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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number G14AS00085) is a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) award aimed at supporting applied wildlife research in Colorado. It is issued as a cooperative agreement, which means the selected recipient is expected to work closely with USGS scientists rather than operating entirely independently. The focus is on science and technology and other research and development activities, with a single award anticipated and an estimated total funding amount of $11,875. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement listed.

The core purpose of the project is to collect high-quality demographic data on a boreal toad population in Colorado that appears to be free of disease and is believed to be the largest such population in the state. The work is designed to generate estimates of key demographic parameters, which typically include things like population size, survival rates, recruitment, and other measures that help describe how a population is doing over time. Because amphibians have experienced widespread declines globally, and because disease (notably chytrid fungus) has been a major driver of many losses, a disease-free and robust population is especially valuable for understanding what conditions support persistence and recovery.

The project is also explicitly tied to management decision-making. The data produced will be used by the Boreal Toad Conservation Team, which is led by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, to inform conservation actions and strategy. In addition to local and state value, the USGS notes that the results are intended to contribute to the broader scientific understanding of amphibian decline, meaning the project is meant to generate information that can be compared with other toad and amphibian populations elsewhere.

Methodologically, the recipient is expected to conduct field work using a capture-mark-recapture sampling framework along with visual encounter survey protocols. Capture-mark-recapture approaches are widely used in wildlife biology to estimate population size and survival by capturing individuals, marking them in a standardized way, and then resampling to see which individuals are encountered again. Visual encounter surveys are structured searches for animals along defined routes or within defined areas, used to document presence, relative abundance, and sometimes life stage distribution. Together, these approaches are intended to produce defensible demographic estimates rather than simple observational counts.

Eligibility is limited: applicants must be participating partners of the Rocky Mountain CESU Program. CESUs are formal partnerships that connect federal agencies with universities, tribes, and other eligible organizations to provide research, technical assistance, and education. In this case, the opportunity is categorized on the listing as “Others,” but the controlling requirement is that the applicant must be an official Rocky Mountain CESU partner.

Key administrative details include a posted date of June 5, 2014, with an original and current closing date of June 17, 2014, and an archive date of September 5, 2014. The CFDA program number referenced is 15.808 (U.S. Geological Survey Research and Data Collection). Additional details were made available through Grants.gov, and the point of contact listed for access issues was Faith Graves (fgraves@usgs.gov, 703-648-7356).

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