Opportunity Information: Apply for G19AS00091
This grant opportunity, titled Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU (Funding Opportunity Number G19AS00091), was offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Fort Collins Science Center under the Department of the Interior. It was structured as a discretionary cooperative agreement within the Science and Technology/Research and Development category (CFDA 15.808). The program was designed to fund one project, with a maximum award amount of $223,940, and it targeted eligible applicants that are partners in the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), as described in the opportunity's eligibility guidance.
The core purpose of the opportunity was to support applied research that helps public land and wildlife managers make better landscape-level planning and management decisions across the western United States. The USGS was specifically seeking work that examines how land use and land management interact with habitat conditions and wildlife populations. The opportunity emphasizes that western landscapes are shaped by a mix of human activities and natural processes, including energy development, domestic livestock grazing, vegetation treatments, habitat restoration actions, wildfire, and climate-driven change. Because these drivers often overlap in space and time, their combined effects can be difficult to predict, and managers need clearer, evidence-based understanding of how these interacting factors influence habitat quality and wildlife distribution and abundance.
A major theme of the solicitation was the challenge of managing at large spatial scales where ownership and administrative boundaries fragment decision-making. The opportunity notes that management priorities, legal mandates, and conservation goals can differ across jurisdictions, even when wildlife populations and ecological processes move across the same broader landscape. As a result, the USGS sought research that can characterize habitat trends over time and connect those trends to management actions and disturbances, so that agencies can plan more effectively and adaptively. In practice, that means quantifying and interpreting changes in habitats caused by development, fire, climate variability, restoration projects, and other treatments, and then linking those habitat dynamics to wildlife population responses.
The work was intended to be directly useful for management decisions in grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands of the western U.S., with an explicit focus on native wildlife species of concern to federal and state agencies. The opportunity highlights groups such as grouse, songbirds, ungulates, and small mammals, and it indicates a need for analyses that address multiple species rather than treating each species in isolation. In particular, it calls for understanding how combinations of development patterns, restoration efforts, vegetation treatments, and fire regimes interact to affect wildlife and habitats, reflecting the reality that managers often implement actions simultaneously and must weigh tradeoffs among species and objectives.
Administratively, the opportunity was posted on July 9, 2019, with an original closing date of July 26, 2019, and it anticipated making a single award. Because the instrument was a cooperative agreement, it implies an expectation of substantial involvement or collaboration with the USGS during the project, which is typical when the agency wants research products tightly aligned with operational planning needs. Overall, the grant was aimed at generating actionable, landscape-scale science that helps agencies understand changing habitat conditions and wildlife responses in the face of development, management, and environmental change across the western United States.Apply for G19AS00091
- The Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.808.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 09, 2019.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 26, 2019. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
- Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $223,940.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What is the title of this grant opportunity?
The opportunity is titled Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, Rocky Mountain CESU.
What is the Funding Opportunity Number (FON)?
The Funding Opportunity Number is G19AS00091.
Which federal agency offered this opportunity?
This opportunity was offered by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), specifically through the USGS Fort Collins Science Center, under the Department of the Interior.
What type of funding instrument is this?
It was structured as a discretionary cooperative agreement.
What does it mean that the award is a cooperative agreement?
Because the instrument is a cooperative agreement, the opportunity indicates an expectation of substantial involvement or collaboration with USGS during the project. This is typical when the agency wants research products to stay closely aligned with operational planning and management needs.
What is the program category for this opportunity?
The opportunity falls under Science and Technology/Research and Development.
What is the CFDA number listed for this funding?
The CFDA number provided is 15.808.
How many awards were expected to be made?
The solicitation anticipated making a single award to fund one project.
What was the maximum award amount?
The maximum award amount was $223,940.
Who was eligible to apply?
Eligible applicants were limited to partners in the Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU), as described in the opportunity's eligibility guidance.
When was the opportunity posted?
The opportunity was posted on July 9, 2019.
What was the original closing date?
The original closing date was July 26, 2019.
What was the main purpose of the grant?
The core purpose was to support applied research that helps public land and wildlife managers make better landscape-level planning and management decisions across the western United States.
What kinds of research topics was USGS specifically looking for?
USGS sought work that examines how land use and land management interact with habitat conditions and wildlife populations. A key emphasis was understanding how multiple drivers overlap and combine to influence habitat quality, wildlife distribution, and wildlife abundance.
What geographic area was the work focused on?
The opportunity targeted landscape-scale research relevant to the western United States.
What habitat types were highlighted as priorities?
The work was intended to be directly useful for management decisions in grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands of the western U.S.
Which wildlife groups were mentioned as examples of species of concern?
The opportunity highlighted native wildlife species of concern to federal and state agencies, including groups such as grouse, songbirds, ungulates, and small mammals.
Was the opportunity focused on single-species studies or multi-species analyses?
It indicated a need for analyses that address multiple species rather than treating each species in isolation, reflecting real-world management tradeoffs and overlapping objectives.
What kinds of landscape drivers and disturbances did the opportunity emphasize?
The solicitation emphasized that western landscapes are shaped by a mix of human activities and natural processes, including:
- Energy development
- Domestic livestock grazing
- Vegetation treatments
- Habitat restoration actions
- Wildfire
- Climate-driven change
It also noted that these drivers often overlap in space and time, making combined effects harder to predict.
Why did the solicitation emphasize landscape-scale research?
A major theme was the challenge of managing at large spatial scales where ownership and administrative boundaries fragment decision-making. The opportunity notes that mandates, priorities, and conservation goals can differ across jurisdictions even when ecological processes and wildlife populations move across the same broader landscape.
What types of outputs or insights was the research expected to provide?
Based on the description, the research was expected to generate actionable, evidence-based understanding that helps managers by:
- Characterizing habitat trends over time
- Connecting habitat trends to management actions and disturbances
- Quantifying and interpreting habitat changes caused by development, fire, climate variability, restoration projects, and other treatments
- Linking habitat dynamics to wildlife population responses (distribution and abundance)
Did the opportunity emphasize any specific management context?
Yes. The opportunity was framed around producing science that is directly usable for public land and wildlife management, including planning and adaptive management across fragmented jurisdictions in the western U.S.
How did the opportunity describe the real-world complexity managers face?
It emphasized that managers frequently deal with simultaneous actions and disturbances (for example, development patterns, restoration efforts, vegetation treatments, and fire regimes), and therefore need research that clarifies interacting effects and supports weighing tradeoffs among species and objectives.
What is the overall goal of the funded project?
Overall, the grant aimed to generate actionable, landscape-scale science that helps agencies understand changing habitat conditions and wildlife responses in the face of development, management actions, and environmental change across the western United States.
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