BLM AZ, Wildlife Connectivity Planning in the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM)
Posted by Bureau of Land Management
Opportunity snapshot. This Grants.gov announcement — BLM AZ, Wildlife Connectivity Planning in the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM) — is cataloged under number L14AS00107 and tied to CFDA assistance listing 15.231, posted by Bureau of Land Management. Grants.gov currently shows the opportunity as open, first posted on May 9, 2014. The funding category is Discretionary, delivered as a cooperative agreement.
Award economics. The award range on file is $15,000 -- $150,000. The agency has projected $150,000 in total estimated funding for this announcement. It expects to issue 1 award. If the agency funds the expected 1 award from the $150,000 estimated pool, the average award works out to roughly $150,000. Cost sharing is not required, so applicants do not need to commit matching funds to be competitive on this opportunity. Federal award ranges are often upper bounds; actual allocations reflect program appropriations, the strength of the applicant pool, and the evaluation committee's scoring.
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Award Range
$15,000 -- $150,000
Close Date
Not specified
The electronic submission into Grants.gov is due 20 June 2014@ 17:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. A proposal received after the closing date and time will not be considered for award.
Posted
May 9, 2014
Est. Total Funding
$150,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
Project Objective: The principle purpose of this project is to facilitate public education on wildlife resources, provide better wildlife habitat data, and improve local and regional land use planning efforts. The objective of this agreement is to validate the use of Geographic Information System derived wildlife movement corridors used in local and regional land use planning by federal, state, and local governments, thus facilitating better-informed land use planning. Habitat fragmentation and the loss of important wildlife corridors are among the greatest threats to wildlife today. Wildlife corridors connecting the Sonoran Desert National Monument (SDNM) with nearby wilderness [all National Lands Conservation Strategy (NLCS) lands] areas are currently being bisected and fragmented. This is largely due to their close proximity to the Phoenix metropolitan area. Models have been developed and adopted by land management agencies to identify these wildlife corridors in order to maintain and protect them from the influences of human development. These models currently lack complete validation which could provide a scientific foundation for decision-making in the future. The requested funding will be used to support the deployment of additional satellite-GPS collars on mountain lions in the SDNM and/or surrounding mountain ranges. Funding will also support the analysis and presentation of study data in the form of reports and presentations to stakeholders involved with regional connectivity planning. Overall, this project will attempt to validate projected wildlife movement corridors, and supports the preservation of the ecological resources that were, in part, responsible for these areas¿ designation as a National Monument in 2001.
Eligibility
99
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
Fish and Wildlife Service Research Grants
U.S. Department of the Interior
Agency Contact
Eddie W Bell Jr, Grants Management Officer, 602-417-9268<br/>ebell@blm.gov<br/>
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