Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund

Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund

For Implementing State Wildlife Action Plans

With generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Wildlife Conservation Society continues its highly successful Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund grants program. This program makes funding available to nonprofit conservation organizations and state wildlife agencies working to implement priority conservation activities set forth by the State Wildlife Action Plans.

September 2009 – WCS announces 2009 Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund grant awards

The Wildlife Conservation Society is pleased to announce that it has awarded 22 new grants totaling $1.6 million (64 grants for $5.1 million over the three-year program) to a variety of local, regional, and national nonprofit conservation organizations and state wildlife agencies for projects that implement priority conservation activities outlined by the State Wildlife Action Plans.

For more information of this year's grantmaking process and program priorities, you can download the Request For Proposals (RFP) document by clicking the link below. We anticipate a new RFP for next year's round of grant making in late February 2010. Stay tuned...

Download the 2009 RFP (PDF Version 148 KB)

To read the official news release from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation visit:
http://www.ddcf.org/page.asp?pageId=680

For more information on State Wildlife Action Plans please visit:
http://wildlifeactionplans.org/

For questions regarding the WCS Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund program please contact Darren Long at 406-556-7203 or dlong@wcs.org.

Fact Sheet – Grants 2009 (PDF version 1.7MB)
Fact Sheet -- Grants 2007 (PDF version 158KB)
Fact Sheet -- Grants 2006 (PDF version 39KB)

Grant Information and Maps
List of Funded Projects
Contact Information

ABOUT THE WILDLIFE ACTION OPPORTUNITIES FUND
The Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund provides competitive grants to conservation organizations that are focused on implementing priority actions and strategies identified in State Wildlife Action Plans. Funds to support this program were provided by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, which works to accelerate conservation of wildlife habitat through implementation of the Wildlife Action Plans. During the first three years of its funding cycle, the Wildlife Conservation Society has awarded 64 grants for over $5.1 million to a variety of local, regional, and national nonprofit conservation organizations for projects that strive to implement priority conservation activities outlined by the State Wildlife Action Plans. By providing support to a broad swath of organizations and conservation projects, the Wildlife Conservation Society hopes to leverage new and existing partnerships that catalyze implementation and further the conservation goals of the Wildlife Action Plans in all 50 states and 6 U.S. territories. With ever increasing encroachment of commercial, residential and energy development into critical wildlife habitat, the State Wildlife Action Plans provide a comprehensive road map for coordinated efforts in support of protecting important habitats for all wildlife species.

ABOUT STATE WILDLIFE ACTION PLANS
State Wildlife Action Plans outline the steps that are needed to conserve wildlife and habitat before they become more rare and more costly to protect. Taken as a whole, they present a national action agenda for preventing wildlife from becoming endangered. In order to receive funds through the Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Program and the State Wildlife Grants Program, Congress charged each state and territory with developing a wildlife action plan. These proactive plans, known technically as “comprehensive wildlife conservation strategies,” assess the condition of each state’s wildlife and habitats, identify the problems they face, and outline the actions that are needed to be conserve them over the long term. More information on State Wildlife Action Plans is available at: http://wildlifeactionplans.org/

GOALS OF THE WILDLIFE ACTION OPPORTUNITIES FUND

• Grants to promote the resilience of wildlife to climate change through collaborative projects with state wildlife agencies and nonprofit organizations
• Grants to help publicize and raise the profile of State Wildlife Action Plans to the general public, conservation organizations, interested parties, and policy makers
• Grants to help integrate State Wildlife Action Plan priorities with other land use planning efforts at the local, state or federal level
• Grants aimed towards creating changes in natural resource policy at the local, state, or federal government level that support implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans
• Grants for wildlife habitat restoration or reintroduction and management of priority species
• Grants to promote habitat connectivity for wildlife prioritized by State Wildlife Action Plans

ACHIEVEMENTS

• Grants to 64 projects implementing conservation priorities of State Wildlife Action Plans
• Funding the implementation of State Wildlife Action Plan priorities in 45 states
• Provided matching grant funds that helped to leverage an additional $10.5 million in both public and private support for State Wildlife Action Plan implementation
• Catalyzed new partnerships and increased communication between nonprofit conservation organizations and state wildlife agencies
• Increased interest and awareness of State Wildlife Action Plan priorities within the nonprofit conservation community

Grant Information and Maps

The Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund strived to diversify its grantmaking by both geography and project type in an effort to both create enthusiasm among the nonprofit community, strengthen and create new partnerships between state wildlife agencies and nonprofit conservation organizations, and to experiment with a variety of methodologies and tactics for moving forward the objectives of the State Wildlife Action Plans nationally.

