Description
The USGS is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner to develop an Innovation Landscape in the Southern Great Plains for the purpose of accelerating the transfer of new land management technologies to military installations in the region. The partner will possess both military and natural resource expertise, experience, and established relationships to be able to accurately identify innovation needs and scalable solutions in the natural resource focus area to support the military mission, increase regulatory flexibility for Department of War (DoW), and facilitate military use of the land. Key objectives include:
* Evaluate and develop a standardized methodology to assess military installations, communities, and landscapes to ensure successful translation and evaluation of ecosystem services, reduction of wildfire risk, community contribution, and missionscape sustainment.
* Coordinate with installations for documentation and evaluations under the methodology to aid in the identification of the suite of conservation tools and initiatives most beneficial to that missionscape and landscape.
* Provide for the implementation and monitoring manpower to help enable combined success and achievements in a unified manner.
* Apply the analysis, and lessons learned in the project in new ways to conduct large scale simplified compliance and military missionscape use.
Eligible recipients must be a participating partner of the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Program. The total estimated funding for this project is $460,000, with $100,000 available for the first budget year.