Funder: Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest
Due Dates: April 25, 2025 (Questions) | May 2, 2025 (Full Applications Due)
Funding Amounts: Up to $9,000,000 total over 5 years; one award anticipated; no cost share required.
Summary: Supports large-scale resilience and conservation actions addressing drought, fire, and flood threats, with a focus on watershed health and desert tortoise recovery in the Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape.
Key Information: This opportunity is sole-sourced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF); only NFWF is eligible to apply.
Description
This cooperative agreement funds a comprehensive program to enhance ecological resilience and species recovery in the Mojave Desert Sentinel Landscape, particularly at and around the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC) Twentynine Palms, California. The project targets landscape-scale threats such as drought, wildfire, and flooding, and supports the recovery of the threatened Agassiz’s desert tortoise. Activities include watershed-scale interventions to improve stormwater infiltration, groundwater recharge, soil health, habitat restoration, wildland fire risk reduction, and heat mitigation. The agreement also supports monitoring, data analysis, and implementation of the Mojave Desert Tortoise Recovery Implementation Plan under the Recovery and Sustainment Partnership (RASP) initiative.
Due Dates
- Questions/Requests for Information: April 25, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
- Full Applications Due: May 2, 2025, 2:00 PM PDT
- Notification of Selection: May 14, 2025 (anticipated)
- Start Date of Cooperative Agreement: May 25, 2025 (anticipated)
Funding Amount
- Total Funding Available: Up to $9,000,000
- Base Award: ~$8,000,000 (60 months)
- Option 1: Up to $1,000,000 (concurrent with base period, FY25)
- Number of Awards: 1
- Period of Performance: 60 months (5 years) from date of award
- Cost Sharing/Matching: Not required
Eligibility
- Eligible Applicant: Sole-sourced to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF). No other organizations are eligible; applications from others will not be reviewed.
- Program Manager Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology, natural resources management, ecology, or similar field
- At least 3 years of professional experience managing conservation funding programs, or 2 years in such a role plus 1 year of relevant conservation work in the Southwest
Application Process
- Application Package: Available via Grants.gov (Funding Opportunity Number: N62473-25-2-0002)
- Submission: Applications must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov or by email to the designated contacts.
- Required Forms:
- SF-424 (R&R)
- Research & Related Senior/Key Personnel (with resumes)
- Research & Related Budget (detailed cost breakdown, including Option 1)
- SF-LLL (if applicable)
- Proposal Content:
- Credentials of key personnel
- Scientific approach (max 4 pages)
- Detailed budget and justification
- Reporting: Annual status and fiscal reports required; additional deliverables as specified in the Statement of Objectives.
Additional Information
- Scope of Work: Includes both resilience activities (e.g., watershed improvements, fire/flood mitigation) and species recovery (desert tortoise monitoring, habitat modeling, headstarting, and implementation of recovery actions).
- Collaboration: The recipient will coordinate with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Department of Defense, and other partners.
- Insurance: Recipient must maintain at least $1,000,000 in liability insurance (see Statement of Objectives for details).
- Data and Publications: Data generated is generally the property of the U.S. Marine Corps; publication rights are retained by the recipient with required acknowledgments.
- Compliance: All activities must comply with relevant federal laws (e.g., Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act).
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