Over the first three years since its inception the Wildlife Action Opportunities Fund has awarded 64 grants for over $5.1 million to a wide variety of local, regional, and national nonprofit conservation organizations, land trusts, multi-stakeholder alliances, sportsmen’s groups, and state wildlife agencies that impact wildlife conservation in 45 states. This grant portfolio supports a broad swath of projects under the auspices of the State Wildlife Action Plans; including habitat restoration and species reintroduction activities, conservation planning and improvement of State Wildlife Action Plans, communications to raise the profile of State Plans, policy change efforts to facilitate Plan implementation, and novel efforts to redefine the landscape for wildlife adaptation in the face of climate change.

Geographic Distribution of Applications and Grants

The maps below illustrate the geographic distribution of all applications received and grants awarded through the 2006-2009 grant cycles.

Grant Statistics

2009 STATISTICS
260 proposals received for wildlife conservation action in 50 states and 1 U.S. territory
187 unique applicant organizations
$28,261,116 in total funding requests

2007 STATISTICS
201 proposals received for wildlife conservation action in 49 states and 1 U.S. territory
159 unique applicant organizations
$17,348,760 in total funding requests

2006 STATISTICS
531 proposals received for wildlife conservation action in 50 states and 3 U.S. territories
351 unique applicant organizations
$45,503,198 in total funding requests

FUNDING TO DATE
Total Grants – 64 projects; $5,179,933
Grant sizes ranging from $20,780 to $200,000

List of Funded Projects

By Geographic Region: West, Midwest, Northeast, South, and Multi-Regional)

LIST OF GRANTS

West

Pacific Northwest

American Bird Conservancy - $132,000 to conduct outreach and habitat management and restoration activities to support the project Conservation of Cavity-Nesting Bird Species on Ponderosa Pine Family Forests in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Conservation Northwest - $95,000 to reintroduce the Pacific fisher to the Olympic Peninsula and initiate fisher recovery in Washington State by reestablishing fisher populations in Olympic National Park, Olympic National Forest and other suitable habitats.

Conservation Northwest - $29,000 to capture, house, medically certify, and prepare for transport Pacific fishers for reintroduction to Washington’s Olympic National Park in the fall and winter of 2009-2010, train and supply citizen volunteers to assist in fisher monitoring and research, and contribute to public outreach efforts.

Defenders of Wildlife - $65,000 for creation of a statewide forum to facilitate best practices/guidelines in designing and implementing wildlife connectivity plans and develop a model regional connectivity design approach and one linkage design in California’s San Joaquin Valley and foothills.

The Nature Conservancy - Oregon Chapter - $194,385 to develop a collaborative, science-based vision of desired future conditions and wildlife habitat values in each of five landscapes, totaling over 4 million acres in Oregon and Washington; drafting a priority treatment plan at each of the five sites, communication of a collaborative vision and maps to public and private land managers, and beginning implementation of one demonstration project at each landscape.

The Nature Conservancy - Washington Chapter - $56,115 to support the Glacial Heritage Demonstration Project implementing direct restoration actions to prepare grassland habitat for the reintroduction of extirpated Species of Greatest Conservation Need as outlined in Washington’s Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy.

Trout Unlimited - $90,000 for the Water and Wine Project; a comprehensive new initiative to restore streams and enhance stream flows in California’s Wine Country through partnerships between Trout Unlimited and the wine industry.

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife - $95,760 for the translocation and reintroduction of two Species of Greatest Conservation Need, the western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus) and the Mazama pocket gopher (Thomomys mazama), that historically have occupied western Washington prairies and oak woodlands.

