Research on Golden Eagle Ecology in the U.S. Deserts (Mojave, Great Basin, Sonoran) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) funding opportunity F14AS00202, titled "Research on Golden Eagle Ecology in the U.S. Deserts (Mojave, Great Basin, Sonoran)," was a discretionary science and technology research award offered as a cooperative agreement under CFDA 15.608 (Fish and Wildlife Management Assistance). The core purpose was to support applied research on golden eagles in major desert ecosystems of the western United States, specifically the Mojave, Great Basin, and Sonoran Deserts, in ways that would directly inform conservation and management decisions. The opportunity sits within a broader effort by FWS and partner state agencies to coordinate golden eagle conservation across jurisdictions and produce defensible science that can be used in planning, permitting, and on-the-ground mitigation.

A key backdrop to the award is the formal coordination structure described in the announcement. FWS, along with California and Nevada state wildlife agencies, established a golden eagle working group, reflecting an ongoing, multi-agency push to share data, align priorities, and reduce duplication. Separately, FWS created a Western Golden Eagle Conservation Team representing Service Regions 1, 2, 6, and 8. This was described as a nine-person team operating through fiscal year 2015, with a projection of about $1.2 million available for team-related project work. The announcement makes clear that FWS expected many supported efforts to center on mitigation options that are scientifically supportable, meaning research outputs were intended to be practical, evidence-based, and suitable for use in evaluating and designing measures to avoid, minimize, or offset impacts to golden eagles.

In practical terms, the research emphasis implied by the title and description points toward desert-specific golden eagle ecology: how eagles use habitat across these arid landscapes, where nesting and foraging areas are concentrated, what drives territory occupancy and reproductive success, how survival and movement patterns vary seasonally, and how landscape change affects those dynamics. Because the notice highlights mitigation, the likely value of the work is in generating data and analyses that can be translated into management tools, such as identifying high-value areas, clarifying risk factors to eagles, improving predictions of where impacts might occur, and evaluating which mitigation approaches are most effective under desert conditions. The cooperative agreement instrument also signals an expectation of substantial involvement by the agency during the project, typically meaning collaboration on study design, data needs, deliverables, and application of findings to agency decisions.

Administratively, the opportunity was posted May 27, 2014, and is explicitly labeled as a Notice of Intent rather than an open competitive solicitation. It had already been awarded to the Board of Regents, Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE), and therefore the "closing date" fields reflect that it was not open for new applications. The award profile was very specific: one expected award, total estimated funding of $79,000, with an award ceiling and floor both set at $79,000, indicating a single fixed-size award. There was no cost-sharing or matching requirement. Eligibility is listed as "Others," but the eligibility notes clarify that the recipient had already been selected (the Board of Regents, NSHE).

The awarding agency was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the listed contact for access issues with the full announcement was Misty Bradford, Cooperative Agreements Assistant, at (530) 842-5763. Overall, the opportunity reflects a targeted investment in desert golden eagle research tied to coordinated western conservation efforts, with an explicit intent to produce management-ready science, especially around credible mitigation strategies.

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