Closed · F18AS00339 · CFDA 15.662 · Discretionary
Landscape Conservation Design for the Lower St. Louis River
Federal grant opportunity posted by Fish and Wildlife Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $325K-$328K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- September 14, 2018
- Close date
- 1
- Expected awards
The verdict
Landscape Conservation Design for the Lower St. Louis River is a closed discretionary listing from Fish and Wildlife Service that offered $325,000 -- $328,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 4,242 other opportunities from Fish and Wildlife Service.
- $325K-$328K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 1
- expected award
- 15.662
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Landscape Conservation Design for the Lower S… is closed (last close September 14, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Fish and Wildlife Service still indexes 4,242 other opportunities here.
According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.
Deadline tracker
Application window closed
Closed September 14, 2018
Est. Total Funding
$328,000
Expected Awards
1
Instrument
Cooperative Agreement
Description
This project is developing a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) approach for the Western Lake Superior region of the Great Lakes, building from an initial focus on the Lower St. Louis River. The LCD will create a decision-making framework in which local communities, working with tribal, State, and federal agencies responsible for managing natural resources, can develop a shared vision for utilization and conservation of those resources, coordinate land use and protection implementation strategies, and apply common metrics to measure and track success. The LCD is intended to align efforts to enhance complementary land-based themes of community health, economic development, and ecological integrity in the project area - where the Great Lakes begin. The overall goal of the project is to support long-term conservation of fish and wildlife resources of the Lower St. Louis River and Western Lake Superior. This 3-year project will establish the LCD framework, coordinate and facilitate the necessary representative working groups, evaluate existing spatial-based land use and conservation plans, develop land use decision-support tools and associated metrics, and recommend additional data and information collection to assess targeted outcomes of enhanced community health, economic development, and ecological integrity. The USFWS is utilizing the Minnesota Land Trust to support LCD project management through local coordination and facilitation with local agencies, organizations, and stakeholders influencing land use decisions. This is a notice of intent to award a single source cooperative agreement to the Minnesota Land Trust (MLT - Duluth, MN) without competition under justification 505DM 2.14.B.4. Competition for the award is not practical due to the unique expertise and experience that the MLT has in the coordination and facilitation of local partnerships in the Lower St. Louis River area. The USFWS requires this expertise and experience to help the USFWS and project partners design and implement a Landscape Conservation Design for land use decision-making.
Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · F18AS00339
Grants.gov marks Landscape Conservation Design for the Lower S… with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity codes span Environment · Natural Resources · Science and Technology / R&D (ENV;NR;ST). 939 other Fish and Wildlife Service listings share this eligibility-code string (22% of 4,243).
- Code 25
- Others (see official listing text)
Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Agency Contact
Pete Fasbender 952-252-0092 Ext. 210 peter_fasbender@fws.gov
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