Mountain West

Center for Native Ecosystems - $148,738 to improve wildlife resilience to climate change and habitat fragmentation by 1) updating Colorado’s SWAP to incorporate data on wildlife movement corridors and climate change, and 2) expanding implementation of Colorado’s SWAP by integrating it into several key statewide and regional planning processes.

Five Valleys Land Trust - $40,000 to develop a coordinated delivery mechanism for the habitat conservation and restoration components of Montana’s Comprehensive Fish and Wildlife Conservation Strategy and lay the foundation for new programs and funding to advance the goals of the State Wildlife Action Plan.

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks - $50,000 for the Crucial Areas and Connectivity Assessment, which will assess fish and wildlife habitat and connectivity, determine land use planning and energy development risks, define management guidelines and integrate the Assessment through policy development, outreach and updates to Montana’s State Wildlife Action Plan.

The Four Corners Institute - $36,000 to work with the State of New Mexico and other conservation partners to release 30 otters into the Upper Rio Grande and Gila Rivers, and develop a long-term otter population management and monitoring plan for the state.

The Nature Conservancy – Utah chapter - $50,000 to help enhance Utah’s Wildlife Action Plan to where it serves as a strategic guide for planning and action by all land and resource management agencies, non-profit organizations and private groups with a stake in conserving Utah’s wildlife or their habitats.

The Sonoran Institute - $75,000 to protect fish and wildlife habitat in Montana from the impacts of unplanned growth by providing wildlife managers, elected officials and rural landowners with the training, tools and assistance needed to effectively manage rural development to conserve ecologically important private lands.

Trout Unlimited - $38,000 to improve stream flows crucial to restoration of arctic grayling in Montana’s upper Big Hole River basin by advancing water management strategies and water right transactions.

World Wildlife Fund - $65,000 for prairie dog restoration and conservation work in north central Montana within one of the primary focal areas for prairie dog conservation identified by the Montana State Fish, Wildlife, and Parks with the intent of increasing habitat important to three of Montana’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need: black-footed ferrets, mountain plovers, and burrowing owls.

Southwest

Grand Canyon Trust - $110,000 to rehabilitate and restore wildlife habitat on Arizona’s Kaibab Plateau.

Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project - $55,000 to help align transportation projects with State Wildlife Action Plans in both Colorado and New Mexico by developing GIS data and maps, designing an early warning system and ensuring wildlife collision mitigation measures are placed in effective locations.

The Nature Conservancy – New Mexico chapter - $75,000 to conduct a climate change vulnerability analysis for New Mexico that will (1) assess and map current and projected effects of climate change on habitats and species of conservation concern; and (2) identify pragmatic adaptation strategies for natural resource managers.

Midwest

Great Lakes

Indiana Wildlife Federation - $35,000 to educate landowners about Indiana’s Comprehensive Wildlife Strategy and offer education and assistance to landowners for habitat restoration and protection, as well as provide incentives for those whose lands do not qualify for other programs.

Michigan United Conservation Clubs - $93,455 to forward the implementation of Michigan’s Wildlife Action Plan through the expansion of a statewide, broad-based coalition of organizations, combined with an outreach program geared toward the general public and involving hands-on habitat projects.

Pheasants Forever - $50,000 to help implement the Habitat Wheel Initiative, which will create grassland habitat on a landscape scale using incentives provided by state, federal and private programs supporting the priorities of the Illinois State Wildlife Action Plan.

The Prairie Enthusiasts, Inc. - $200,000 for outreach and education programs around the 50,000 acre Military Ridge Prairie Heritage Area; to inform landowners, local communities, and government officials about Species of Greatest Conservation Need, habitat requirements, and Wisconsin’s State Wildlife Action Plan in collaboration with a multi-partner on-the-ground conservation project to increase and improve habitat for 27 Species of Greatest Conservation Need dependant upon grassland and savanna ecosystems.

Great Plains

Bridging the Gap - Kansas City Wildlands - $61,700 to convene partners and stakeholders to develop a Conservation Opportunity Area (COA) action plan in the Kansas City area in accordance with the Missouri Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy and to implement conservation actions identified in the plan.

