Invasive plant management poses a significant challenge for land managers, who often struggle to prioritize efforts effectively due to limited resources and a lack of species-specific spread information. This grant aims to address this by developing probabilistic maps and predictive models for non-native species spread within National Wildlife Refuges in the Mountain-Prairie Region. These models will enable managers to strategically prioritize inventory areas, monitor specific populations, and allocate resources more efficiently for management or eradication efforts. The initiative involves a partnership where the National Wildlife Refuge System will provide crucial presence/absence and treatment data. This data will be used to generate robust spread models and evaluate how species invasiveness varies environmentally, ultimately providing a vital prioritization framework for managing invasive species across Refuge System Lands.
Opportunity ID: 54052
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | FWS-R6-INVASIVEPLANTMANAGEMENT |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Predictive Modeling of non-native species spread (distribution) based on current habitat suitability and environmental variables for National Wildlife Refuges in Mountain-Prairie Region (MT/WY/CO/UT/NE/KS/ND/SD). |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Environment Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.608 — Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | No |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Apr 26, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | May 31, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | May 31, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | Jun 30, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $275,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $55,000 |
| Award Floor: | $3,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | Applicant Eligibility: Applicants may be other Federal agencies, State agencies, local governments, Native American Organizations, Interstate, Intrastate, public nonprofit institution/organization, other public institution/organization, private nonprofit/organization, or any other organization subject to the jurisidiction of the United States with interests which support the mission of the Service on a cost recoverable basis. Beneficiary Eligibility: |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Description: | Invasive plant management for land managers is often extensive and overwhelming. Often, drivers of invasiveness are assumed to be similar across species, and that all require immediate attention. Depending upon the invasiveness of a species, habitat suitability and limited amount of resources available, land managers are uncertain how to prioritize limited resources for the most effective management strategy and with which species to work. Probabilistic maps that predict a species expected spread can be used to prioritize inventory areas, to select populations to monitor for the degree of invasiveness and/or whether the effect of management is best spent on particular locations versus others that may allow a larger window of time before the population expand beyond where eradication efforts would succeed. Predictive maps of spread can then be used to develop a population prioritization framework for most effective management when resources are limited. Currently, limited species information has been developed for this type of model. This partnership will provide NWRS presence/absence data over time and after treatment so that different spread models can be generated, and evaluate how the invasiveness of species populations varies across different environments. These data and analyses will provide for a model of predicted spread and management strategy prioritization framework for National Wildlife Refuge System Lands. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Andrea Meyer
Phone 303-236-5412 Email:andrea_meyer@fws.gov |
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Andrea Meyer Phone 303-236-5412 Email: andrea_meyer@fws.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.608 | PKG00018305 | Apr 26, 2010 | May 31, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
54052 SF424-2.0.pdf
54052 Project-1.1.pdf
54052 Budget-1.1.pdf
54052 SF424A-1.0.pdf
54052 SF424B-1.1.pdf
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