June 16, 2023

USACE Funding Opportunity: Western Bumble bee

REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF INTEREST W9126G-23-2-SOI-3250

Applicants must be a member in one of the following Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units Regions: Pacific Northwest / Alaska CESU Regions

Project Title: Mgt, Species, Pollinators, Western Bumble bee Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska

Full Announcement and Grants.gov pdf.

Responses to this Request for Statements of Interest will be used to identify potential organizations for this project.

Approximately $102,951.35 is expected to be available to support this project for Tasks 3.1-3.4 and the Optional Task for the Base Period. Additional funding may be available to the successful recipient for optional tasks and/or follow on work in subsequent years.

The primary goal of this project falls under INRMP Goal 1: Minimize conflicts between military mission, wildlife, natural resources, and land use and Objective 1.1: Achieve no-net loss of military training through coordination and management of federally protected species (e.g. ESA, MMPA, BGEPA, MBTA, etc.) or their habitats and state protected species when practicable. The Western bumble bee has been petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

The results of this project will allow the Air Force and Army to proactively anticipate the impact such a listing would have on the military mission and allow the armed services to develop monitoring methodologies to preclude critical habitat designation on JBER. The primary objective of this project is to use unified Alaska methods in Fulkerson et al. to identify distribution and occupancy of the Western bumble bee and other pollinator species on JBER for which no other survey data is available.

Statements of Interest are due by 5:00 P.M., Central Time, on 15 July 2023.