BLM CA AUGMENTING NATURAL DESERT TORTOISE POPULATION FERTILE ADULTS

Post Date

September 17th 2010

Application Due Date

October 27th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

L10AS00361

CFDA Number(s)

15.231

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

APPLICANTS MUST BE A PARTNER WITH THE DESERT SOUTHWEST COOPERATIVE ECOSYSTEM STUDIES UNIT

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $900000

• Award Range:

  $1000 - $90000

Grant Description

(1) to develop methods to speed the growth of hatchery-raised tortoises (mainly by extending food availability through irrigation of native plants within the pens used to protect the juveniles from predators), and to document the size and age at which hatchery-raised tortoises reach sexual maturity, (2) to determine whether generating hatchlings in hatcheries affects their gender (tortoise gender is determined by nest temperature and nesting inside hatchery pens may skew sex ratios one way or the other), and (3) to use hatchery-raised tortoises as a source of juveniles to restock areas depleted of wild desert tortoises, and to augment existing populations.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  Bureau of Land Management

• Agency Contact:

  Traci D Thaler, Grants and Agreements Specialist, 916-978-4529
  tthaler@blm.gov
  

• Agency Mailing Address:

  tthaler@blm.gov

• Agency Email Address:

  tthaler@blm.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov/