Tracking the effects on vegetation and fuels of the 1947 Bar Harbor, Maine fire through time: 1948-2016 | NPS 17 NERO 0112

Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 17 NERO 0112

The opportunity titled "Tracking the effects on vegetation and fuels of the 1947 Bar Harbor, Maine fire through time: 1948-2016" is a National Park Service (NPS) discretionary funding action focused on natural resource research. The core intent is to support work that examines how vegetation and wildfire fuels changed over the long term following the historic 1947 fire in the Bar Harbor, Maine area (associated with what is now Acadia National Park). The timeframe named in the title, 1948 through 2016, signals a multi-decade, retrospective tracking effort, likely relying on historical records and long-term ecological data to understand post-fire recovery and fuel dynamics across many decades.

This notice is explicitly not an open call for proposals. It is a public notice that NPS intends to make an award as a task agreement under an existing master cooperative agreement that has already been competed, or that has been otherwise justified as single-source. In practical terms, that means the agency is announcing its plan to fund a specific partner or set of partners already covered under that prior agreement, rather than inviting new applications from the general public. Even though an "OriginalClosingDate" of 2017-08-09 is listed, the language makes clear that the public should not treat this as an application deadline because the announcement is not soliciting submissions.

The funding mechanism is a Cooperative Agreement, which typically indicates that NPS expects substantial involvement in the project beyond simply issuing a grant and receiving a final report. Cooperative agreements are commonly used for scientific and resource management projects where agency staff may collaborate on study design, data sharing, field coordination, or interpretation of results. The activity category is Natural Resources, aligning the project with land management, ecological monitoring, and fire and fuels science.

Key administrative details include the opportunity number "NPS 17 NERO 0112" and the associated CFDA number 15.945, which is a National Park Service assistance listing used for a range of NPS-supported projects. The listed award ceiling is $25,000, indicating a relatively small, targeted research or analysis effort rather than a large multi-year program. The posting was created on 2017-07-31. "EligibleApplicants" is shown as "Others," but given the non-competitive nature of the notice, eligibility is largely moot for anyone not already positioned under the relevant master cooperative agreement.

In short, this notice documents NPS intent to fund a specific, pre-identified project to evaluate long-term ecological and fuels-related effects of the 1947 Bar Harbor fire over the period 1948-2016, using a cooperative agreement structure with up to $25,000 available, and it is not an opportunity for new applicants to compete for the funding.

• The National Park Service in the natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Tracking the effects on vegetation and fuels of the 1947 Bar Harbor, Maine fire through time: 1948-2016" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.945.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2017-07-31.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2017-08-09. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $25,000.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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