Assess Long-term Viability of Restored Swift Foxes in Badlands NP and western South Dakota

Post Date

July 2nd 2008

Application Due Date

July 9th 2008

Funding Opportunity Number

A1300080049

CFDA Number(s)

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $161798

• Award Range:

  $161798 - $161798

Grant Description

Badlands National Park (BADL) began a three-year swift fox restoration program in 2003. A significant number of these released foxes are surviving to reproduce and will likely establish a population. Therefore, it is essential to continue to monitor this population by gathering reproduction, pup survival, habitat preference, and genetic information in order to assess the long-term viability of the population. This project will also guide future management decisions about population supplementation beyond the current release program. In addition, it will be important to determine if/when the Badlands swift fox population merges or connects with the resident swift fox population in southwestern South Dakota. These two populations would then begin to function as a metapopulation and thus increase genetic diversity and population viability.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Tonya Bradley
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 402-661-1656

• Agency Mailing Address:

  tonya_bradley@nps.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  tonya_bradley@nps.gov