National Wild Turkey Federation - $35,500 to provide technical assistance and cost-share funding to private landowners in the Bur Oak Ridge and Waubonsie Special Landscape Areas of the Loess Hills of western Iowa to restore 150 acres of historic oak savanna habitat and to initiate an education program which promotes savanna restoration.

Ozark Regional Land Trust - $21,000 to support landowner outreach for securing conservation easements in karst areas of southwest Missouri that contain the federally threatened Ozark cavefish and seven other Missouri Species of Conservation Concern.

Platte River Basin Environments - $100,000 to conserve and manage Nebraska’s critical Wildcat Hills habitats on both conservation-owned and private lands through partnerships and with support of local landowners and communities.

Northeast

New England

American Rivers - $100,000 to work with a diversity of committed partners seeking to restore multiple aquatic species, including two state listed species in the North Branch of the Hoosic River’s headwaters through removal of the Briggsville Dam in Clarksburg, Massachusetts.

Audubon Vermont - $72,000 to support the Forests, Wildlife and Communities Project which address the threats of fragmentation and habitat loss to a large number of Vermont’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need by providing technical assistance and outreach to landowners, planners, municipalities and residents on public and private land.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $199,520 to assist Massachusetts wildlife agencies to ensure that strategies in the Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Plan are adapted for climate change impacts, and that these climate-adapted strategies are adopted for implementation by the state agency and its implementation partners.

The Nature Conservancy – New Hampshire chapter - $193,451 to maintain, enhance, and restore habitat connectivity for wildlife Species of Greatest Conservation Need in six key linkages across four states of the Northern Appalachian Ecoregion (ME, NH,NY,VT) in order to mitigate the impacts of habitat fragmentation and climate change.

Wildlife Management Institute - $198,000 to improve the quantity, quality and conservation status of both shrubland and grassland habitats in six northeastern states (CT, MA, RI, NY, NH, VT) through a collaborative, multi-partner habitat restoration initiative.

Vermont Natural Resources Council - $64,000 to prioritize north-south wildlife crossing areas in Vermont using historical and new road ecology science with wildlife passage techniques to fulfill State Wildlife Action Plan priorities to improve wildlife mobility and ability to survive a changing climate, as well as conducting mitigation work focusing on identifying priority road crossing areas in need of land conservation.

Vermont Wildlife Partnership - $75,000 c/o the Northern Forest Alliance; to build a diverse coalition of fish and wildlife stakeholder groups that works in partnership with citizens, local officials, non-traditional allies, and state legislators to redirect 1/8 of 1% of Vermont’s state sales tax to the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department to support timely, comprehensive implementation of the Vermont Wildlife Action Plan.

South

South Atlantic

Atlanta Botanical Garden - $65,299 to help restore and safeguard critically endangered mountain bog habitats in Northeast Georgia and restore their keystone species.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources - $94,800 for the Nongame Conservation Section to expand its habitat restoration activities as outlined in the State Wildlife Action Plan by hiring a seasonal fire crew dedicated to carrying out prescribed fire across Georgia. The team will focus on high priority conservation properties that support rare species.

Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy - $42,900 to partner with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Division of Forestry and Volusia County to implement on-the-ground management and prescribed fire to restore and enhance 10,000 acres of upland habitat within five focal properties.

East South Central

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission - $200,000 to integrate North Carolina Wildlife Action Plan priorities into local land use planning through implementation of the Green Growth Toolbox.

Open Space Institute - $76,000 to develop a comprehensive GIS-based assessment of critical SWAP priority land protection targets that illustrate ecological system connectivity and associated wildlife habitat corridors within the greater Southern Appalachian region (AL,GA,TN,NC,SC KY,VA).

Quail Unlimited - $100,000 to initiate self-sufficient Habitat Management Teams that focus on early successional restoration and management practices in priority conservation areas as defined in Kentucky’s Wildlife Action Plan.

Southeast Watershed Forum - $58,295 to work with local city-county leaders, resource organizations and TWRA staff in three TN communities to integrate specific protection strategies in their comprehensive plans to preserve priority habitat identified in the TN SWAP and shape growth away from natural resources that will provide long term economic & environmental benefits.

