Cooperative Agreement F20AC12077

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife received a $1,206,162.50 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to support the Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake and Eastern Prairie Fringed Orchid Habitat Protection and Management Project in Ashtabula County, Ohio and Cass County, Michigan. The funding was provided through the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615), which provides federal...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $110,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Ohio State University to develop techniques for ex situ rearing of the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis). The two-phase project will initially focus on using a closely related surrogate species, the yellow banded bumble bee (Bombus terricola), to develop protocols for captive rearing, disease...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $136,318 Cooperative Agreement under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to The Ohio State University. The project will develop a population model using statistical catch-at-age analysis to estimate age-specific abundance, mortality, and recruitment dynamics of nonnative channel catfish in the San Juan River basin. This model will assess how annual recruitment is impacted by spawner biomass and environmental variation,...

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...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), awarded a $132,710 Cooperative Agreement to the New Mexico Biopark Society Inc. effective February 1, 2024 for a 3-year project. The goal of the project is to develop husbandry techniques and establish captive breeding programs for two federally endangered springsnail species - the Roswell springsnail and Koster's springsnail. This will provide a contingency plan in case the wild...

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...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $664,000 Project Grant to The Nature Conservancy under the Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance program (CFDA 15.608). The grant will fund a 4-year initiative to restore 600 acres of wetlands within the Cuyahoga River Area of Concern in Ohio. This will involve an invasive species control effort led by a dedicated strike team, as well as passive wildlife monitoring through a citizen science program. Key deliverables...

This $680,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation (CFDA 15.657) program aims to continue, enhance, and augment the captive breeding program for the endangered Chittenango ovate amber snail (COAS). The project will enable the introduction of additional COAS snails to the wild habitat at Chittenango Falls, New York, as well as translocate snails to newly identified ecologically similar...

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 U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $3,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the National Fish Passage Program (CFDA 15.685) to the State of Ohio Office of Budget and Management State Accounting, doing business as the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The project, titled "The Middle Great Miami River Restoration Project," will remove two low dams, reconnect a 1.5-mile oxbow channel, and create a bank-to-bank nature-like fishway riffle across a...