The USFWS is offering a grant to the Minnesota Land Trust for a 3-year project aimed at developing a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) for the Lower St. Louis River area. The project will involve creating a framework for collaborative decision-making among local communities, tribal, State, and federal agencies to promote conservation and utilization of natural resources. The goal is to enhance community health, economic development, and ecological integrity while supporting long-term conservation of fish and wildlife resources in the Western Lake Superior region. The grant aims to establish the LCD framework, coordinate working groups, evaluate land use plans, develop decision-support tools, and collect data to assess outcomes.
Opportunity ID: 308835
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | F18AS00339 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Landscape Conservation Design for the Lower St. Louis River |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Environment Natural Resources Science and Technology and other Research and Development |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.662 — Great Lakes Restoration |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Sep 07, 2018 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 14, 2018 There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source Cooperative Agreement to the Minnesota Land Trust, Duluth, MN under justification 505DM 2.14.B.4. |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Sep 14, 2018 There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source Cooperative Agreement to the Minnesota Land Trust, Duluth, MN under justification 505DM 2.14.B.4. |
| Archive Date: | Sep 15, 2018 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $328,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $328,000 |
| Award Floor: | $325,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source Cooperative Agreement to the Minnesota Land Trust, Duluth, MN under justification 505DM 2.14.B.4. |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Fish and Wildlife Service |
| 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. |
| Link to Additional Information: | https://www.grants.gov/ |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Pete Fasbender 952-252-0092 Ext. 210
peter_fasbender@fws.gov Email:peter_fasbender@fws.gov |
Version History
| Version | Modification Description | Updated Date |
|---|---|---|
Related Documents
Folder 308835 Full Announcement-NOFO & Single Source -> Single Source_3-2452.pdf
Folder 308835 Full Announcement-NOFO & Single Source -> NOFO.pdf
Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Pete Fasbender 952-252-0092 Ext. 210 peter_fasbender@fws.gov Email: peter_fasbender@fws.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.662 | PKG00244778 | Sep 07, 2018 | Sep 14, 2018 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
308835 SF424_2_1-2.1.pdf
308835 SF424B-1.1.pdf
308835 SF424A-1.0.pdf
308835 ProjectNarrativeAttachments_1_2-1.2.pdf
Optional forms
308835 AttachmentForm_1_2-1.2.pdf
308835 SFLLL_1_2-1.2.pdf
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