Vegetation Inventories

Post Date

May 5th 2010

Application Due Date

May 7th 2010

Funding Opportunity Number

NPS-NOI-MISC-GR04

CFDA Number(s)

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

This is a "Notice of Intent" of a single source task agreement award to the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO under the Great Rivers Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). This single source award is justified as a continuation. The Missouri Resources Assessment Program is conducting Natural Resource Condition Assessments for George Washington Carver NM, Pea Ridge NMP, and Wilson’s Creek NB through task agreement # J2106 08 0056. The land cover map developed from the condition assessments will serve as the base map for vegetation mapping. Field reconnaissance conducted through the condition assessment will also inform preliminary development of National Vegetation Classification descriptions. Integrating the condition assessment and vegetation mapping efforts results in substantial cost savings to the NPS.

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $204611

• Award Range:

  $None - $204611

Grant Description

The primary objective of the Vegetation Mapping Inventory is to produce high-quality, standardized maps and associated data sets of vegetation and other land-cover occurring within parks. This information fills and complements a wide variety of resource assessment, park management, and conservation needs. Vegetation species and communities are unique from park to park. The inventory of these resources helps park managers conserve plant biodiversity, manage challenges such as exotic species, insect outbreaks, and diseases, and understand resources and processes such and wildlife habitat relationships and wildland fires.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Tonya Bradley
  Contract Specialist
  Phone 402-661-1656

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Help Desk

• Agency Email Address:

  tonya_bradley@nps.gov