Funding Agency: US Army Corps of Engineers, Alaska District
Funding Instrument: Cooperative Agreement
Funding Opportunity No: POA50AF-CESU-18-03
CFDA No: 12.632
Program Title: Legacy Resource Management Program, Sikes Act 670c-1
Issue Date: 2 August 2018
Application Due Date: 31 August 2018
Overview:
POA50AF-CESU 18-03 MANAGEMENT INVASIVE SPECIES
WAKE ISLAND AIRFIELD, USA
1. Create Draft Work Plan.
2. Native Nursery Infrastructure Improvements.
3. Vegetation Treatments & Ground Clearing.
4. Preparation, Maintenance and Out-Planting of Seedlings.
5. Bird Awareness Signs.
6. Create Draft Project Summary Report.
See Scope of Work for detailed information.
Estimated Total Funding: $167,000.00
Eligible Applicants – CESU Hawaii, N&W Alaska, PNW, CA, and Colorado Plateau.
OBJECTIVES
Management Habitat, Native Ecosystems
This portion of the scope of work is intended to accomplish the following tasks:
– Conduct infrastructure improvements and maintain an existing native nursery established at Wake Island Airfield (WIA) over the course of 18 months;
– Maintain a stockpile of a minimum of four native species at the WIA nursery over the course of 18 months;
– Remove non-native and USAF flight line incompatible vegetation from the two project areas identified in Figure 1 over the course of 18 months;
– Out- plant native vegetation within the two project areas identified within Figure 1 over the course of 18 months.
This project will support the Air Force in its endeavors to achieve the following: Integrated Natural Resources Management Plan (INRMP) Goal No. 10, to maximize the use of native plant species and avoid introduction of invasive, and exotic species through revegetation activities, and INRMP Objective No. GM-2 (Ground Maintenance), through the development of a central native ecosystem garden and nursery.
POINTS OF CONTACT
The POC for USACE Project Management is Charis Cooper.
Cooperative Agreement questions should be addressed to Olen Northern.
Correspondence should be addressed as follows:
Charis Cooper
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Environmental &Special Projects Branch
ATTN:CEPOA-EC-EE
P.O. Box 6898
JBER, AK 99506-0898
Office: (907) 753-5692
Email: charis.a.cooper@usace.army.mil
Olen Northern
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Contracting Division
ATTN: CEPOA-CT
P.O. Box 6898
JBER, AK 99506-0898
Phone: 907-753-2525
Email: Olen.R.Northern@usace.army.mil
The USAF Technical POC is Joel Helm at (907) 552-5230.
Routine correspondence should be via email when appropriate.
Joel Helm
U.S. Air Force 611 CES/CEIE
10471 20th Street Suite 302
JBER, AK 99506-2201
Phone: 907-552-5230
Email: joel.helm.1@us.af.mil
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