BLM-Alaska, Assessment, Inventory and Monitoring (AIM) Project

The BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring Strategy (AIM Strategy) is a nationwide effort for integrated, cross-program assessment, inventory, and monitoring of renewable resources (e.g., vegetation, soils, water, air, and wildlife habitat) at multiple scales of management. Further, the Strategy provides a process for the BLM to collect quantitative information on the status, condition, trend, amount, location, and spatial pattern of natural resources on public lands throw out Alaska using a set of core indicators, standardized field methods, remote sensing, and a statistically valid study design.

This financial assistance opportunity is also open to all partners under any Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement, indirect costs are limited to a rate of no more than 17.5% of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner's Federal Agency-approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement (NICRA).

Grants Specialist Betty Conlon (907) 271-2816 bconlon@blm.gov