Opportunity Information: Apply for F18AS00249
The Adaptive Science grant opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number F18AS00249) is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) cooperative agreement designed to support applied, high-impact science that helps the agency make stronger conservation and regulatory decisions. At its core, the opportunity is tied to the FWS Strategic Habitat Conservation framework, which is an adaptive management approach that uses the best available science to set conservation goals, choose actions, and then measure whether those actions actually produce measurable improvements in fish and wildlife populations. The program emphasizes practical science that can directly inform management and mitigation, especially in situations where future environmental change and ongoing threats could push species away from healthy, sustainable levels.
The opportunity is built around the idea that conservation decisions should be continuously improved through a feedback loop: using population and habitat data, ecological modeling, and focused monitoring and assessment to predict outcomes, implement targeted strategies, and then evaluate results. By improving the ability to forecast how species and habitats respond to environmental change, FWS can concentrate habitat conservation and other management work where it is most effective, rather than spreading effort thinly or relying on assumptions that cannot be tested. In addition to planning and prioritization, this science foundation is also presented as essential to the agency's ability to defend its decisions, including regulatory determinations, biological opinions, and conservation recommendations provided to land managers.
From an applicant and funding standpoint, this was a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, using a cooperative agreement mechanism, which typically implies substantial involvement or collaboration with the agency during the project. The activity category is Natural Resources (CFDA 15.670). Eligibility was limited to nonprofit organizations, including both 501(c)(3) nonprofits and non-501(c)(3) nonprofits, as long as they are not institutions of higher education. The opportunity anticipated a single award, with an award ceiling of $385,575. The posting dates indicate it was created on July 19, 2018, with an original closing date of July 26, 2018, suggesting a short application window.
In practical terms, the grant was aimed at generating actionable scientific products and evidence that can be used in real-world conservation decisions, particularly where management choices must be justified with strong, defensible science. Projects aligned with this opportunity would be expected to contribute directly to predicting and measuring population outcomes, improving the targeting and effectiveness of habitat and species management, and addressing urgent threats where mitigation or management action is needed to maintain desired wildlife and fish population conditions.Apply for F18AS00249
- The Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Adaptive Science" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.670.
- This funding opportunity was created on Jul 19, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 26, 2018. (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 $385,575.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education, Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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