This grant, offered by the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR), aims to continue and expand crucial conservation efforts for the federally threatened Chiricahua Leopard Frog (CLF). The primary objective is to eliminate non-native American Bullfrog populations from BANWR and adjacent areas, including Santa Margarita Ranch and the Pajarito Mountains, as these pose a significant threat to CLF recovery. The work involves manual bullfrog removal, extensive patrolling, and comprehensive monitoring of existing and newly established CLF populations. This project seeks to prevent bullfrog re-establishment by eradicating source populations, thereby ensuring the long-term protection of CLF within the BANWR-region metapopulation and contributing directly to the species’ recovery plan in Recovery Unit 1.
Opportunity ID: 52107
General Information
| Document Type: | Grants Notice |
| Funding Opportunity Number: | NWRS-R2-22530-1001 |
| Funding Opportunity Title: | Chiricahua Leopard Frog Conservation at Buenos Aires NWR |
| Opportunity Category: | Discretionary |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: | – |
| Funding Instrument Type: | Other |
| Category of Funding Activity: | Natural Resources |
| Category Explanation: | – |
| Expected Number of Awards: | 1 |
| Assistance Listings: | 15.642 — Challenge Cost Share |
| Cost Sharing or Matching Requirement: | Yes |
| Version: | Synopsis 1 |
| Posted Date: | Feb 24, 2010 |
| Last Updated Date: | – |
| Original Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 03, 2010 |
| Current Closing Date for Applications: | Mar 03, 2010 |
| Archive Date: | Apr 02, 2010 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: | $20,000 |
| Award Ceiling: | $20,000 |
| Award Floor: | $20,000 |
Eligibility
| Eligible Applicants: | Public and State controlled institutions of higher education |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: | – |
Additional Information
| Agency Name: | Region 2 |
| Description: | This proposed work is a continuation of the maintenance removal of non-native American Bullfrogs from BANWR and monitoring of Chiricahua Leopard Frog populations on and near the refuge conducted under Challenge Cost Share funding in 2008-2009, with the new objective to remove all bullfrog populations near enough to immigrate onto the refuge. Work will continue to prevent immigrating non-native American Bullfrogs from becoming re-established on BANWR by removing them manually, and monitor extant, re-established and newly self-established populations of the federally threatened Chiricahua Leopard Frog on the refuge and adjacent areas. Project will involve patrolling the refuge and adjoining ranches to establish the success of bullfrog removals, and to ensure that no new bullfrog threats have developed. In 2009 the Santa Margarita Ranch granted permission to eliminate all bullfrogs from the ranch, the last remaining source populations of bullfrogs in Altar Valley. The monitoring indicates that all bullfrogs from all but two stock tanks on the ranch were removed by the end of the frog activity season last fall, but it is imperative to continue this effort through 2010 to remove any remnant frogs before they can breed or migrate, and to verify success of total elimination. When completed, the removal effort that will have eliminated bullfrog source ponds from the west flank of BANWR. While removing the bullfrogs in 2009 we were able to conduct a baseline survey for Chiricahua Leopard Frogs on the ranch, and we are assisting SMR in pursuing a Safe Harbor Agreement for this leopard frog with the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
We are proposing also to attack bullfrog populations in the Pajarito Mountains (adjoining BANWR on its east boundary) to eliminate the bullfrog threat (albeit a less immediate threat for the refuge) from that direction as well. This will protect in situ populations of Chiricahua Leopard Frogs in Coronado National Forest, which are understood as part of the BANWR-region metapopulation, thus assuring recovery of this species in Recovery Unit 1 per the Chiricahua Leopard Frog Recovery Plan. |
| Link to Additional Information: | – |
| Grantor Contact Information: | If you have difficulty accessing the full announcement electronically, please contact:
Sally Gall, Supervisory Wildlife Refuge Specialist
(520)-823-4251 x103 Email:sally_gall@fws.gov |
Version History
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Packages
| Agency Contact Information: | Sally Gall, Supervisory Wildlife Refuge Specialist (520)-823-4251 x103 Email: sally_gall@fws.gov |
| Who Can Apply: | Organization Applicants |
| Assistance Listing Number | Competition ID | Competition Title | Opportunity Package ID | Opening Date | Closing Date | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15.642 | PKG00016661 | Feb 24, 2010 | Mar 03, 2010 | View |
Package 1
Mandatory forms
52107 SF424-2.0.pdf
Optional forms
52107 SF424D-1.1.pdf
52107 SF424C-1.0.pdf
52107 SF424B-1.1.pdf
52107 SF424A-1.0.pdf
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