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The Center for Invasive Plant Management no longer offers CWMA grants; however, we hope that the CWMA Grants program will resume in the future.
Supporting new and applied research, and distilling and disseminating research results to land managers and landowners, is critical in developing scientifically sound invasive plant management practices. Through our unique, small-grants program (2001-2007), we have provided research funding for the collection and analysis of ecological data to better understand the prevention, introduction, spread, management, and ecology of invasive plants.
Specific objectives of our research grants program have been to:
- support projects that provide the foundation for new approaches to invasive plant management
- document the impact of invasive plant species on ecosystem function
- develop and test new decision-making tools
- synthesize and communicate research results to improve on-the-ground land management
For six years (2001-07), our grants program has become increasingly competitive and has continued to attract high-quality projects. Proposals have been accepted in three categories: |
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- Seed Money
- Improving Invasive Plant Management Decision Making
- Information Synthesis and Assessment
Seed Money grants have been the most popular granting program, by far. Feedback on this program consistently cites it as a unique and exceptional opportunity to initiate research in innovative directions and assist beginning researchers with developing their programs. These grants have been successfully used as springboards for more intensive, follow-up research and have been instrumental in securing long-term funding for several western invasive plant management projects. Between 2001 and 2007, we awarded 76 research grants totaling more than $650,000 to scientists in 22 states. It is our goal to reinstate this much-needed and highly-successful program in 2009. 
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CIPM Research Grant Awards
Rapport with Research
This series features summaries of projects conducted by recipients of research grants awarded
Grant Resources
Feedback from Grant Recipients
“The seed grant we received made possible a major part of my PhD work, so we could say how helpful CIPM was in getting a new invasive plant ecologist trained up!” — Josh Caplan, Portland State University
“We have taken this idea (integrating biological control with herbicides) and applied it to another serious invasive plant, Dalmatian toadflax. We will apply everything we have learned from the Canada thistle project as we go forward with this new research project. We are very grateful to CIPM for providing the seed money for the initial idea.” — Dr. Sephen Enloe, University of Wyoming
“The benefits of this seed grant were enormous in terms of obtaining additional collaborators to accomplish the long-term goals of this project. Without the seed money, we would not have been able to conduct the initial genetic work to obtain the preliminary data necessary to inform the next part of our project.” — Dr. Noel B Pavlovic and Stacey Leicht Young, Great Lakes Science Center, USGS Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station
“. . . it was the pilot project that CIPM funded that enabled Duncan Knowler, Sarah Reichard, Joanne Burgess and me to collaborate on the PREISM (USDA Program on the Economics of Invasive Species Management) proposal (which was successful in obtaining a two year, $207,000 grant). We are not only grateful for your support but also that it has led to a successful outcome as CIPM intended.” — Ed Barbier, University of Wyoming
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