Project Grant F19AP00856

This Cooperative Agreement 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 critical activities to protect and create new habitats for the endangered Northeastern Beach Tiger Beetle. The $123,100 grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, funds a range of conservation actions, including: 1) Ongoing surveys and monitoring of the newly established beetle population in New Jersey to assess...

This $130,000.00 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) supports Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI) in conducting internal wildlife surveys at abandoned mine openings in the Mojave National Preserve (MOJA) in California. The goal of this project is to complete surveys to identify the presence of wildlife, particularly Townsend's big-eared bat and desert tortoise,...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife received a $103,886.78 project grant award from the U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 3 to monitor reintroduction efforts for the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in Ohio. The grant was awarded on January 1, 2022 under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund program (CFDA 15.615), with completion scheduled for December 31, 2024. This federal program provides financial...

This $188,679 cooperative agreement from the U.S. Geological Survey will fund research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University examining appropriate survey standards for bat species impacted by white-nose syndrome. The research will determine optimal acoustic sampling and mist netting levels of effort, duration, and sites to conclusively assess presence or absence of the endangered Indiana bat, threatened northern long-eared bat, and at-risk little brown and tricolored bats....

The Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $292,721 Project Grant to Purdue University under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657) to track the migratory behavior and winter activity of endangered bat species in Mammoth Cave National Park. The research will use the MOTUS wildlife tracking system to monitor the movement of Indiana bats, northern long-eared bats, and tricolored bats as they migrate and congregate at fall swarm sites. The...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) awarded a $342,900.97 cooperative agreement to The Great Basin Institute (GBI) to conduct Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) surveys in the Amargosa Valley of southern Nevada. This project, funded under the Endangered Species Recovery Implementation program (CFDA 15.657), is a partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pahrump Field Office to better understand desert tortoise distribution and population status in areas that may be...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded a $800,000 Project Grant under the Cooperative Endangered Species Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.615) to the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) to assist with the acquisition of 80 acres of land in Missouri. This land includes two key cave entrances, eight sinkholes, and provides important watershed protection to the headwaters of the Moore Cave System, which is critical habitat for the endangered and county endemic Grotto Sculpin. The grant will...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $152,845.62 and issued on September 20, 2023, supports a project through the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) managed by the National Park Service. Under this award, Bat Conservation International, Inc. (BCI), a non-profit organization, is partnering with the National Park Service to map and survey bat populations in a series of mine complexes located within Death Valley National...

This Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $760,519.51 and funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports Colorado State University's research and technical assistance on the ecology and management of Phloeosinus bark beetles in giant sequoia forests. The project aims to describe the basic ecology of these beetles and test methods for controlling their populations, which can...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (CFDA 16.560 - National Institute of Justice Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants) provides $111,822 to develop a species identification approach for carrion beetles that can enhance their utility in forensic investigations for assessing postmortem interval (PMI). The award recipient, The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF-SUNY), will leverage recent findings that some insects exhibit...