Funding Opportunity Number: L14AS00118
Opportunity Category: Discretionary
Funding Instrument Type: Cooperative Agreement
Category of Funding Activity: Environment
Eligible Applicants: Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Agency Name: DOI-BLM
Closing Date: 2014-06-10
Award Ceiling: $70,000
Expected Number of Awards: 1

Description: The project objective is to foster communication and collaboration between the BLM and the WILD Foundation to ensure conservation, management and recovery of North American Wilderness and protected areas, contribute to conserving the ecosystem integrity of wilderness and protected areas; help stakeholders achieve effective, efficient, and mutually beneficial wilderness and protected areas conservation in North America; and foster continental-scale public relevance of management, conservation, and sustainable use of wilderness and protected areas.  The project objective is also to disseminate information about Wilderness to the public via the International Journal of Wilderness, including research findings, planning and management techniques, and use of the world's Wilderness resource.  Recipients of the journal include individual citizens, non-government organizations, wilderness visitors and federal agencies, including but not limited to BLM.  The Journal is disseminated by the WILD Foundation.
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