflect local conditions and management authorities.

The award ceiling listed for this opportunity is $200,000, with an estimated five awards expected. The opportunity was created on February 26, 2020, and the original closing date for applications was April 27, 2020. Overall, the grant is aimed at practical, coordinated actions that reduce invasive plant impacts, improve management effectiveness, and prevent future spread by integrating treatment, detection, monitoring, and outreach across multiple land management jurisdictions in New Mexico.

• The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NM Invasive and Noxious Plant Management" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.230.
• This funding opportunity was created on Feb 26, 2020.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 27, 2020. (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 $200,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 5 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Special district governments, Independent school districts, 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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