| Funding Opportunity ID: |
296151 |
| Opportunity Number: |
NOIP17AC01116 |
| Opportunity Title: |
Wolf Predation on Beavers and Moose in Voyageurs National Park |
| Opportunity Category: |
Other |
| Opportunity Category Explanation: |
OTHER – This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service’s intention to award a task agreement under a previously competed or single source justified master cooperative agreement. |
| Funding Instrument Type: |
Cooperative Agreement |
| Category of Funding Activity: |
Other (see text field entitled “Explanation of Other Category of Funding Activity” for clarification) |
| Category Explanation: |
This announcement is to provide public notice of the National Park Service’s intention to award a task agreement under a previously competed or single source justified master cooperative agreement. |
| CFDA Number(s): |
15.945 |
| Eligible Applicants: |
Others (see text field entitled “Additional Information on Eligibility” for clarification) |
| Additional Information on Eligibility: |
Eligible applications are members of Coordination Ecosystems Study Units |
| Agency Code: |
DOI-NPS |
| Agency Name: |
Department of the Interior
National Park Service |
| Posted Date: |
Aug 04, 2017 |
| Close Date: |
Aug 18, 2017 |
| Last Updated Date: |
Aug 04, 2017 |
| Award Ceiling: |
$110,000 |
| Award Floor: |
$26,250 |
| Estimated Total Program Funding: |
$26,250 |
| Expected Number of Awards: |
1 |
| Description: |
The project would examine gray wolf hunting behavior in an area with abundant beavers to better understand how the availability of vulnerable beaver prey may affect wolf predation on moose and deer. Gray wolves are widely known to prey on adults and fawns/calves of deer and moose. Beavers also make up a large portion of the diet in areas where beavers are plentiful. Recent studies in Voyageurs National Park (VNP) and surrounding area, where beaver densities are very high, demonstrated that up to 38% of the summer diet is beavers. In other areas of the state beavers are much less a part of wolf diet, generally <5-15%. Moose persist in VNP at low numbers, despite a healthy gray wolf population. Does the high abundance of beavers, a more easily killed prey item than moose, result in lower predation on moose? Likewise, how does the availability of beaver prey affect wolf predation on adult and fawn deer in summer and fall? |
| Version: |
Synopsis 1 |
