The funding provided through notice of funding opportunity number F22AS00144 will enable the arizona department of agriculture to fund subcontractors to conduct research, surveys, monitoring and…

The funding provided through notice of funding opportunity number F22AS00144 will enable the arizona department of agriculture to fund subcontractors to conduct research, surveys, monitoring and restoration of arizona s federally listed and other rare plants of concern this year we received 11 section 6 grant proposals totaling 210,349 18 we were able to fund 9 proposals in full with the 143,764 40 available to distribute these proposals are summarized here 1 maintaining the presence of the university of arizona herbarium staff in the section 6 program, 2 organizing and digitizing FWS rare plant files maintained by the USFWS AZ plant ecologist, 3 investigating source and age of surface and groundwater impacting the endangered orchid spiranthes delitescens, 4 surveying and collecting tissue samples of the rare poppy arctomecon californica, 5 monitoring the listed cactus pediocactus peeblesianus SSP peeblesianus, 6 surveying for the listed cactus coryphantha robbinsorum in potential habitat in new mexico, 7 monitoring the rare milkvetch astragalus cremnophylax VAR myriorraphis, 8 surveying for and monitoring the rare milkvetch astragalus hypoxylus, and 9 surveying for the rare milkvetcyh astragalus endopterus this work will enable recovery actions to commence and increase our knowledge about species current conditions, vulnerabilities, and management and recovery needs the resulting reports will enable the fish and wildlife service to better make informed decisions on listing, designating critical habitat, recovery actions, and down and DE listing criteria, as well as inform species status assessments and 5 year reviews