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Opportunity Summary:

This grant opportunity, titled "Study movements of wild hogs" (Funding Opportunity Number P15AS00293), is a National Park Service cooperative agreement effort focused on understanding how wild hogs move across the landscapes of Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area (BISO) and Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GRSM). The core purpose is to collect movement information that can be used to strengthen disease modeling and improve practical control efforts. In plain terms, the project is meant to answer where hogs travel, how far they range, what corridors they use, and how their movement patterns affect the risk of disease spread and the ability of land managers to locate and remove them.

A key emphasis of the project is the connection between real-world field data and management decision-making. The National Park Service notes that better movement data will make existing models more capable and more useful, which matters because disease modeling depends heavily on knowing animal contact patterns, dispersal distances, and how animals use different habitat types and elevations. Beyond disease concerns, the same information is expected to support on-the-ground control operations and law enforcement needs, such as understanding when and where hogs are most likely to be present, identifying areas where illegal activities could overlap with hog presence, and improving the efficiency of surveillance and response efforts.

The announcement also makes clear that the results are intended to feed directly into updated guidance and planning documents. Specifically, the movement findings are expected to be used to revise the GRSM wild hog control guidelines and the GRSM wild hog management folio. In addition, the project is expected to support development of a wild hog control strategy and plan for BISO, indicating that Big South Fork may be building or refining a more formalized program and will rely on this research to shape priorities, tactics, and resource allocation.

Administratively, this is listed as a discretionary opportunity under the Natural Resources funding activity category, using a Cooperative Agreement as the funding instrument. There is no cost-sharing or matching requirement stated. However, the most important practical detail for prospective applicants is that this notice is not a request for applications. It is a notice of intent to award funding without full and open competition under an existing cooperative agreement (P14AC00882) with the University of Tennessee, acting as a partner through the Southern Appalachian Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. In other words, the purpose of the posting is to provide public notice that the National Park Service plans to fund this work through a specific partner arrangement rather than solicit new proposals through an open competition.

The posting dates reflect that it was published on August 11, 2015, with an original and current closing date of August 21, 2015, and an archive date of September 30, 2015. The funding fields show an estimated total funding amount of 0 and award ceiling and floor of 0, which often indicates that the public notice record is being used to document the intent to fund and the vehicle for the award, rather than to advertise a competed grant with a clearly stated dollar amount.

Eligibility categories listed in the record include public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, private institutions of higher education, and "others" as described in additional eligibility language, but the accompanying eligibility statement clarifies that the intended recipient is the University of Tennessee through the CESU partnership framework. For anyone needing further details or having trouble accessing the announcement, the contact listed is Brian Straka at the National Park Service (865-436-1217, BrianStraka@nps.gov).

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