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G23AS00096: Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Closed Closed December 30, 2022 Opportunity G23AS00096 ☆ Save

This grant is closed. A newer notice from the same program is open now: Cooperative Agreement for affiliated Partner with Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (G27AS00066). Status: Closes December 7, 2026 (30 days left). It is in our archive of Geological Survey notices from 2022.

• Award ceiling$29,130
• Cost sharingNot required
• Funding typeCooperative Agreement

Key dates

Who can apply

This opportunity was open to the applicants described in the notice.

• Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education. Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program.

Is this a realistic fit?

• Past U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection awards averaged $557,251; this notice allows up to $29,130 per award.
• Most of the program's money (84% over five years) went to colleges and universities.
• No cost sharing or match is required.

What the grant funds

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Western Ecological Research Center, is offering a funding opportunity to a Member of the Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The project is titled “Understanding ecological processes for restoring rare plant species to their native habitats under increasing land use and changing regional climate”. The goal of this project is to develop conservation and management strategies for rare desert plant species covered under Clark County, Nevada Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP). The Mojave Desert in southern Nevada is home to rare plant species including white-margined beardtongue (Penstemon albomarginatus), Las Vegas bearpoppy (Arctomecon californica), Blue Diamond cholla (Cylindropuntia multigeniculata), three-corner milkvetch (Astragalus geyeri var. triquestrus), and sticky buckwheat (Eriogonum viscidulum). Habitat loss is a major threat to these protected species, and the inability of plants to migrate may require human intervention either by re-introducing plants to favorable habitats within a species’ range (assisted gene flow) or outside a species’ range where different conditions prevail (assisted colonization). USGS currently partners with Clark County to determine seed ecology and breeding systems of these species for increasing conservation seed collections (i.e., direct field harvests and propagation through soil seed bank) and to successfully re-introduce plants into habitats to augment populations. These strategies support the MSHCP mission to balance long-term conservation and recovery of the diversity of natural habitats and native plants while providing beneficial use of land by the growing population of Clark County, one of the fastest growing counties in the U.S.

Category: Science and Technology and other Research and Development.

Applying now

This notice no longer takes applications. Apply under the newer notice, G27AS00066, which is open now.

The notice on Grants.gov keeps its full text and attachments, which is useful for planning a resubmission.