Project Grant F15AP01133

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), under the National Wildlife Refuge System Enhancements program (CFDA 15.654), awarded a $200,000 Cooperative Agreement to Point Blue Conservation Science (Point Blue). The purpose of this 5-year project is to develop a habitat suitability model and survey protocol to monitor changes in the extent of western snowy plover nesting habitat at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge in California. The key deliverables include: 1) a habitat...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service under the Migratory Bird Monitoring, Assessment and Conservation program (CFDA 15.655) will fund research by SUL Ross State University to assess the suitability of livestock tanks and ephemeral ponds as habitat for migratory and wintering grassland birds in the Trans-Pecos region of Texas. The $176,785 award will support the use of automated recording units, point counts, and GPS tracking of...

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...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) was awarded a $343,305 Formula Grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program. The purpose of the grant is to survey and monitor Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) nests in the Sacramento Valley over two breeding seasons (2025 and 2026) to assess breeding population status and inform habitat management. The research will be conducted by a graduate student and field technician under the...

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) awarded a $149,076.50 Cooperative Agreement to Utah State University (USU) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) to track and understand range shifts in Southwestern bird species populations in response to climate change. The project aims to develop novel statistical models and utilize broad-extent bird datasets, including citizen science, to map and analyze how bird populations are shifting their ranges in the Southwestern U.S. The...

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has been awarded a $540,019 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service's Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to implement actions to conserve and manage the federally threatened Western Snowy Plover (WSPL) and federally endangered California Least Tern (CLTE) in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, California. Key activities include replacing a fence at the Venice Beach CLTE colony,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program, awarded the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission (Agfc) a $189,150 Formula Grant on October 1, 2023. The grant funds a 3-year project to assess the breeding ecology of the Cerulean Warbler in managed and unmanaged forests of the Ozark Ecoregion in central hardwood forests of Arkansas. The goal is to validate and modify existing Appalachian-focused management guidelines for this species across its range....

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the State Wildlife Grants (CFDA 15.634) program provides $1,128,200.00 to expand the Motus wildlife tracking network and study the migratory patterns and habitat use of four species of greatest conservation need in the Pacific and Intermountain Western U.S. regions. Specifically, the grant will fund the installation of 30 new Motus stations and the retrofitting of 50 existing stations to detect transmitters and track the...

This $309,626 Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Fish and Wildlife Service under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) program will support the continuation of a regional Coastal California Gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica californica) monitoring program in California in 2024-2025. The principal investigator is Dr. Barbara Kus of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), who will coordinate with local Natural Community Conservation...

The U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters awarded a $674,360 Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation (CFDA 15.635) project grant to Fundacion De Conservacion Jocotoco, a non-profit organization in Ecuador. The two-year project aims to reduce habitat loss and information gaps on 114,000 acres, forming ecological corridors in northern Ecuador. Key activities include patrolling the Jocotoco Narupa Reserve to mitigate threats, monitoring migratory bird...