Bureau of Land Management

Description

The Challenge Cost Share Program was started in 1985 when Congress appropriated funding for partnership conservation projects to benefit wildlife. The CCS program in California provides funding for the following types of wildlife activities and projects: research, monitoring and inventory of wildlife resources;implementation of habitat improvement projects;providing for enhanced recreational experiences relating to wildlife;development and implementation of species conservation and recovery plans; and environmental education. To partner with a CESU California State University at, CSU-Chico to conduct inventories, cultural resource recordation, prepare inventory reports, cultural resource restoration, develop and recommend cultural resource protection measures, and provide analysis for BLM collections currently housed at the Nevada State museum and other Museum¿s. One such collection results from an excavation project carried out in the early 1950s in which includes human bone. The collection is currently housed at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City, Nevada. Two Tribal Groups have indicated an interest in submitting a Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act application to repatriate the entire collection which includes human bone.

Who can apply

• Public and State controlled institutions of higher education

Contact

Leona B Parker, GMO, 530-252-5338<br/>lparker@blm.gov<br/>
lparker@blm.gov