Federal Natural Resources Grants

This federal grant provides funding to state and local agencies for land acquisition projects that improve outdoor recreation access and support military readiness near military installations.

This grant provides funding to various organizations, including local governments and nonprofits, to promote outdoor recreation and heritage tourism in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, fostering community economic development and enhancing visitor experiences.

This funding opportunity supports long-term research projects in evolutionary biology, ecology, and ecosystem science, specifically for U.S.-based educational institutions and nonprofit organizations that have already collected at least six years of core data.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to grassroots watershed groups and organizations in the U.S. for collaborative planning and development of projects that improve water supply reliability, quality, and ecosystem resilience.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to public entities in the western United States for the planning, design, and construction of desalination facilities that create new, drought-resistant water supplies.

This funding opportunity is designed for U.S. institutions conducting research on the cryosphere, including ice and snow dynamics, to advance NASA's scientific objectives.

This program provides low-interest loans to states and eligible entities for various water quality improvement projects, including wastewater treatment and stormwater management, to enhance public health and environmental sustainability.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to state and county governments in the Gulf Coast region for construction and real property acquisition projects that enhance environmental restoration, economic revitalization, and infrastructure improvements following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

This grant provides funding to state agencies for the permanent protection of privately owned forest lands through conservation easements or land purchases, benefiting public resources and environmental conservation.

This grant provides funding to a wide range of organizations, including governments, nonprofits, and tribal entities, to support projects that protect and restore wetlands and their habitats for migratory birds and other wildlife across the United States.

This funding opportunity provides financial support for collaborative projects that improve water management and conservation efforts across the western United States, targeting states, tribes, and water-related organizations.

This grant provides financial assistance to local governments, tribal entities, and nonprofit organizations for the acquisition and conservation of private forestland to benefit communities through sustainable management and public access.

This program provides funding for researchers studying geological and geophysical processes in marine environments, including ocean basins and the Great Lakes, to enhance our understanding of Earth's marine systems and their significance.

This grant provides funding to state and county governments in the Gulf Coast region for non-construction activities that restore natural resources, promote tourism, and support economic growth following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

This funding opportunity provides financial support to state and territorial wildlife agencies for conservation projects that protect at-risk species and their habitats, promoting collaborative efforts across regions.

This funding opportunity provides financial and technical support for conservation projects on private lands to restore and protect habitats for at-risk wildlife, including migratory birds and endangered species, through partnerships with various organizations and landowners.

This program provides funding for researchers to develop innovative engineering solutions that protect human and ecological health by addressing pollution and improving environmental quality.

This funding opportunity supports innovative research in atmospheric, geospace, earth, and ocean sciences, encouraging collaboration among academic institutions, national laboratories, and industry to advance scientific knowledge and technology.

The United States Department of the Interior (Department), Bureau of Reclamations (Reclamation) Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program (Program) aims to improve the skill of water supply forecasts via enhancing snow monitoring through the deployment of emerging technologies to complement existing monitoring techniques and networks. This new program was authorized in December 2020 by P.L. 116-260, Sec. 1111, Snow Water Supply Forecasting Program Authorization Act. The program was authorized for FY 2022 -FY 2026.Reservoir operations and related water management decisions rely on estimates of current and future water availability. These estimates depend on technologies to observe basin conditions such as snowpack. In many Western basins, snowpack and subsequent snowmelt runoff constitutes a significant portion of the annual water supply. Accordingly, monitoring snowpack is of great interest to water managers and water users alike. Traditionally, basin snowpack information is based on a sparse network of observing stations across large watersheds. These networks provide high quality information at station locations but extrapolating that information to an entire watershed is a challenge. This challenge, in large part, motivates the Program.As such, the NOFO invites proposals from eligible applicants that are invested in and capable of demonstrating emerging or deploying existing snow monitoring technologies and/or use of snow monitoring data to enhance water supply forecast skill. Considering this and the Acts emphasis on partner agency coordination, strong applications will have partnerships with water management and forecasting entities to facilitate transfer of knowledge, foster use of data in forecasts, and evaluate utility of information for informing water management decisions. This supports Department of the Interior priority of addressing the drought crisis by providing water managers the best available information to inform the management of this scarce and critical resource.In Phase I, applicants submit technical proposals in the required format and length as specified in Section D.2.1.4 Project Proposal as well as with the required content. Submission to Phase I is required for Phase II consideration.Reclamations application review committee (ARC) will select a set of highly qualified applications from Phase I to move to Phase II of the application process. Submission to Phase I is required for Phase II consideration. If the selected applicants are not present for Phase II, their proposals are automatically disqualified from proceeding further and will be ineligible for an award. Phase II will entail a 30-minute virtual (web meeting) project/proposal pitch presentation to a review panel, followed by 20 minutes of question and answer with the review panel. Those selected to advance to Phase II will be notified of the presentation requirements and logistics with a minimum 4 weeks notice.

History/Background: Marine Corps Air Station Miramar (MCAS Miramar) has been an active installation since the 1940s, focusing on providing services, material support, and training venues that promote combat readiness. Since, its inception and the establishment of the Sikes Act in 1960, MCAS Miramar has actively been monitoring the effects of military land use on the overall condition of natural resources. In 1994, the Center for Earth Systems Analysis Research, a shared educational and research center located at San Diego State University, established a long term monitoring protocol to provide the mechanism for documenting the effects of military operations and training on vegetation native to MCAS Miramar. This protocol provided a continuous database of which to assist in altering land management actions to ensure long-term availability of natural areas for training and conservation. Brief Description of Anticipated Work: The project is to develop and implement a work plan for the current iteration of this monitoring effort, re-survey 82 permanently established monitoring plots according to MCAS Miramars standardized ecosystem monitoring program that inventories and monitors the condition of training lands and natural resources, identify and describe any ecological trends developing as indicated by the previous and current survey efforts for the monitoring plots, provide detailed site descriptions and information on disturbance and erosion, provide individual summaries of the composition, structure and site characteristics of the 82 plots surveyed in the 2003 LTEM report, provide contrast of summaries of the individual plots that comprise each major vegetation type for the three survey efforts, provide evaluation and discussion of management implications, provide photographic documentation of the plots, and submit draft and final reports along with all associated Geographical Information System (GIS) deliverables and maps for this monitoring effort that integrates all years efforts, results, analyses, evaluates the effectiveness of this effort. Please see enclosure 1 for full scope of work and enclosure 2 for applicable terms and conditions.