Cooperative Agreement F20AC10734

This Project Grant award for $334,240 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service provides funding to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to implement 11 projects to recover U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) federally listed plants and a lichen species, as well as at-risk plant species, in the state of Florida. The award is funded through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program, which provides federal...

This Project Grant award of $351,963.31 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program provides funding for 11 projects to directly assist in the recovery of federally listed endangered and threatened plant and lichen species in Florida. The award, effective October 1, 2024, includes $263,076.13 in federal funds and $88,539 in matching funds. Key activities encompass land management, field...

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 $105,288.47 to the University of Florida to develop innovative tools and techniques for enhanced management of three highly invasive plant species impacting military lands in Florida. The key goals are to: 1) Reduce labor and herbicide inputs for melaleuca control, 2) Increase selectivity of cogongrass control to...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $442,094 Project Grant through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to advance the conservation and recovery of six rare plant species found on the northern Channel Islands off the coast of California. The project, led by the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG) and its collaborators, will implement critical surveys, seed collections, seed increase, and...

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....

This $1,220,321 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) supports the establishment of a native plant seed bank and restoration efforts on Army installations and adjacent lands in Hawaii. The project will systematically collect seeds from 10-15 "workhorse" native plant species across the Waianae and Koolau mountain ranges to initiate a native plant...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $140,303 five-year Cooperative Agreement to Oregon State University under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to support the establishment of the East Cascades Native Plant Hub in Bend, Oregon. The hub will coordinate a regional network to address organizational, ecological, and financial challenges in restoration and revegetation of sagebrush ecosystems, with a focus on increasing the availability of...

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 $673,655 in funding to the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The goal of the 10-year project is to support the identification of climate-resilient plant translocations by providing propagules for experimental translocations and conducting research to maintain ex situ collections for future translocations of threatened...

This $124,665 three-year 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) aims to restore the endangered Behrens and Myrtles Silverspot butterflies on the Sonoma-Mendocino coast by expanding the coverage of their larval host plant, Viola adunca, in Fort Ross State Historic Park. The project will test the effectiveness of two restoration methods - seed dispersal and planting mature...

This Project Grant award of $124,230.25 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 supports native seed collection, propagation, and banking efforts through July 2027. The award was made under the Partners for Fish and Wildlife program to the Desert Botanical Garden Inc. Working with subawardee the Arboretum at Flagstaff, the Desert Botanical Garden will collect and grow out seeds of carefully selected native plants from Arizona to increase the supply for...