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy - $20,780 to create an accessible and secure GIS-based toolkit for the globally significant Roan Mountain Massif, which will enable the integration of State Wildlife Action Plan data into local government land use planning decisions in 3 counties in North Carolina and Tennessee.

Triangle Land Conservancy - $25,000 for the Chatham County, North Carolina Comprehensive Conservation Plan, which will develop a model process for assembling and synthesizing conservation information for interpretation and public use in local, regional and statewide decision making. The project will map State Wildlife Action Plan priority habitats and species for Chatham County on a on a landscape level scale, which can be used in decisions regarding land protection or development review.

West South Central

National Wild Turkey Federation - $60,087 to support a longleaf pine understory ecosystem restoration initiative for private landowners in Louisiana; providing cost-sharing opportunities and publicizing the importance and value of longleaf pine restoration.

Multi-Regional

Intermountain West Joint Venture - $84,000 to assist 11 western state wildlife agencies (ID,NV,UT,AZ,CA,CO,MT,NM,OR,WA,WY) with implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans, with emphasis on avian Species of Greatest Conservation Need, by building partnerships around the Plan priorities to leverage Farm Bill and other existing federal funding for habitat protection.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $92,800 for a project to support State Wildlife Action Plan priority conservation actions in sixteen states designed to position agencies for proactive management of energy development activities to protect wildlife and habitats.

Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences - $96,000 to assist 13 northeastern states (ME,NH, VT,NY,MA,RI,CT,NJ,PA,DE,MD,DC,VA,WV) and the District of Columbia in the management of utility corridors to 1) promote connection of renewable energy projects to the grid, 2) safeguard against impacts to species/habitats, 3) promote habitat for corridor specialists, and 4) facilitate species movement in the face of climate change.

National Wildlife Federation - $200,000 for NWF and affiliates to work in three pilot states (FL, VA, and WA) to help state wildlife agencies become leaders on climate change adaptation using State Wildlife Action Plans as a framework and, nationally, to help ensure that policy makers and natural resource managers support climate change adaptation.

National Wildlife Federation - $96,955 for NWF and its affiliates to work in three states (MI, TX, and VT) to facilitate communications between state wildlife agencies, non-profits and other stakeholders to implement conservation priorities State Wildlife Action Plans and also to conduct targeted outreach on the success of partnerships between state wildlife agencies and non-profits around the country to implement State Wildlife Action Plans.

National Wildlife Refuge Association - $150,000 for the Beyond Refuge Boundaries – Implementing State Wildlife Action Plans Project, that will conserve key habitats near National Wildlife Refuges in two geographically diverse landscapes; the Delmarva Peninsula (VA, MD and DE), the Rock River watershed (WI); to protect habitat, to facilitate coordination between partners, to address habitat fragmentation by creating wildlife corridors, to integrate State Wildlife Action Plans and Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plans.

Playa Lakes Joint Venture - $92,550 for policy work and engagement with national and state level personnel at the USDA Farm Service Agency and Natural Resource Conservation Service to increase Farm Bill program applicability for playa and aquifer conservation in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas.

Playa Lakes Joint Venture - $79,138 to develop a regionally consistent wind farm siting framework in the plains areas of six states (CO,NM,TX,NE,OK,KS) that will guide stakeholders and developers in scoping, evaluating and mitigating wind farms relative to SWAP wildlife priorities.

WCS Field Projects

Greater Yellowstone Wolverine Project – Evaluating the Impact of Increasing Human Activities in Alpine Habitats - $25,000 for a workshop to disseminate recent research results to USFWS and other agency personnel and provide adequate information ahead of reviewing the wolverine, a Species of Greatest Conservation Need, for federal listing status. The project team is also working with Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming Fish and Game agencies; Beaverhead-Deerlodge, Caribou-Targhee, and Gallatin National Forests; and Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in developing wildlife management plans to ensure continued survival of the wolverine based on most recent available science.

