National Park Service Developing Methods to Understand Elk Movements and Abundance on Winter Range | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The funding opportunity titled "National Park Service Developing Methods to Understand Elk Movements and Abundance on Winter Range" is a National Park Service (NPS) discretionary funding action focused on natural resources research, specifically improving the methods used to understand where elk move and how many elk are present on winter range habitat. The intent is to support work that strengthens the Park Service's ability to measure elk distribution and abundance during winter, which is often a critical period for wildlife management because animals are concentrated, resources are limited, and management decisions can have outsized effects on survival and ecological impacts.

This announcement is not a typical competitive grant solicitation. Instead, it is a notice of intent to make a noncompetitive (single-source) award under the National Park Service Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU). In practice, that means the NPS planned to issue a task agreement through the CESU partnership framework rather than inviting proposals from multiple applicants. The award is described as being made in accordance with Department of the Interior policy (505 Departmental Manual 2.12C), which covers circumstances where a noncompetitive award is justified. The eligible applicant is explicitly identified as Colorado State University, indicating the agency had already selected the partner institution and was publishing the notice primarily for transparency and public record rather than to open a competition.

The instrument type is a cooperative agreement, which generally indicates that NPS expected to have substantial involvement in the project compared with a standard grant. Cooperative agreements are commonly used for applied research and monitoring projects where the federal agency collaborates closely on study design, methods, data collection priorities, or interpretation to ensure the work directly supports management needs. The listing shows one expected award, reinforcing that this was a single planned agreement rather than a program with multiple awards.

Key administrative details include a Funding Opportunity Number of "NPS NOIP13AC00671" and CFDA number 15.945, which corresponds to Cooperative Research and Training Programs related to resources of the National Park System. The posted and creation date were June 24, 2013, with an original and current closing date of June 28, 2013, and an archive date of July 28, 2013. The short open period is consistent with a notice-of-intent posting for a pre-identified recipient rather than an open call for proposals. The estimated total funding amount is $63,544. The award ceiling and floor are listed as $0, which is a common data-entry pattern in federal postings when a specific total is provided but the system fields for ceiling/floor are not being used to define a competitive range.

There is no cost sharing or matching requirement, meaning the recipient was not required to contribute non-federal funds as a condition of the award. The eligibility category is listed broadly as "Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification)," but the eligibility information clarifies that this is not a request for applications and that it is a single source award to Colorado State University. For applicants or organizations outside that intended recipient, the posting effectively serves as a notification rather than an opportunity to apply.

For questions or issues accessing the full announcement, the listed point of contact is Kelly Adams, Grants Management Specialist, at 303-969-2392. This contact detail is provided for administrative support related to accessing the announcement documents, which likely contain the specific technical scope of work for developing and/or validating methods to estimate elk movements and abundance on winter range.

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