RECOVERY ACT(ARRA) National Park Service, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Control Invasive Plants to Protect Natural Resources

Post Date

February 4th 2010

Application Due Date

February 14th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

NPS-ARRANOIINDU100199

CFDA Number(s)

15.931

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a Notice of Intent to award to Student Conservation Association the Control of Invasive Plants to Protect Natural Resources at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. this agreement was competed in accordance with internal NPS procedures.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $23094

• Award Range:

  $0 - $23094

Grant Description

RECOVERY;Control of Invasive Plants to Protect Natural Resources at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore Cowles Dunes; INDU 131211A; 14-1035. Cowles Dunes contains some of the most unique habitats found in the National Lakeshore including prairie, savanna, bog, fen, and wetland. Invasive plants within a 10 acre area surrounding 0.8 miles of trail segment A west of the Cowles Bog Trailhead would be searched and treated by two SCA's beginning in May. The primary species targeted consist of cattail, tree-of-heaven, honeysuckle, multiflora rose, Japanese barberry, Oriental bittersweet, burning bush, and olive. Treatment methods would include manual cutting and treating stumps with herbicide, as well as foliar herbicide application. If time allows, additional area surrounding the trail would be treated to serve as a buffer to re-invasion.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Theora McVay
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 402-661-1662

• Agency Mailing Address:

  email

• Agency Email Address:

  theora_mcvay@nps.gov