OpportunityTitle: Private Lands Day 2011
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: This opportunity is not a request for applications. The determination not to compete is based on Department policy (505 DM 2.14, B.(4) Unique Qualifications - The applicant is uniquely qualified to perform the activity based upon a variety of demonstrable factors such as location, property ownership, voluntary support capacity, cost-sharing ability, if applicable, technical expertise, or other such unique qualifications.See Notice of Intent justification under Full Announcement
Description: &quot;The Sand County Foundation, Inc. meets the criteria based on its 10-year efforts to establish and to communicate on a regular basis with a network of private landowners, particularly as they are located in USFWS&apos; Regions 3 and 6. The Foundation has the logistical capacity and trackrecord for convening mutually affected parties; for conducting meetings with specific outcomes like the development of cooperative conversation plans anticipated; and for promoting, through websites and other distribution methods, the integration of private landowners with public agency conservation practitioners and long-term habitat restoration interests and public policy goals. Finally, the Foundation offers cost-sharing capability to maximize the Federal funding invested.&quot;
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GrantorContactText: Dallas Miner &lt;br/&gt;Fish and Wildlife Biologist &lt;br/&gt;Phone 703-358-2330