$400K BLM grant to Chicago Botanic Garden. (News & Events).

The U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has awarded $400,000 to the Department of Conservation Science and the Institute for Plant Conservation Biology, housed at the Chicago Botanic Garden, for use in conservation efforts. Two separate grants will be used for (1) developing and implementing a conservation internship program to assist BLM with promoting conservation of species-at-risk and managing their habitat on public lands, and (2) investigating genetics of threatened plant species in the Great Basin states of Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Nevada.