Cooperative Agreement 23GN11080200386

The Department of Natural Resources Colorado, Executive Director's Office, received a $106,667 federal Project Grant under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6. The grant supports field surveys, monitoring, and data development for plant species listed under the Endangered Species Act and other priority plant species in Colorado. The data collected will be entered into the Colorado Natural Heritage Program's central...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $200,000 cooperative agreement to the Species Conservation Office Of under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025. The award will support the Idaho Sage-Grouse Actions Team to undertake restoration actions and secure species information to help prevent the need to list the sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act. As outlined in the program description, funding...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $115,666 Cooperative Agreement to Tangled Bank Conservation, a minority-owned, small disadvantaged business, under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660). Through this 3-year award from June 2023 to June 2026, Tangled Bank Conservation will sequence existing tissues and gather additional tissues to assess the threat of hybridization and quantify population sizes across the range of the Alabama...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded Oregon State University a $105,000 cooperative agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to assess the influence of ravens on the Baker, Oregon sage-grouse population through raven removal. The cooperative agreement, awarded February 12, 2021 for a period ending November 1, 2021, will support Oregon State University's efforts to secure endangered species information and...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $216,587.59 Cooperative Agreement to the Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation on January 1, 2024 under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660). The purpose of this award is to restore and preserve populations of the white fringeless orchid, a threatened species, on Tennessee state natural areas and parks. The project will also benefit more than 100 additional species of conservation...

The Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) received a $6,142,016 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615). The grant will support DNR's efforts to acquire 926 acres of high-functioning habitat for the federally threatened Northern spotted owl and Oregon spotted frog, as well as five additional federal at-risk species, as part of a larger 2,476-acre...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) received a $217,536 three-year Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program. The grant will support CDFW's efforts to evaluate the effects of the 2020 CZU Lightning Complex Fire and fire suppression activities on the recovery of two endangered plant species native to the Santa Cruz Mountains: Santa Cruz cypress...

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) received a $3 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) for the period of August 1, 2021 through September 30, 2025. The funding will support habitat restoration, invasive species control, and other conservation activities across five states through five sub-awards totaling $3 million. Specifically, sub-awards...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the County of Baker, in Oregon, to implement conservation actions that increase the quality and quantity of sagebrush habitat and reverse the sage-grouse population trend in the Baker County Priority Area for Conservation (PAC). The grant funds will be used to implement Tier 1 projects, which include removing juniper from high priority...

This $132,000 project grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4, under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660), will fund genetic analysis and population modeling to help inform conservation of the gopher frog (Lithobates capito). Tangled Bank Conservation will sequence thousands of genetic loci from 1,000 existing gopher frog samples across the species' range. They will assess phylogeographic structure, identify potential distinct...