Cooperative Agreement 701818J555

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG) was awarded a $1.5 million Formula Grant by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 to support continued caribou photocensus through June 2028. The funding will support maintenance and improvement of survey systems, research and refinement of survey techniques, and long-term storage of collected data under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611). The Pittman-Robertson program...

This $132,621 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (CFDA 15.808 - U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection) supports a project to quantify and project the effects of climate change on the summer behavior and distribution of the Porcupine caribou herd in Arctic Alaska. The project leverages field data collected by a collaboration between the USGS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Yukon Government, and Parks Canada to analyze how...

The purpose of this $239,008 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) is to improve the management of chronic wasting disease (CWD)-affected wild cervid populations. The key activities to be performed include: Conducting a comprehensive literature review to identify and evaluate reliable, standardizable methods for estimating white-tailed deer population...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $355,365.00 Formula Grant to the State Of Oregon Department Of Fish And Wildlife (Salem Region Office) on July 1, 2023. The grant is funded through the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (CFDA 15.611) program, which provides funding to state wildlife agencies for projects to restore, conserve, manage, and enhance wild birds and mammals and their habitat. The grant will fund a comprehensive data collection project...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will receive $832,787.65 under a Formula Grant award from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 7 through June 30, 2027. The funding supports monitoring of moose nutritional condition and habitat quality after landscape-scale wildfires on the Kenai Peninsula through 2027. Specifically, the award will continue 14 years of data collection on moose movements in early successional habitats compared to late successional areas, providing...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management's Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to develop a habitat selection model that improves spatial knowledge of suitable habitat conditions for the threatened wood bison species in Alaska. Key activities include working with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Colorado State University, and local communities to gather habitat data, enhance geospatial...

This $1,089,193 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) supports the California Department of Fish and Wildlife's (CDFW) efforts to manage and conserve California's elk and pronghorn populations. The grant will fund research and monitoring activities to better understand the abundance, demographics, movements, habitat use, and disease...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 1 awarded a $997,342 Formula Grant to the State of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Salem Region Office, under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (CFDA 15.611) program. The grant will fund a 3-year study to understand the demographics, resource selection patterns, forage availability, and diet quality of the healthy California bighorn sheep population in the John Day River Canyon. The research team, including...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,000,000 5-year Formula Grant to the Alaska Department of Fish & Game under the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (CFDA 15.611). The purpose of this grant is to continue restoration of robust wood bison herds in Alaska. The goal is to complete more wood bison releases in the most biologically sound and humane manner possible, which includes monitoring the released herds to understand factors influencing herd growth and success. The...

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 $248,315 to Colorado State University to improve management of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervid populations in the Rocky Mountain National Park. Key activities include: Using paired-pool RT-QuIC and/or PMCA techniques to systematically sample and test feces and plant samples in the park for CWD...