OpportunityTitle: BLM C A Amargosa Vole Conservation and Habitat Resiliency
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is also open to all partners under any Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit 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: Amargosa vole -Microtus californicus scirpensis, vole, is a narrow endemic mammal that is listed as endangered under the federal and State Endangered Species Acts. The vole is only found in desert marshes in Shoshone and Tecopa California along the Amargosa River. In 2013 vole populations suffered a dramatic decline due in part to drought and agencies decided to remove a few voles form the wild and start an assurance colony at the University of California Davis to guard against extinction. BLM is currently working in partnership with University of California Davis and Berkley, California Fish and Wildlife- CDFW, United State Fish and Wildlife Service -FWS, United States Geological Survey -USGS, Amargosa Conservancy -AC, The Nature Conservancy -TNC, Purdue University, and private land owners. In 2011, CDFW conducted surveys and discovered a mite infesting voles in a key habitat patch. In 2012 until recently CDFW, Davis, and USGS led periodic vole surveys.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: lparker@blm.gov
GrantorContactText: GMO Leona Parker (530) 252-5338&lt;br/&gt;leona_parker@blm.gov&lt;br/&gt;