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BLM has an opportunity to work with a partner organization to assist BLM with The Seabird Colony Enhancement Project of the Torch Platform Irene Oil Spill Trustee Council to reduce human disturbance to seabirds at their colonies and roost sites. This objective relies on media such as signs, buoys, interpretive panels, posters, brochures and a program of directed public contact designed to educate stewards, users, and visitors of the Central California Coast from southern Monterey County to Ventura County about the presence of nesting and roosting seabirds and the significant ways that people can protect seabirds.

The North Coast Seabird Protection Network (NCSPN) is one of a series of projects funded by the Kure/Stuyvesant Restoration Fund. On November 5, 1997 M/V Kure released 4,500 gallons of oil into Humboldt Bay resulting from a fuel tank puncture on a Louisiana Pacific dock piling near Samoa, California. On September 6, 1999, the dredge M-V Stuyvesant spilled approximately 2,100 gallons of oil into the Pacific Ocean near the mouth of Humboldt Bay, near Eureka, California. Strong winds after the discharge event spread the oil nearly 15 miles offshore and north to Patrickâ¿¿s Point near Trinidad. The spills affected coastal beaches and wildlife along the Humboldt County coast. Wildlife response efforts collected and documented the injured and dead wildlife, including seabirds that were affected by the spills between Humboldt Bay and Trinidad.

The Black Duck Joint Venture (BDJV) is a partnership-based program under the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) that promotes the conservation of black ducks by providing scientific information to support effective conservation and management. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS, or Service), a partner in the BDJV, administers financial assistance awards (grants and cooperative agreements), purchase orders, and contracts on a competitive basis for projects and studies that advance both our and the general scientific community¿s understanding of black duck ecology and is seeking proposals from interested parties. The BDJV will a accept proposals addressing any aspect of black duck ecology and management, but proposals that address priority research needs (see below) will have a greater probability of funding.

Through this proposed undertaking BLM is looking to foster a cooperative partnership with parties that have an interest in activities aimed at protection of greater sage-grouse habitats and populations through specifically delineating and managing for protection throughout the different seasonal habitats of the grouse.

he proposed undertaking will provide conduct studies to address biological and management questions regarding Greater sage-grouse populations within the area of the Lander WY Field Office.

The principal purpose of the proposed undertaking is studying and assessing factors related to the suitability of sage-grouse habitat, including factors influencing functional connectivity, seasonal movement and population dynamics of greater sage-grouse within sagebrush focal areas and priority habitat management areas on public lands within the area of Wyomingâ¿¿s BLM Rock Springs Field Office.

The Standard Grants Program is a competitive, matching grants program that supports public-private partnerships carrying out projects in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. These projects must involve long-term protection, restoration, and/or enhancement of wetlands and associated uplands habitats. In Mexico, projects may also include technical training, environmental education and outreach, organizational infrastructure development, and sustainable-use studies.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Western Golden Eagle Team is funding research to provide scientifically defensible spatial products and conservation strategies to support conservation and management efforts of Golden Eagles. The highest priority is to develop species distributional models at the scale of CEC Level III Ecoregions during all parts of the golden eagleâ¿¿s annual cycle, for which the breeding season is of particular importance. Also of high priority is the need to evaluate the spatial distribution of a variety of potential risks to golden eagles to identify where risks can be most efficiently avoided. The Western Golden Eagle Team proposes to partner with scientists at Humboldt State University (HSU) to develop predictive models of Golden Eagle breeding habitat in the western United States, and to evaluate the ability of these models to support estimation of population distribution and abundance.