Opportunity Information: Apply for L17AS00142
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the U.S. Department of the Interior, offered a discretionary cooperative agreement opportunity titled "BLM-(AZ), Small Mammal Population Study, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument" (Funding Opportunity Number L17AS00142; CFDA 15.231). The project is focused on natural resources research at Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona and is designed to support conservation and recovery planning for the Mexican spotted owl, a federally listed Threatened Species. The core conservation problem driving the work is that Mexican spotted owls face elevated risk from the loss and degradation of nesting and foraging habitat, with pressure coming from human-caused habitat modifications as well as climate-related vegetation changes that can alter habitat structure and ecosystem productivity over time.
The main purpose of the grant is to generate or strengthen scientific understanding of how climate and habitat conditions relate to the abundance, distribution, and stability of the owl's primary prey base. The opportunity is explicitly tied to the revised Mexican spotted owl recovery plan, which calls for research into relationships among climate, habitat characteristics and trends (including vegetation change), and key prey species. In this case, the prey species highlighted are woodrats (genus Neotoma) and white-footed mice (genus Peromyscus), both of which are commonly documented prey items for spotted owls and can be sensitive to shifts in vegetation composition, structure, and productivity. By studying small mammal populations in and around the monument, the project aims to provide information that helps determine whether habitat conditions are stable enough to sustain the prey resources that owl populations depend on, particularly within the Colorado Plateau Ecological Management Unit referenced in the recovery framework.
From a practical standpoint, the opportunity anticipates a single award with an estimated maximum federal funding level (award ceiling) of $125,000 and an expected number of awards of 1. Because the instrument is a cooperative agreement rather than a standard grant, it implies substantial involvement by the federal agency in the project, such as collaboration on study design, coordination with monument management priorities, data needs, field logistics, or integration of findings into ongoing monitoring and recovery planning. Eligibility is listed as "unrestricted," meaning the competition was open to a wide range of applicant types, subject to any further clarifications that would have been provided in the full opportunity notice.
Key administrative details include an original posting/creation date of June 8, 2017, and an original closing date of August 7, 2017. Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a targeted research and monitoring effort meant to fill a specific information gap identified in the Mexican spotted owl recovery plan: understanding how changing environmental conditions influence prey availability and, by extension, the long-term suitability of owl habitat on the Colorado Plateau, using Vermilion Cliffs National Monument as an important landscape for data collection and management application.Apply for L17AS00142
- The Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "BLM-(AZ), Small Mammal Population Study, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.231.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jun 08, 2017.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Aug 07, 2017. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $125,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.
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