OpportunityTitle: BLM CA Insects of Restored Coastal Dunes
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is also open to all partners under any Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) program.  CESUs are partnerships that provide research, technical assistance, and education.  If a cooperative agreement is awarded to a CESU partner under a formally negotiated Master CESU agreement, indirect costs are limited to a rate of no more than 17.5% of the indirect cost base recognized in the partner&apos;s Federal Agency-approved Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreement NICRA.
Description: Dune restoration has resulted in the increased plant diversity is an instrumental recovery component of federally endangered beach layia -Layia carnosa- and Humboldt Bay wallflower -Erysimum menziesii-. BLM-managed dunes in Humboldt County have become excellent examples of functioning native dune ecosystems. Restored dunes are often adjacent to dunes dominated by European beachgrass -Ammophila arenaria- which changes the dune morphology and allows other plants species such as yellow bush lupine -Lupinus arboreus- to become established. Yellow bush lupine is a nitrogen fixer which will lead to further changes in the dune plant community.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: lparker@blm.gov
GrantorContactText: Leona Parker (530) 252-5338&lt;br/&gt;leona_parker@blm.gov&lt;br/&gt;