Cooperative Agreement L24AC00623

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247), provides $400,000 in funding to the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory dba Bird Conservancy of the Rockies. The funding will support expanding the organization's Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) program to conduct additional bird surveys on BLM lands in Idaho, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. The expanded monitoring will provide robust...

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) program, will fund a $438,945 research project over 3 years from March 1, 2025 to February 29, 2028. The University of Arizona, in partnership with the Tucson Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy, will study the emergence of the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) in Arizona and its potential to transmit the bacterial Spotted...

This $160,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) supports long-term monitoring of landbird populations across 13 national park units in the Northern Great Plains region. The awardee, the non-profit Bird Conservancy of the Rockies, will implement a standardized regional bird monitoring program using the Integrated Monitoring in Bird Conservation Regions (IMBCR) sampling...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Wildlife Resource Management program (CFDA 15.247) provides $288,704 to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD) to assess the impact of solar energy development, the proposed I-11 corridor, and urban development on wildlife movement and connectivity in Arizona. The project will collect GPS tracking data from four wildlife species - Sonoran pronghorn, mule deer, bobcat, and kit fox - to identify and...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $277,126 Cooperative Agreement under the Southwest Border Resource Protection Program (CFDA 15.963) to the Tucson Audubon Society. The project aims to address declining avian biodiversity, focusing on the vulnerable Desert Purple Martin, a neotropical migrant. Key activities include: 1) tracking migration routes and overwintering locations in Brazil using satellite tags, 2) analyzing feather samples to assess mercury exposure and...

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $140,000 Project Grant under the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act Program (CFDA 15.517) to the Arizona Department of Game and Fish (AZGFD). The grant will support AZGFD's management of the bald eagle population in Arizona, which is vulnerable due to the small and isolated nature of the population. Key project activities include occupancy and reproductive assessments, bald eagle winter counts, the Arizona Bald Eagle Nest...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, through the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), awarded a $183,000 Cooperative Agreement to the Tucson Audubon Society to mitigate the spread of noxious weeds and manage woody vegetation in Arizona. The award period is from July 1, 2024 to September 30, 2025. Key activities include manual removal of noxious weeds, herbicide treatment, chainsaw removal of woody species, vegetation surveys, seed collection, restoration, and...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey's National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers (CFDA 15.820) provides $173,290 to the University of Massachusetts for a 3-year project titled "Forecasting Changes in Avian Biodiversity Under Changing Climate". The project aims to: Forecast species distributions and abundances for migratory forest birds in the Northeast U.S. under climate and land-use change scenarios through 2100. Identify priority areas for...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Land Management's Threatened and Endangered Species Program (CFDA 15.246) provides $160,213 to the University of Arizona from Sep 10, 2024 to Jun 3, 2029 to conduct research and conservation efforts for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl in the Altar and Avra Valley regions of Arizona. The project aims to enhance the status and habitat of this threatened species through activities such as population surveys, habitat restoration, and...

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...