Project Database

Ecosystem Services Valuation Pilot Study

Project ID: G10AC00053 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $60,000 Total Funding: $179,828 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project identifies valuation methods and tools that may be appropriate for use in decision-making for public land management within the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and identifies possible synergies of leverage points within the BLM’s decision-making process for public land management.

August 30, 2021

Ecosystem Services Valuation Pilot Study for the Moeb Master Leasing Plan

Project ID: G13AC00152 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $45,000 Total Funding: $99,602 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This effort is focused on: 1) the potential risk of surface and shallow groundwater resources becoming contaminated by mineral development activities, and 2) identifying the values at risk (i.e. such as steams, springs, and shallow aquifer wells) rather than quantitative estimation of contamination…

Educating Students on Wildlife Sampling Methods and Determining Prey Use of Mesocarnivores at Crater Lake National Park

Project ID: P18AC00651 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,767 Total Funding: $5,767 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Crater Lake National Park (CRLA or the Park) is home to a diversity of wildlife species that includes both eastern and western cascade species from high and low elevations. Each year, the NPS wildlife team at CRLA employs seasonal wildlife technicians to assist…

Effect of brush mastication on the below ground mycorrhizal community in a mixed hardwood chaparral

Project ID: J8W07060003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $97,800 Total Funding: $97,800 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This proposal addresses an important local knowledge gap associated with fuels treatment. Much of the vegetation at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area is a dense fire prone chaparral. Prescribed burns are limited by threat of wildfire and by narrow climatic conditions appropriate for burnings….

Effect of Fuel Amendments

Project ID: HAF063S02 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $15,000 Total Funding: $15,000 [project-data-part-2]

Effectiveness of Physician-recommended Nature Prescriptions for Cardiac Rehabilitation in Diverse Human Populations Under Climate Change

Project ID: 23-JV-11261956-011 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $150,000 Total Funding: $150,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: We will examine the efficacy of “nature prescriptions”—physician-prescribed time in nature, including urban forests, ordered as part of patients’ care, with the goal of improving health outcomes following cardiac events such as myocardial infarction (heart attacks) and heart surgery. We will conduct a…

January 22, 2024

Effectiveness of thinning-and­ burning treatments on persistence of Northern Idaho Ground Squirrels

Project ID: F19AC00296 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $50,000 Total Funding: $50,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Funds under this award are to be used to document whether thin-and-bum habitat treatments increase annual reproductive output, body mass, overwinter survival, or natal recruitment of Northern Idaho Ground Squirrels (NIDGS). Funding these positions is critical towards carrying out actions identified in the…

August 30, 2021

Effects of Cattle Grazing on Sage-grouse Habitat & Demographic Traits

Project ID: L20AC00320 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $150,000 Total Funding: $150,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: 

January 22, 2024

Effects of Fire Management on Carbon Sequestration in Sequoia Kings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks

Project ID: J8W07090027 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $56,400 Total Funding: $56,400 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The National Park Service (NPS) will collaborate with the University of Washington at Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park (SEKI) and Yosemite National Park (YOSE) to develop estimates of carbon pools sequestered above ground in trees, shrubs, and surface fuels. Existing plot data will…

August 30, 2021

Effects of Off-highway Vehicle Use on the Northern Spotted Owl

Project ID: 05-JV-11052007-028 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $144,007 Total Funding: $483,949 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Purpose of the project is to collaborate with the university, which will provide technical assistance to forest service biologists in determining the effects of off-highway vehicle (OHV) use on the northern spotted owl by measuring species response to OHVs at three different biological…

Elwha River Revegetation 2013 – Plant Performance Study

Project ID: P13AC00833 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $4,950 Total Funding: $4,950 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the University of Washington (UW) and the National Park Service (NPS) to support monitoring in 2013 of the revegetation efforts in the former Lake Mills reservoir at Olympic National Park. Dam removal began in September 2011 in…

Enable Public and Research Access to the Peter Misch Geology Collection through Cataloging and Interpretive Products

Project ID: P17AC01050 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $33,483 Total Funding: $33,483 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project addresses cataloging and interpretation of the Peter Misch Geology Collection, which is part of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex (NOCA) museum collection. The collection was received by NOCA from the UW Earth Sciences Department in 2003. The collection reflects…

Encroaching Juniper and Sage-Grouse Monitoring

Project ID: L12AC20517 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,969 Total Funding: $124,967 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Project entered with $24,969.

Endophytes to Reduce Blister Rust Severity in Whitebark Pine at Crater Lake National Park, OR

Project ID: J8W07090004 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $5,000 Total Funding: $17,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: To determine whether endophytes can increase resistance of whitebark pine to blister rust. This new technology could reduce the impact of white pine blister rust and, potentially, climate change on these high-elevation whitebark pine communities. CRLA NP whitebark pine stock will be used…

Energetics, Survival, and Dispersal of Dall’s Sheep Rams Under Differing Harvest Management Strategies

Project ID: P14AC01780 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $57,713 Total Funding: $118,913 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Approximately 25-35% of Alaska’s Dali’s sheep population (Ovis clalli dali,) occurs within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve (WRST). Protection of Dali’s sheep populations and habitat is specifically stated In WRST’s enabling legislation. Subsistence harvest of DalI’s sheep is allowed in the park…

Engage Professional and Citizen Scientists to Survey the Biota of Olympic National Park – Coordination and Logistics

Project ID: J8W07070027 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,000 Total Funding: $24,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The work supported by this task agreement is part of a larger collaborative project involving the National Park Service, the University of Washington and Oregon State University. It will engage professional and citizen scientists to conduct biological surveys of invertebrates, non-vascular plants and/or…

Engage Professional and Citizen Scientists to Survey the Biota of Olympic National Park –Taxonomy and Specimen Management

Project ID: J8W07070029 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $36,000 Total Funding: $36,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This collaborative project will engage professional and citizen scientists to conduct biological surveys of invertebrates, non-vascular plants and/or fungi in Olympic National Park, document the successes and challenges of the process, including engaging professional and citizen scientists, and document the scientific survey results….

Enhanced Monitoring and Data Synthesis of Sagebrush Steppe Communities in Upper Columbia Basin Network Parks

Project ID: P13AC00136 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $76,463 Total Funding: $215,741 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project to support enhanced monitoring and synthesis of existing monitoring data for sagebrush steppe communities in 5 parks of the Upper Columbia Basin Network (UCBN): City of Rocks National Reserve (CIRO), Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve…

Enhanced Monitoring for Improved Management and Restoration Decision-making in the Wetland Camas Prairies of the Upper Columbia Basin Network

Project ID: P13AC00860 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $47,052 Total Funding: $47,052 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project to support enhanced camas prairie monitoring and synthesis of existing camas lily monitoring data in the Weippe Prairie Unit of Nez Perce National Historical Park (NEPE) and in Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO), within the Upper Columbia Basin…

Enhancing the Delivery of Biological Information in the NBII

Project ID: 05096HS003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $86,500 Total Funding: $210,560 [project-data-part-2]