FE Waren Air Force Base, threatened and endangered species

Post Date

July 7th 2014

Application Due Date

July 14th 2014

This is a Notice of Intent to award a Single Source Cooperative agreement to the University of Wyoming iaw Service Policy 516 FW6 unique qualifications.

Funding Opportunity Number

F14AS00285

CFDA Number(s)

15.608

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Information and Statistics
Natural Resources
Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent to award a Single Source Cooperative agreement to the University of Wyoming and the Wyoming Natural Heritage database for the purpose of performing surveys for threatened and endangered species on FE Warren Air Force Base (FEWAFB). This is a CESU agreement.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $500000

• Award Range:

  $1000 - $100000

Grant Description

The tasks to be performed under this agreement are as follows: The results provide a baseline for FEWAFB to address Colorado butterfly plant status as part of the RNA and RMP frameworks (Grunau et al. 2004), and as originally addressed in a Memorandum of Agreement between FEWAFB and the Service (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1982) that was created to facilitate the preservation, conservation, and management of Colorado butterfly plant. The fieldwork provides close scrutiny and a system for management dialogue. For example, on two separate occasions, a pocket of purple loose-strife (Lythrum salicaria) has been documented in occupied habitat. Likewise, a pocket of Russian knapweed (Centaurea repens) was documented adjoining occupied habitat. They were eradicated immediately and none of these highly invasive species have persisted on the Base. The fieldwork mapping also informed placement of new developments. It has been used to plan management actions that included goat grazing and biocontrol introductions. Consultation meetings and on-site visits have been initiated by FEWAFB in the past for WYNDD input. In addition to the monitoring conventions of previous years, we propose full monitoring replication to quantify error rate, update and produce multiple Population Viability Analyses (Wepprich 2008, Heidel et al. 2010), work to confirm the flea beetle herbivore vector, and publication of PVA/monitoring results. In addition, we look for potential use of the FEWAFB population as a springboard for introducing agencies to Colorado butterfly plant and recovering it and possibly framing other research tasks if they advance recovery.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Pamela Sponholtz, Project Officer, 303 236-4216
  pamela_sponholtz@fws.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  pamela_sponholtz@fws.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  pamela_sponholtz@fws.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov