Cooperative Agreement F19AC00617

This federal 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), supports a comprehensive conservation research initiative focused on recovering the endangered Louisiana Pinesnake. The $232,668 award, granted to the Memphis Zoological Society, will fund several key activities over a 2-year period from June 2024 to May 2026. These include: improving cryopreservation and...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) has been awarded a $123,800.61 Project Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615). The funding will support conservation efforts for two threatened and endangered species in Louisiana - the Louisiana pinesnake (Pituophis ruthveni) and the Louisiana quillwort (Isoetes louisianensis). For the Louisiana pinesnake, LDWF will conduct population monitoring using box-trap-arrays...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $230,472 Formula Grant under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The grant funding will support a 2-year project (01/01/2025 - 12/31/2026) to characterize the location and timing of road mortality for all snake species, including the federally threatened Louisiana pinesnake, at a candidate reintroduction site and two adjacent sites in Texas. The project aims to quantify the habitat, weather,...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program (CFDA 15.631), will provide $109,000.00 to the Louisiana Wildlife Federation, Incorporated to deliver a comprehensive suite of habitat restoration and enhancement activities in Louisiana's west-central longleaf pine and stream focus areas. Key project components include forest stand improvements, prescribed burning, herbaceous understory planting, stream barrier removal,...

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...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) provides $548,021 to Revive & Restore, a non-profit conservation organization, to develop new biobanking methods to enhance recovery and management of threatened amphibian species, with a focus on the endangered Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri). The key goals of the project are to: (1) cryopreserve and recover live amphibian...

This $1.165 million National Science Foundation project grant will fund research at Marquette University from September 2022 through August 2026 to identify sex chromosomes in understudied lizard and snake species. The research aims to advance understanding of sex chromosome evolution by investigating reptile groups with diverse sex determination systems. Researchers will characterize sex chromosomes through comparative genomics, transcriptomics, and phylogenetics analyses. They will also...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service, under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, provides $213,333.34 to the State of Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks (MDWFP) for a 3-year intensive long-term study of alligator snapping turtle (AST) populations. The project has two main components: 1) mark-recapture surveys at five established AST populations across four major river...

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 $299,666.67 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to conduct a multi-year study on the presence, absence, and seasonal activity of the endangered northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) and the proposed-for-listing tricolor bat (Perimyotis subflavus) at Camp Shelby,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $1,404,411.78 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Rattlesnake Conservancy Inc. on November 15, 2023. The purpose of the award is to support conservation and recovery efforts for the New Mexico Ridge-nosed Rattlesnake, a federally listed endangered species found in only three locations in the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico. Key activities to be conducted under the...