Cooperative Agreement BAA080008

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has awarded a $250,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) to the Riverside County Habitat Conservation Agency (RCHCA) for the "Stephens Kangaroo Rat Rangewide Monitoring 2023" project. The funding will allow RCHCA to conduct monitoring and conservation activities for the endangered Stephens' kangaroo rat in California from October 2023 through December 2024. Typical activities under this program...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $114,950 Cooperative Agreement (Award F24AC02276) under the Candidate Species Conservation program (CFDA 15.660) to the Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW) to support research and conservation efforts for the dark kangaroo mouse and pale kangaroo mouse in Nevada's sagebrush habitats. The project aims to study the population ecology and landscape connectivity of these two specialized rodent species, which are endemic to the Great Basin Desert. NDOW...

This $113,053.82 Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (CFDA 15.657 Endangered Species Recovery Implementation) supports a 2.5-year project to assess the long-term success of a 2020 translocation to establish a new population of the endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat in the San Jacinto region of California. The project will monitor the translocated population, evaluate the receiver site habitat, and provide supplemental individuals if needed to support...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife received a $127,699 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 on January 1, 2022 through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615). The grant will fund the development of an updated prioritization tool for land acquisition, habitat restoration, and translocation efforts to recover the endangered Riparian Brush Rabbit based on rigorous statistical analysis of the...

This $1,443,750 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) will support the acquisition and permanent protection of habitat essential for the recovery of the federally endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat, Santa Ana River woolly-star, and potential establishment of a new population of the federally endangered slender-horned spineflower. The grant, which will be matched by $375,375 in non-federal funds,...

This $470,608 project grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8, under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615), will support efforts to develop new science on the effects of habitat management on the Humboldt marten and its predators and prey in California. Specifically, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will use the funding to: 1) determine baseline distribution and abundance of martens and predators prior to...

This $4,347,652 Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), aims to recover the endangered blunt-nosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila) in the California Central Valley. The key deliverables include: Establishing a breeding program at the Fresno Chaffee Zoo to produce up to 100 lizards annually for reintroduction to remnant habitat on the Panoche Plateau. The project...

The Department of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation awarded $405,294 under the Central Valley Project Conservation (CFDA 15.564) federal grant program to the University of California, Davis to conduct research on the San Joaquin kit fox metapopulation. The research will provide high-resolution connectivity mapping and insights into the impacts of inbreeding depression on population and metapopulation persistence for the federally listed species. The project leverages modern and historical...

The $17.6 million project grant from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 8 through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program will fund the permanent protection and management of 2,346 acres of land providing habitat for threatened and endangered species in San Diego County, California. The State of California Department of Fish and Wildlife, doing business as the Wildlife Conservation Board, will use the funding in conjunction with...

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...