OpportunityTitle: Oldman Watershed Council Landscape Patterns Environmental Quality Analysis
CategoryExplanation: This is a Notice of Intent to award a Single Source Grant agreement to Province of Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development for the purpose of Oldman Watershed Council Landscape Patterns Environmental Quality Analysis.
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This Single Source Award is being awarded in accordance with Department of the Interior Policy 505 DM 2.14 B [(4), Unique Qualifications], which allows for award without competition to an applicant. This recipient and project meet this criteria due to the recipient being entirely outside the US and conducted a Alberta led competitive process in which this program participated.
Description: The deliverables will include: A synthesis paper summarizing findings from the published literature (seminal works, peer-reviewed and secondary source materials) that identify relationships between anthropogenic landscape patterns and land use and any part of the environment. Scope is western Canada and the western coterminous USA (Dakotas west). A project report that includes: - A master list and a master map, coding the location of each finding cited; - Results of the analysis distinguishing any finding showing a causation link between landscape patterns and environmental quality from those that indicate correlation. - Categorization of findings by land use, landscape pattern, natural ecoregion and sub-region, scale and seasonality; - An annotated bibliography; and - A summary of methodology.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: yvette_converse@fws.gov
GrantorContactText: Yvette Converse, 406-994-7486&lt;br/&gt;yvette_converse@fws.gov&lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: This Single Source Award is being awarded in accordance with Department of the Interior Policy 505 DM 2.14 B [(4), Unique Qualifications] (see Additional Information in eligibility Section)