Closed · L25AS00299 · CFDA 15.245 · Discretionary
FY25 Bureau of Land Management Plant Conservation and Restoration Management- Bureau wide
Federal grant opportunity posted by Bureau of Land Management, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $10K-$3M
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- July 23, 2025
- Close date
- -
- Expected awards
The verdict
FY25 Bureau of Land Management Plant Conservation and Restoration Management- Bureau wide is a closed discretionary listing from Bureau of Land Management that offered $10,000 -- $3,000,000. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number.
- $10K-$3M
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 15.245
- CFDA program
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement - FY25 Bureau of Land Management Plant Conservation and Restoration Management- Bureau wide - is cataloged under number L25AS00299 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 15.245, posted by Bureau of Land Management. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as closed, first posted on June 23, 2025. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $10,000 -- $3,000,000. The agency has projected $14.0 million in total estimated funding for this announcement. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
Deadline and action path. This opportunity closed on July 23, 2025. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number, so monitoring the parent program page is the most reliable way to catch re-announcements. Every Grants.gov submission requires an active SAM.gov registration and a Unique Entity ID. Review the Eligibility section below carefully, federal eligibility categories (nonprofit, state or local government, tribal, individual, educational institution, small business) have distinct registration and reporting requirements. Pre-application outreach to the listed agency contact is permitted and often welcomed, it helps clarify scope and scoring priorities. Before acting on the deadline or award figures above, verify them directly on the official Grants.gov listing, amendments can change dates and amounts after this page was last refreshed.
Award Range
$10,000 -- $3,000,000
Close Date
July 23, 2025
Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m., ET, on the listed application due dates. Applications must be submitted through grants.gov.Applications will be reviewed, rated, ranked and selected via merit review committee.Open from June 23, 2025 through July 23, 2025.Extensions to NOFO close dates will be unallowed, except in extenuating circumstances.
Posted
June 23, 2025
Est. Total Funding
$14,000,000
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
The BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Program (PCRP) advances the Department of the Interior's priorities to protect human health and safety, unleashing American energy, and delivering price relief for American families by increasing the quantity of native seed that is available to stabilize soils and protect human health and safety following wildfire, hurricanes, and other natural disasters, meet permitting requirements for energy development, and improving market availability of native seed through partnerships with farmers and small producers. A primary purpose of the program is to increase the national native seed supply chain by working with private industry, federal, state, tribal and other partners. BLM uses the native seed supply to maintain and restore multiple use and sustained yield on public lands including livestock grazing, timber production, wildlife habitat, recreational use, and orphaned well and abandoned mine land reclamation. Improving native seed availability and stability in the market will lead to lower seed costs, lower risk incurred by producers, and more American jobs related to the native seed production pipeline. Improving the native seed pipeline will also result in increasing project success, with reclamation projects meeting standards with long-term vegetative establishment and reduced noxious weed occurrence and grazing lands meeting land health standards, ultimately improving the health and benefits public lands provide for multiple use and sustainable yield. In 2025 the PCRP is focused on meeting the priorities of the National Seed Strategy (www.blm.gov/seedstrategy) in ways that directly support department and administration priorities including: public safety following catastrophic wildfire, economic development in rural communities, and empowering state resource stewardship partnerships on public lands.The BLM Plant Conservation and Restoration Program is especially focused on projects that:1. Work with partners to make local seed collections that will be used to increase the diversity of native species available on the native seed market while at the same time fostering employment opportunities.2. Support local farmers and non-profit organizations who wish to enter the native seed market and establish native seed production fields that will help support rural economies and foster shared environmental stewardship.3. Support local nursery production of species that cannot be directly seeded to help support post natural disaster recovery and create jobs that will help support rural economies.4. Generate the applied science needed to lower seed production costs, lower farmer risk, improve post fire stabilization project success and support sound agency decisions about the native seed supply chain.The BLM has opportunities to work with partner organizations to do activities such as:Work with state agency agriculture departments, the Natural Resource Conservation Service and other organizations to make it easier for small farmers to enter the commercial seed market.Work with state wildlife agencies, and other organizations to implement post fire stabilization and recovery projects; restore big game migration corridors; habitat for sage grouse, other priority species, wetlands, and riparian habitat.Develop the technology, expertise and capacity needed to collect, clean, grow and bank native species that industry has difficulty producing.Collect native seed from species and genotypes that are challenging to locate and harvest.Implement applied science and actions to maintain populations of special status plant species and prevent state and federal listing actions which could adversely affect mineral and energy development.Develop strategies to improve the use of native seed and plant materials for restoration and reclamation across all BLM associated programs such as Wildlife, Oil & Gas,Minerals, Fuels, Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation, Range, and Renewable Energy.
Eligibility
Grants.gov lists this opportunity under eligibility category codes 00, 01, 02, 06, 07, 11, 12, 13, 20. These codes correspond to applicant types (state/local government, tribal organization, nonprofit, educational institution, individual, small business, etc.) defined in Grants.gov's own eligibility reference. See the current Grants.gov eligibility categories or check the official listing below for this opportunity's exact eligibility statement.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
Yesenia Diaz ydiaz@blm.gov
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