Cooperative Agreement F12AC01515

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 4 awarded a $121,500 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation Program (CFDA 15.657) to the Natural Resources South Carolina Department. The project aims to apply new genetic tools and reanalyze existing datasets to identify optimal foraging habitat characteristics for the federally listed red knot shorebird along the South Carolina coast. The project team will work with stakeholders to develop a...

Rutgers University will conduct a spatially explicit population viability analysis for the piping plover within the New York-New Jersey recovery unit under a $118,066 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The analysis aims to determine the population size, demographic rates, habitat amounts and configurations necessary for viability and recovery of the subpopulation, including under scenarios of coastal storm impacts and sea level rise. Results will provide targets for...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) awarded South Dakota State University $111,402.93 under the Threatened and Endangered Species cooperative agreement program (CFDA 15.246) from September 2022 through September 2026. The university will identify current nesting colonies and habitat use of the pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocaphalus), a species that has declined 83.5% with an additional 50% decline anticipated by 2035. Field work will provide information on habitat features selected by nesting...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation Program (CFDA 15.655), provides $117,796 to Clemson University to conduct research on the endangered Black-capped Petrel (BCPE). The project aims to improve understanding of the BCPE's marine habitat use and movement patterns, particularly differences between light and dark color morphs, to assist with critical habitat designation and assessment of...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation program (CFDA 15.655), awarded a $113,820 Cooperative Agreement to Clemson University to conduct research on the endangered Black-capped Petrel (BCPE). The project aims to improve understanding of the BCPE's at-sea habitat use, movement patterns, and migration paths by tagging birds with solar-powered satellite tags. This data will assist with the designation of critical habitat and...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) through the Cooperative Research Units (CFDA 15.812) program, is supporting a project titled "Identifying and Prioritizing Research Needs and Assessing Population Status for Cape Sable Seaside Sparrows in Everglades National Park." The $100,000 award, effective from March 31, 2025 to December 31, 2027, will fund stakeholder meetings, structured decision-making workshops, and field monitoring of the...

This $1,200,000 federal Project Grant award from the USDA Forest Service under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance program (CFDA 10.664) will fund longleaf pine restoration and habitat enhancement projects on state, private, and tribal lands across the Southeast United States. The prime awardee, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), will work with sub-grantees including the American Bird Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, The Longleaf Alliance, and the Land Trust For Louisiana to...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) will provide $152,825 to the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association to fund Project Year 2 of a study entitled "Refining Our Understanding of Limber Pine-Juniper Woodland Habitat Use in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin to Maximize Landscape Conservation Benefits for Both Greater Sage-Grouse and Pinyon Jay." The study aims to identify management recommendations...

This 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), provides $295,704.50 to the Alachua Conservation Trust to assist the Camp Blanding Joint Training Center in Florida with a sandhill groundcover planting project over two years. The project aims to improve habitat for listed species and aquifer recharge, as well as decrease the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the area....

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...