Opportunity Information: Apply for L18AS00015
The "BLM OR/WA Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands" grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number L18AS00015) is a discretionary Bureau of Land Management program run through the Department of the Interior that supports youth-focused conservation work on BLM-managed public lands in Oregon and Washington. The award is offered as a cooperative agreement, meaning recipients should expect an active partnership with BLM staff in planning and carrying out the work rather than operating entirely independently. The overall purpose is to advance priority stewardship, restoration, and rehabilitation projects that protect and improve a wide range of public land resources, while also creating paid, structured opportunities for young people to gain hands-on experience in natural and cultural resource management.
The projects supported under this opportunity are broad in scope but centered on tangible, on-the-ground conservation outcomes. BLM describes eligible work as projects involving natural resources as well as cultural, historical, archaeological, recreational, and scenic resource conservation. In practice, that can include restoring degraded habitats, rehabilitating impacted areas, improving visitor-use sites, addressing erosion or resource damage, supporting trail or recreation area improvements, and helping conserve culturally or historically significant places. A core theme is that the work is not just about completing a project task list; it is also about exposing participants to the real-world complexity of managing public lands, including the tradeoffs and challenges land managers face when balancing conservation, recreation, cultural resource protection, and other public uses.
A central feature of the opportunity is workforce development through conservation service. BLM emphasizes that these youth agreements have been used for roughly two decades to provide participants with an avenue into employment and career exploration in conservation and public lands fields. The intent is to give young people practical job experience, field skills, and familiarity with public land stewardship, while encouraging continued interest in BLM-related career paths. The agency also highlights a workforce diversification goal, using youth programs as a pathway to broaden participation in public land management and to engage individuals who may not otherwise have exposure to these careers.
From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity sits within the Natural Resources funding activity category (CFDA 15.243). Eligibility is listed as unrestricted, meaning it is broadly open to many applicant types, subject to any additional eligibility clarifications that may appear in the full notice. The opportunity was created May 2, 2018, with an original closing date of May 5, 2019. BLM anticipated making about 21 awards under this announcement, with an award ceiling listed at $2,251,761. Overall, the program is designed to pair conservation outcomes on public lands with structured youth employment and training, using cooperative agreements to ensure close coordination between the recipient organizations and BLM field and state offices in Oregon and Washington.Apply for L18AS00015
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM OR/WA Youth Conservation Opportunities on Public Lands" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.243.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 02, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 05, 2019. (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 $2,251,761.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 21 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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