Opportunity Information: Apply for F17AS00195
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Midwest Region, released this discretionary grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F17AS00195) under the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative program to support on-the-ground field assessments of aquatic barriers, with a strong emphasis on dams and their effects on fish movement. The work is focused on tributaries within the Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario watersheds. The basic idea is to document where barriers exist, how passable they are for fish and other aquatic organisms, and what those structures mean for connectivity across entire watersheds.
A central purpose of the project is to strengthen and expand an existing aquatic barrier database by adding consistent, comparable field data from across the Great Lakes basin. The Service is looking for proposals that will collect standardized information that can be directly integrated into the barrier database, improving regional planning and decision-making. The data are intended to support better estimates of aquatic barrier removal costs, understand cumulative passability (how multiple barriers together shape connectivity within a watershed), and highlight infrastructure maintenance or safety challenges associated with aging dams and other barrier structures. In practice, this kind of dataset helps partners prioritize which barriers to address first, where removal or modification would yield the biggest ecological benefit, and what the likely cost and complexity of those actions could be.
An important requirement is compatibility with an ongoing and already standardized assessment effort in the Lake Michigan watershed. By fall 2017, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and partners were expected to have completed dam assessments for the entire Lake Michigan basin. FWS is trying to extend that same approach across the other Great Lakes watersheds so that, ultimately, the Great Lakes basin has a comprehensive, basin-wide assessment using common methods and comparable data fields. Because of that, proposals must complement the Lake Michigan assessment and must commit to collecting data that match, as closely as possible, the Lake Michigan protocols and database structure. The emphasis is not just on collecting new information, but on collecting it in a way that is consistent enough to allow basin-scale comparisons and combined analyses.
The opportunity is structured as a grant, with an award ceiling of $150,000 and an expected total of three awards. Eligible applicants include state governments, county governments, city or township governments, and federally recognized Native American tribal governments. The funding activity falls under natural resources, and the CFDA number associated with the program is 15.669. The original closing date for applications was June 16, 2017, and the opportunity was created on April 17, 2017.
Overall, this grant opportunity is aimed at filling a major regional data gap by completing coordinated, field-based barrier and fish passability assessments in Great Lakes tributaries outside the Lake Michigan watershed. The intended outcome is a more complete, standardized Great Lakes basin barrier dataset that can be used by agencies and partners to evaluate connectivity, estimate project costs, prioritize restoration and fish passage investments, and plan for long-term infrastructure challenges associated with dams and other aquatic barriers.Apply for F17AS00195
- The Fish and Wildlife Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.669.
- This funding opportunity was created on 2017-04-17.
- Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-06-16. (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 $150,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 3 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments, County governments, City or township governments, Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized).
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