Cooperative Agreement 0897061713CA

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care program (CFDA 10.025) provides funding for research and management strategies to address chronic wasting disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer herds. The $205,913 award to Texas A&M AgriLife Research aims to develop an alternative to whole herd depopulation for CWD-positive herds. The project will...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028), provides $250,000 to improve the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervid populations on tribal lands. Key activities include: Developing a quantitative framework to estimate CWD prevalence and inform surveillance efforts by modeling disease distribution and sampling biases on tribal lands. This...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS), under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028), provides $246,395 to Cornell University to improve the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD)-affected wild cervid populations. The key activities include data wrangling to populate the Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease (SOP4CWD) data warehouse, and expert elicitation to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028) provides $165,116 to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission's Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) to improve management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Florida's wild cervid populations. The key objectives are to: double CWD sample collection and surveillance in a 1-mile radius; meet or...

This Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Wildlife Services program (CFDA 10.028) provides $196,250 to the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (AGFC) to improve management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervid populations. The project aims to monitor CWD prevalence, maximize early detection of new outbreaks, and provide free CWD testing services to all interested hunters throughout...

This Cooperative Agreement, valued at $235,410.00 and awarded by the United States Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), supports a project to develop and expand free, online training on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) prevention and management for stakeholders across 13 U.S. states. The project leverages resources from seven states and expands the training to an additional six CWD-affected states. The training covers topics such as CWD disease...

This $181,522 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey will support research on chronic wasting disease diagnostics and transmission dynamics in mule deer in Wyoming. Funded activities under the award include field sampling of mule deer to optimize non-lethal chronic wasting disease testing methods. Global positioning system collar data will also be analyzed to examine mule deer movement patterns, habitat use, and landscape factors related to disease prevalence in the region....

This Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service will provide $381,451 to Louisiana State University to increase chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing capacity in Louisiana. CWD is a fatal prion disease affecting cervids that is difficult to detect without widespread surveillance testing. Under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care federal grant program, the University will purchase an additional automated...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025) provides $249,820 to Texas A&M AgriLife Research to develop a Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) herd management option for a large CWD-positive white-tailed deer herd. The project aims to remove CWD-positive deer and highly susceptible deer identified through ante...

This cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the CFDA 10.028 Wildlife Services program, aims to improve the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD)-affected wild cervid populations. The $239,008 award to Michigan State University will fund activities such as: 1) a comprehensive literature review to identify reliable white-tailed deer assessment methods suitable for local-scale CWD management, 2)...