Wildlife trends analysis for 7 Chihuahuan Desert Parks | P19AS00396

Opportunity Information: Apply for P19AS00396

This funding opportunity, titled "Wildlife trends analysis for 7 Chihuahuan Desert Parks" (Funding Opportunity Number P19AS00396), is a National Park Service project under the U.S. Department of the Interior focused on natural resource management. The purpose is to support analysis of five years of wildlife monitoring data gathered across seven National Park Service units in the Chihuahuan Desert. In practical terms, the work is aimed at turning a multi-year dataset into usable findings about wildlife conditions and trends, which can then inform park-level decision-making, ongoing monitoring priorities, and broader understanding of how wildlife communities are changing in this desert region.

The project is structured as a cooperative agreement rather than a typical grant where a recipient works largely independently. A cooperative agreement generally indicates that the agency expects to be involved in the project through coordination, technical input, or shared responsibilities during implementation. The opportunity lists an award ceiling of $49,474 and anticipates a single award, suggesting a small, targeted effort designed to fund a specific scope of work rather than launch a broader competitive program.

The core activity is supporting a graduate intern who will assist with the data analysis component. While the notice does not spell out methods, "wildlife trends analysis" and "five years of wildlife monitoring data" typically imply tasks such as cleaning and organizing datasets, summarizing detections and effort, evaluating changes over time, and producing figures, tables, and written interpretations. Depending on the monitoring protocols used in the parks, this could include analyzing camera trap results, point counts, transect surveys, occupancy-style metrics, relative abundance indices, or other standardized monitoring outputs. The intention is to strengthen the parks' ability to interpret what their monitoring has been showing over multiple years, rather than leaving the information as raw field records.

Eligibility is listed broadly as "Others," but this particular posting is not open for applications. The notice states that the project will be completed by Tucson Audubon Society under a previously competed cooperative agreement and that applications will not be accepted. In other words, the competitive selection already occurred before this announcement, and this listing is effectively documenting the intent to fund or continue work with a specific partner organization that has the needed regional expertise.

Overall, the opportunity is a small, single-award, non-competitive cooperative agreement action to fund a graduate-level internship and associated analytical support, with the end goal of producing clear, defensible trend information from five years of wildlife monitoring across seven Chihuahuan Desert parks.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Wildlife trends analysis for 7 Chihuahuan Desert Parks" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 18, 2019.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Project will be completed by Tucson Audubon Society under previously competed cooperative agreement. Applications will not be accepted.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $49,474.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Others (see text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility for clarification).

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