NOTICE OF INTENT: Collaborative Wildlife and Fisheries Research, Management, Outreach and Education in NPS Park Units | P19AS00323

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This funding opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) notice of intent to make a single cooperative agreement focused on coordinated wildlife and fisheries work in National Park Service park units in Colorado. The central aim is to formalize and strengthen day-to-day cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service and the State of Colorado through Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) and its Director. Rather than funding an open, nationwide competition, the notice is framed around an interagency partnership approach where NPS and CPW jointly plan and carry out work that benefits fish, wildlife, and associated habitats across jurisdictional boundaries.

The agreement emphasizes practical coordination: joint participation in projects, consistent and timely communication, aligned management decisions, and collaborative actions related to fish and wildlife management and broader natural resource stewardship. A key theme is that wildlife and fish do not recognize administrative borders, so effective management requires agencies to work together across NPS lands, CPW lands, and other areas throughout Colorado. By coordinating research, management actions, education, and outreach, the partners can reduce duplication, share data and expertise, and improve outcomes for species and habitats that are influenced by both state and federal management.

Another major purpose is supporting conservation at scales that match the biology of species, especially for threatened, endangered, or otherwise at-risk wildlife. The notice highlights that maintaining these species across their full range often depends on coordinated planning and implementation across multiple landownerships and authorities. In other words, successful conservation is not just a park issue or a state issue; it is a landscape issue, and the agreement is intended to create a structure for joint strategies that can be sustained over time.

The opportunity explicitly points to a wide range of species that may be addressed through interagency collaboration, illustrating the broad scope of potential work. Examples listed include large mammals such as black bear, elk, deer, bighorn sheep, moose, and mountain goat; sensitive carnivores such as lynx and wolverine; native fish such as cutthroat trout; and other at-risk or climate-sensitive species including boreal toad, pika, and ptarmigan. These examples suggest potential activities could include coordinated monitoring, population and habitat assessments, disease surveillance and response, habitat restoration, connectivity planning, visitor and public education, and other management or research actions that benefit shared resource goals.

Administratively, the listing identifies the instrument as a cooperative agreement, which typically indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency in planning or executing the project activities, consistent with a close working partnership between NPS and CPW. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary and under the natural resources activity area, with CFDA number 15.954. The posting shows an award ceiling of $1 and an expectation of one award, which strongly signals that this is primarily a formal notice tied to a specific anticipated partnership action rather than a traditional competitive grant with multiple awards and a defined funding pool. The notice was created June 26, 2019, with an original closing date of July 7, 2019, under funding opportunity number P19AS00323. Eligibility is listed as "Others" with additional eligibility details referenced in the original announcement, again consistent with a targeted intergovernmental or partner-specific agreement structure.

Overall, the opportunity is best understood as a mechanism for NPS and Colorado Parks and Wildlife to coordinate and jointly implement research, management, outreach, and education efforts that improve stewardship of wildlife, fisheries, and habitats across Colorado, especially where animals, ecological processes, and conservation needs span park boundaries and state-managed lands.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "NOTICE OF INTENT: Collaborative Wildlife and Fisheries Research, Management, Outreach and Education in NPS Park Units" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.954.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jun 26, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 07, 2019. (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 $1.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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