Bureau of Land Management

Description

Project Background Information: The projects started in 2007 with the Buckeye Fire. Followed by the Robins Butte (2008) and Powers Fires (2009). This program has primarily been accomplished through the Phoenix District Fire program with cooperation through Arizona Game and Fish. All three fires started out as BAER Burned area emergency rehabilitation projects. The primary objectives are to reduce hazardous fuel accumulations and restore degraded habitat caused by salt cedar infestations along the Gila River. Actions are performed in accordance with the National Fire Plan and the President¿s Healthy Forest Initiative. The actives in this project are a continuation of BLM AZ agreement number L09AC15646. Project Objective: The principle purpose is form a partnership to manage and/or restore wildlife and their habitats on BLM public lands along the Gila River area from the Phoenix metropolitan area, across the Highway 85 bridge west to the Gillespie Dam in Arizona. Specifically, sharing the costs of cooperative projects between the two agencies, including but not limited to cooperative planning, vegetative and physical site restoration, habitat enhancement, habitat maintenance, inventory, monitoring, bio-physical studies, animal re-introductions as well as transplants, public access, cooperative law enforcement, compliance, information and education.

Who can apply

• State governments
• County governments
• Special district governments

Contact

Eddie W Bell Jr, Grants Management Officer, 602-417-9268<br/>ebell@blm.gov<br/>
ebell@blm.gov