Opportunity Information: Apply for F18AS00136
The Great Lakes Piping Plover Projects grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00136) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funding action under the Department of the Interior focused on practical, on-the-ground work that helps recover a federally listed species in the Great Lakes region: the endangered Great Lakes population of the Piping Plover. It is tied to the broader goal of supporting Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) priority species recovery by funding key actions that directly improve survival and reproduction, strengthen habitat conditions, and maintain the staffing needed to carry out these conservation tasks during the 2018 to 2019 work period. The assistance is provided as a cooperative agreement, meaning the agency expects to be actively involved in the work rather than simply issuing a pass-through award.
This notice is not a competitive, open application program. Instead, it is a single-source notice of intent to award, meaning the Service planned to fund specific organizations without soliciting proposals from the general public. The awards were justified under federal policy provisions referenced in the notice (505 DM 2.14B.2 and 4), and the anticipated recipients named in the announcement were Lake Superior State University and the Detroit Zoological Society. The opportunity lists an original closing date of May 21, 2018, but because it is a single-source intent to award, the date functions more like a public notice deadline rather than an invitation for applicants to submit proposals. The expected number of awards was two, with an award ceiling of $110,000.
Programmatically, the funded work centers on actions that are widely recognized as essential for recovering small, vulnerable shorebird populations. Activities described include restoring, enhancing, or creating habitat used by Piping Plovers, as well as paying for project staff time to perform specialized field and recovery work. One of the two awards is aimed at continuing critical monitoring for the endangered Great Lakes Piping Plover population, which typically includes tracking nesting attempts, productivity, threats, and management needs across breeding sites. The second award supports an intervention strategy used when natural reproduction is at risk: collecting abandoned eggs, incubating them in captivity, rearing chicks through the fledging stage, and then releasing fledged birds back into the wild to bolster the population. In short, the opportunity is designed to keep core recovery operations running, combining field monitoring and habitat support with hands-on captive incubation and rearing when needed to prevent the loss of offspring and improve overall population outcomes.
Administratively, the opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding within the Environment and Natural Resources activity area and is associated with CFDA number 15.662. Eligibility is described broadly as "Others" with additional clarification referenced in the full notice, but in practice the single-source structure makes clear that the intended recipients were predetermined for these awards.Apply for F18AS00136
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Great Lakes Piping Plover Projects" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.662.
- This funding opportunity was created on May 14, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 21, 2018 There is not an application process for this funding opportunity. This is a notice of intent to award a single source grant to the Lake Superior State University and Detroit Zoological Society under justification 505DM 2.14B.2 and 4.. (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 $110,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 2 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).
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