Project Grant F13AP00614

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2 awarded a $665,699 Formula Grant to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department under the Wildlife Restoration and Basic Hunter Education and Safety program (CFDA 15.611) to study the movement ecology and population connectivity of the cave myotis bat (Myotis velifer) and inform management response to protect the species from impacts of white-nose syndrome in Texas. Specifically, the grant will support building on existing long-term...

This federal Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684), provides $340,771 to Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) to consolidate efforts for colony monitoring and Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) surveillance across the range of Myotis velifer (cave myotis) in five U.S. states and two Mexican states. The key objectives are to 1) build a summer and colony count data pipeline to...

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 5 awarded a $132,710 Project Grant to Bioconciencia A.C. from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684). The grant will support continued efforts to document winter bat ecology in Mexico and assess potential entry and spread of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd) fungus. Key activities include winter colony counts and searches for new bat hibernacula, with...

This Project Grant award, provided by the Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684), focuses on elucidating the population genetics and connectivity of tri-colored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) and monitoring the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans and its impact, white-nose syndrome, across the southern leading edge of the disease. The $220,249.94 award to Kennesaw State University Research 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 $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,...

This $1,228,154.45 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) supports the North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABAT). NABAT is an interagency initiative designed to monitor bat distribution and abundance across North America, providing critical data to inform conservation management decisions. Through this award, the Wildlife Management Institute, Inc. will deliver a comprehensive...

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) will receive $131,431.13 through a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. Geological Survey under the Cooperative Research Units program (CFDA 15.812) to conduct bat acoustic surveys and white-nose syndrome monitoring on the Navajo Nation in Arizona from May 11, 2022 through July 1, 2024. Under this award, Virginia Tech researchers will perform broad landscape-level acoustic surveys year-round to determine bat species...

This Project Grant award, funded by the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684), will support research to understand the progression of white-nose syndrome, a devastating fungal disease affecting bat populations, in Western U.S. regions. The $162,499 award to Northern Arizona University will focus on surveillance of the causative fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans across four Western states...

This $305,237 Formula Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program supports a 3-year study on the status and ecology of three state-threatened raptor species in Texas: the zone-tailed hawk, gray hawk, and common black hawk. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, the state agency responsible for conserving Texas' natural resources, is the prime recipient for this award. The project will conduct...

This Project Grant award of $177,895.00 from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the White-nose Syndrome National Response Implementation program (CFDA 15.684) will fund research to quantify the impacts of climate change on cave microclimates and their effects on white-nose syndrome dynamics in tricolored bats across 60 caves in the southeastern United States. The primary awardee, North Carolina State University, will collaborate with a sub-awardee, the University...