Deadline: 21-Oct-21
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is soliciting proposals for projects that enhance and improve Habitat Quality in Western Big Game Migration Corridors and Habitat Connectivity 2022.
Projects will promote robust, sustainable populations of big game such as mule deer and pronghorn, have positive effects on a wide diversity of other species and implement strategies that provide for increased habitat connectivity and climate resiliency.
Priorities
All proposals must outline specifically how projects will directly address state game and fish (wildlife) department priorities as identified in the state plans, or specific priority projects on tribal lands, to conserve or restore habitat and measurably contribute to the sustainability of local and regional big-game populations and accomplishment of program priorities which include:
- Restoring degraded priority habitat, stopover areas and migration corridors by activities identified in the state plans, or comparable tribal plans, such as removing encroaching trees from sagebrush ecosystems, rehabilitating areas damaged by fire or treating exotic/invasive vegetation to improve the quality and value of these areas to big game and other wildlife.
- Work cooperatively with diverse partners to achieve permissive fencing measures, including potentially modifying (via smooth wire), removing (if no longer necessary), installing if serving to direct big game movement out of harm’s way or seasonally adapting (seasonal lay down) fencing if proven to impede movement of big game through priority migration corridors or habitat.
- Implement measures such as conservation easements and management agreements or other actions to protect bottlenecks within corridors and other areas within priority habitat or stopover areas threatened by fragmentation.
- Utilize other proven actions necessary to improve the habitat quality or restore priority big-game habitat, stopover areas or migration corridors across the West.
Funding Information
The 2022 Improving Habitat Quality in Western Big Game Migration Corridors and Habitat Connectivity RFP has approximately $2 million available for the effort.
Geographic Focus
Only projects proposed in the state-identified focal areas within Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming will be eligible for funding.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible applicants include nonprofit 501(c) organizations, U.S. Federal government agencies, state government agencies, local governments, municipal governments, and tribal governments and organizations.
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