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Bring Back the Natives: A Public-Private Partnership for
Restoring, Protecting, and Enhancing Populations of Native Aquatic
Species
Request for Proposals
Pre-proposal Due Date:
December 1, 2009
Full Proposal Due Date:
February 1, 2010
Proposals should include
descriptions of:
- The native aquatic species at risk or
potentially at risk, requiring protection, restoration, and/or
enhancement, and a description of their historic and current
range
- The factors or threats that have
caused a decline in the species population or other similar
populations
- The temporal significance of short (1
year or less) - or longer-term risks (2 or more years) that result or
will result from an existing or potential threat
- The impacts of no action(s) taken over
the short- or long-term
- The importance of the species as
part of the greater aquatic ecosystem and justification for why
NFWF should fund the project
- Species of special concern include but
are not limited to: Upper Colorado native fish (flannelmouth and
bluehead suckers, roundtail chub, and Colorado cutthroat trout),
Lahontan cutthroat trout, Bonneville cutthroat trout, Sierra Nevada
native fishes, Upper Green River (WY) native fishes, eulachon, Apache
trout, native brook trout and associated native aquatic species
(Chesapeake and Upper Ohio River), Russian River (CA) Coho, Snohomish
(WA) Coho, Siuslaw (OR) Coho, Klamath suckers, redband trout and Coho,
clusters of endemic southeastern native fishes, endemic southeastern
river black bass, and other native fishes identified in state, federal,
and tribal fish and wildlife agency planning documents (such as the
Forest Service’s or BLM’s Aquatic Sensitive Species Lists)
and/or by candidate and National Fish Habitat Board recognized Fish
Habitat Partnerships
- All of the on-the-ground habitat
actions needed to restore, protect, and enhance the populations and how
this proposed project either initiates or fits into larger efforts in
the watershed. Or, if
this is a stand-alone project, how it will succeed in and of itself in
protecting, restoring or enhancing the species
population(s). Please
be time specific in addressing these questions
- Whether the project supports the
implementation of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) and/or a
National Fish Habitat Board recognized or candidate Fish Habitat
Partnership. If so,
then please describe how the project meets one or more of the NFHAP
goals and how the outcomes will be measured and reported:
- Protect and maintain intact and
healthy aquatic systems
- Prevent further degradation of fish
habitats that have been adversely affected
- Reverse declines in the quality and
quantity of aquatic habitats to improve overall health of fish and other
aquatic organisms
- Increase the quality and quantity of
fish habitats that support a broad diversity of fish and other aquatic
species
- Is consistent with the four interim
fish habitat conservation strategies found at: www.fishhabitat.org/images/documents/science/Final_Interim_Strategies_Targets.pdf
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- Where applicable, the partners and
interests that will be involved in the project, including private
landowners, state fish and wildlife agencies, tribal fish and wildlife
agencies, and federal fish and wildlife agencies
- The outreach strategy and educational
values of the proposed project in tangible terms that can be used to
measure the efficacy of outreach efforts in resulting in a quantifiable
protection, restoration or enhancement of a species population or
populations
- A budget that describes how federal
funds and the non-federal match will be used to support the project's
goals
- Any nexus the project has with Bureau
of Land Management, Forest Service, or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
lands, and agency involvement in the project
- Whether the project restores
resistance or resilience to climate change in native fish populations by
restoring habitat, increasing population production, expanding habitat
for isolated populations, reducing outside stressors, enhancing riparian
shade in grazed meadows of cold water habitats, reconnecting habitats or
restoring migratory life histories
- For those projects which include a
fish passage barrier inventory component, whether barrier data will be
submitted to the national fish passage barriers database housed in the
Fish and Wildlife Service's Fish Passage Decision Support System.
Barrier inventories within the states of Alaska, Iowa and the
southwest are of particular interest
No part of a BBN matching grant, either
the federal funds from NFWF or the non-federal match, may be used
to:
- Support litigation expenses or
lobbying activities
- Cover permanent federal employee
salary expenses
- Supplement shortfalls in government
agency budgets
- Support multi-year grants due to the
nature of NFWF's annual appropriations (applicants may apply for funds
to continue previous NFWF funded projects if substantial progress has
been made on the original grant)
- Support basic research
- Support basic planning, outreach, or
education projects without an "on-the-ground" component
Application Procedure
Pre-proposal Due Date:
December 1, 2009
Full Proposal Due Date:
February 1, 2010
Applicants should log onto the
Foundation’s website: www.nfwf.org, go
to Special Grant
Programs and select the Bring Back the Natives
opportunity, and use the online process to submit a
pre-proposal (the Bring Back the Natives program webpage can also
be found at http://www.nfwf.org/bbn). Pre-proposals will be
evaluated and ranked by the BBN Review Committee according to the
priorities and criteria outlined above. In December 2009, the
strongest pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full proposal due in
February 2010. If invited for a full proposal, applicants may be
required to solicit peer reviews of their proposal by up to five
qualified and objective reviewers. The Foundation also retains the
right to require additional peer review of proposals by external
experts. Full proposal applicants will be notified of grant awards
by June 2010. For more
information or questions about the application process, please
contact:
Barrett Bohnengel
806 SW Broadway,
Suite 750
Portland, OR 97205
(503) 417-8700
barrett.bohnengel@nfwf.org
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2010 Bring Back the Natives RFP - Print Version (Adobe PDF File)
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