BLM-MT Bird Inventory and Monitoring: Large Scale Riparian Monitoring and Responses to Land Management Actions

Funding Opportunity Number: L16AS00096 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: Natural ResourcesCFDA Number: 15.231Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: DOI-BLMClosing Date: Jul 26, 2016Award Ceiling: $25,000Expected Number of Awards: 1Creation Date: May 26, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: Background: The Missouri River system is the largest/longest river and riparian system in the state of Montana. Continued inventory and monitoring is necessary to determine the effects of flow regulation on riparian habitats and organisms. Further, mitigation, restoration, general land­use, or habitat improvement actions conducted by land management agencies need a monitoring component to understand what effect the action has on habitat and bird populations. These actions would include Russian Olive removal in the Missouri River, prescribed burns, thinning treatments, riparian exclosures, research into the effects of recreation, and any other actions that may alter habitat. Objectives: Support understanding the effects of river regulation and other land management actions on riparian habitat, bird distribution, and population dynamics though time. Public Benefit: This project will support a large publicly available inference scale fo...

Source: Grants.gov - May 26, 2016 Category: Research Tags: Natural Resources Source Type: funding