Project Database

BLM OR/WA CESU Connley Caves Curation

Project ID: L16AC00286 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $26,000 Total Funding: $26,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Objective(s): • Proactive studies, including inventory, excavation, and collections-based studies; • Proper use of sites in training future Historians, Archaeologists and Paleontologists through research projects, field schools and internships. • Documenting existing collections at authorized curation facilities through accessioning, cataloging and inventorying those…

August 30, 2021

BLM OR/WA CESU Digitization of Artifacts from Northern Great Basin

Project ID: L16AC00288 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,000 Total Funding: $25,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Objective(s): Create a digital record of more than 5,000 organic archaeological artifacts preserved in the dry caves of the Northern Great Basin and curated at the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (UOMNCH) and make them available on the UOMNCH…

BLM OR/WA CESU Flora of the Pacific Northwest Revision

Project ID: L14AC00032 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $39,999 Total Funding: $94,999 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This financial assistance agreement is made and entered into by the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Oregon State Office (OSO), and the University of Washington (UW) for the purpose of updating the Flora of the Pacific Northwest reference manual, creating…

BLM OR/WA CESU Oregon Consensus Facilitation for Resource Management Plans

Project ID: L14AC00130 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $200,000 Total Funding: $440,283 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: New FY14 TA, didn’t receive until 10/2015.

BLM OR/WA CESU Oregon Flora

Project ID: L18AC00170 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $48,000 Total Funding: $48,000 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA CESU Oregon Sagegrouse and Sagebrush Obligate Songbird Conservation Research

Project ID: L17AC00296 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $90,000 Total Funding: $173,500 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA CESU Potential Fossil Yield Classification and Curation

Project ID: L16AC00285 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $45,000 Total Funding: $45,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Objective(s): • Engage in proactive studies of BLM Oregon paleontological resources, including inventory, excavation, and studies of existing collections in the CFC. • Promote public engagement, learning opportunities, and paleontological ethics through outreach programs and events hosted by the UO MNCH. • Teach…

BLM OR/WA CESU Sage Grouse Habitat Monitoring and Assessment

Project ID: L16AC00091 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $556,110 Total Funding: $1,711,110 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Inventory and monitor sage-grouse seasonal habitat and habitat use patterns at multiple landscape scales using procedures in the Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy; Collaborate with BLM on identification of study areas and methods for this project; Delineate or refine seasons sage-grouse habitat maps;…

BLM OR/WA CESU Strengthening Education and Employment for Diverse Students

Project ID: L12AC20548 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,000 Total Funding: $25,000 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA Oregon Spotted Frog Distribution and Movement Study for Parsnip Lakes Habitat Restoration

Project ID: L18AC00202 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $16,466 Total Funding: $16,466 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA PNW CESU COOPERATIVE RESEARCH

Project ID: L16AC00349 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,000 Total Funding: $36,343 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA PNW CESU Cooperative Research

Project ID: L16AC00346 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $158,000 Total Funding: $370,100 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: SMC Coop Research PFC 2016 Research A. Objective(s): Understand better management of forested lands in western Oregon. B. Public Benefit(s) • Better understanding of forest management on the O&C revested railroad lands. • Improvement of the commercial value of forest biomass (that otherwise…

BLM OR/WA PNW CESU Cooperative Research Oregon State University Cooperative Science

Project ID: L16AC00348 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $200,000 Total Funding: $618,269 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: OSU NWTIC Research; CIPS Research; VMRC Research; HSC Research; Swiss Needle cast Coop Research; PNW Tree Improvement Research Coop. These applied science cooperatives at Oregon State University provide research products critical for the BLM forestry program in western Oregon. For example, one of…

BLM OR/WA PNW CESU Managing Understories for Climate Change

Project ID: L15AC00009 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $100,000 Total Funding: $147,025 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The objective of this project is to utilize a trait-based approach to study interactions between overstory density, disturbance and future climate change conditions on: 1. Native early-seral plant communities, which are considered rare under current forest management scenarios and have the potential for…

BLM OR/WA Pollinators, Western Oregon

Project ID: L16AC00229 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $320,000 Total Funding: $320,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Address the knowledge gaps related to the recovery of pollinator populations following wildfire by developing a study plan to monitor pollinator populations in post-fire areas within Western Oregon as landscapes recover post fire.

BLM OR/WA Rare Care: Rare Care Plant Conservation Citizen Science Project

Project ID: L19AC00003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,000 Total Funding: $48,588 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA Snag Creation Effectiveness Monitoring

Project ID: L19AC00030 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $100,000 Total Funding: $200,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Objective(s): The BLM has been creating snags under the Northwest Forest Plan since 1997 to provide wildlife habitat that is lacking because of extensive timber harvest. Under the 2016 Range Management Plan, the BLM will create large numbers of snags to benefit wildlife….

BLM OR/WA Using Applied Science to Identify Best Practices in Sagebrush Ecosystems

Project ID: L18AC00182 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $49,992 Total Funding: $49,992 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA Watershed Assessment Model Development

Project ID: L17AC00194 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $157,908 Total Funding: $157,908 [project-data-part-2]

BLM OR/WA Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (YHONA) Seabird Study

Project ID: L17AC00276 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $25,000 Total Funding: $25,000 [project-data-part-2]