Joint Fire Science Program/Wildland Fire and Research Program

Post Date

September 18th 2013

Application Due Date

September 27th 2013

Funding Opportunity Number

FA-FON-13-0001

CFDA Number(s)

15.232

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Public and State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $274420

• Award Range:

  $274420 - $274420

Grant Description

Funding Opportunity Description: This is a single-source announcement for a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) and Northern Arizona University Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology (NAU-LLECB) to complete field research, analyses, progress reports and other aspects of the research over the duration of the project. The project start and ending dates are 07/31/2013 and 6/31/2016. Fish and Wildlife Service PI and Co-PI will be highly involved in the project providing existing data, assistance with student advising as well as analytical and technical support to NAU-LLECB CoPI and collaborators for the duration of this project. This project is focused on the Serviceуs Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in an effort to improve the natural resources and health of wildlife populations and their habitats, with a focus on habitat rehabilitation and prescribed fire impacts on the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Fish and Wildlife Service

• Agency Contact:

  Steve Sesnie
  Phone 5052486631

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Spatial Ecologist

• Agency Email Address:

  steven_sesnie@fws.gov