Conservation of Migratory Birds in western Arctic Alaska - $25,000 to create changes in federal land management policy that will provide long-term conservation for the wildlife resources in the Teshekpuk Lake region. Another product of this grant will be a scientifically defensible conservation plan for the region that has support from a broad base of constituencies including to the extent possible conservation organizations, North Slope Borough, AK Dept. Fish and Game, and the BLM, USFWS, and USGS.

Guiding Rural Residential Development to Ensure Compatibility with Wildlife Conservation in the Adirondack Park - $35,000 to address conservation priorities relevant to sprawl and resulting habitat loss and fragmentation set forth in the New York State Wildlife Action Plan. Specific priorities in the plan were used as our goals for this project 1) provide information about negative effects of human disturbance on wildlife; 2) coordinate the diverse array of stakeholder groups that will need to be involved in land use planning for species of greatest conservation need (SGCN); and (3) develop land use planning guidelines for all SGCNs to encourage the incorporation of appropriate conservation measures by land use planners in the Adirondack Park.

Corridors Initiative - Protecting wildlife movement corridors across the High Divide - $30,000
Maps of crucial habitat and wildlife corridors in the High Divide; 2) Idaho and Montana SWAP priorities integrated into USFS national forest service and BLM management plans (listed above) to protect wildlife habitat and corridors; and 3) Idaho and Montana SWAP priorities integrated into county planning regulations (counties listed above) to prevent habitat loss and fragmentation.

A model for community-based forestry - Integrating wildlife conservation into local land use decisions on the California Hoopa Valley Reservation and other important fisher habitat - $30,000
The results of this project will be: 1) policy changes by way of improvements to the Hoopa Tribe’s FMP. The Tribe’s revised FMP will be implemented in 2009 and will be in place for 15 years. The Hoopa Tribe has been a collaborator on the Hoopa fisher project and we are confident our recommendations for changes to Hoopa’s FMP will be adopted; and 2) The field-based workshop will enable Tribal and CA biologists and foresters to more effectively identify critical elements of forest structure for fisher across the over 12.9 million acres of fisher habitat in the Pacific states. The workshop will provide CA biologists and foresters new tools to conserve fisher habitat during the review of the 1,400 timber harvesting plans submitted annually in California.

Policy Change for Wildlife and Residential Development in the Adirondack Park - $31,120
Outcomes include specific language for two documents: 1) an update of the DAP guidance document; 2) a cluster development policy; 3) a set of GIS maps and databases that can be used in project review and will help APA staff to identify sensitive and critical resource areas within the Park; 4) specific recommendations with respect to wildlife conservation and residential development that will be available to local planners at the town/village level as criteria for evaluating proposed developments. A cluster development policy, as well as any changes to the guidelines in the DAP guidance document, will affect all areas under APA jurisdiction within the Adirondack Park, encompassing approximately 3 million acres. Local planners will also be able to use these recommendations for within the 104 towns and villages with the Adirondack Park boundary.

Proactive planning for climate change in fish and wildlife management in Montana - $59,000 to work with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and other conservation partners to identify climate change impacts and implement climate change adaptation strategies in priority terrestrial and aquatic systems in the state.

Building capacity to integrate best practices to reduce habitat fragmentation and maintain wildlife habitat and connectivity in local land-use plans in New York and Montana - $40,000 to leverage existing research and partnerships in New York state to positively impact Species of Greatest Conservation Need through improved local land-use planning. WCS will build networks, enhance outreach, and work with pilot communities to integrate policies that maintain intact habitats and benefit wildlife.

Promoting Resiliency of Stream/Riparian Ecosystems during Climate Change - $30,000 to relocate ‘nuisance’ beavers to suitable sites to promote resiliency of stream/riparian ecosystems during climate change enhanced drought in areas of the Big Hole River watershed in Montana that include habitat for the rare arctic grayling.

Facilitating bison management to conserve grassland habitats and wildlife - $41,000 to coordinate and verify enhancement of 180,000 acres of grassland habitats for wildlife, particularly grassland birds. WCS will work with 30 land managers from MT, ND, SD, and WY to improve grasslands using historic range conditions and bird habitat requirements to guide management activities.

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