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Opportunity Summary:

This funding opportunity, titled "Science Applications Wildlife Management Institute" (Funding Opportunity Number F12AS00016), is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service discretionary cooperative agreement focused on natural resources and landscape-scale conservation. It is not an open competition in the usual sense; instead, it is explicitly described as a continuation of a single-source award to the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI), a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. The Service is using a cooperative agreement mechanism, which generally indicates substantial involvement by the federal agency in carrying out the project work, rather than a more hands-off grant structure.

The purpose of continuing the single-source agreement is to support and advance Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) efforts in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Region 2, specifically including the Gulf Coast Prairie LCC, Great Plains LCC, and Desert LCC. The underlying intent is to ensure active, coordinated conservation of priority fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats across large landscapes that cross state boundaries and, in this case, connect to international conservation considerations. The announcement emphasizes that these LCCs require consistent leadership and outreach, and that maintaining momentum is important for setting landscape priorities and delivering conservation outcomes.

A central justification for the single-source continuation is that WMI is presented as uniquely qualified to do this work because of its extensive multistate and international landscape conservation experience. The announcement points to WMI's integral role in the North Atlantic and Appalachian LCC process as evidence of proven capacity, and it argues that the approaches and successes achieved in the Northeast can be replicated in the Southwest. It also highlights the expectation of a long-term relationship with Mexico in at least one of these LCC efforts, framing WMI's international experience as a particularly important differentiator that supports the decision not to compete the award. The agency states that running a competition could slow down conservation progress and negatively affect the Service's mission, particularly in establishing LCC landscape priorities and conducting outreach activities.

The funding details are straightforward and unusually fixed: one expected award totaling $5,000,000, with the award floor and ceiling both set at $5,000,000, indicating a single award at that amount rather than a range of possible funding levels. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The CFDA listing provided is 15.669, Cooperative Landscape Conservation, which aligns with the LCC-related focus of the work.

In terms of timing, the opportunity was posted and created on May 1, 2012, with an original and current closing date of May 7, 2012. Eligibility is limited to nonprofits with IRS 501(c)(3) status, other than institutions of higher education, though the narrative makes clear that the recipient is intended to be WMI as a continuation action rather than a broadly competed program. For further details or access issues, the announcement directs applicants and interested parties to contact Melanie Dabovich at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (505-248-6277, melaniedabovich@fws.gov), and it references Grants.gov as the location of the full announcement materials.

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