Bureau of Reclamation · Federal agency

Hemlock Project – Phase 2

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Award $235k Deadline 3045 days ago Location Alabama Type grant Level Federal Closed posted Apr 3, 2018

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Who can apply: Federal-level applicants (see eligibility for details).
Funding amount: up to $235,250 (total pool ~$235,250).
Next deadline: April 17, 2018.
Issued by: Bureau of Reclamation.

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Eligible applicants: see the Eligibility tab for the criteria from the official announcement.
Where: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, District of Columbia.
Award: $235k. Total program pool: $235,250.
Matching funds: not required.
Deadline type: Fixed.

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Award amount

$235k

Deadline

3045 days ago

Apr 17, 2018

Total pool

$235k

About this opportunity

OVERVIEW When approved, this Award of $235,250 will fund the second phase of investigation for the Hemlock Forest Restoration Project Study (aka Hemlock Project). This Project is the first of-its-kind comprehensive, quantitative assessment of the water-cycle consequences (both positive and negative) of forest restoration in a Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forest. The 12,000-acre landscape-restoration project site known as the Hemlock Project is located in the Stanislaus National Forest and Mokelumne River basin, which is an area that Congress has authorized the Bureau of Reclamation to investigate for water storage and improved water-management reliability in the Mokelumne River basin. The Hemlock Project is being managed with the involvement and cooperation of the Stanislaus National Forest who expects that the Hemlock Project’s forest modifications will restore watershed functions by creating different forest-stand structures and densities. These modifications have multiple benefits including reducing the forest’s susceptibility to drought-related mortality; reducing surface fuels, increasing the height to canopy, and decreasing crown density; retaining large, fire-resistant trees; maintaining and enhancing wildlife habitat; enhancing the extent and connectivity of aspen stands; and improving resource and watershed conditions. These actions will also enhance water-supply reliability by restoring the fraction of precipitation that leaves the basin as runoff versus evapotranspiration; guard against erosion, water-quality problems and snowpack losses associated with wildfire; and maintain water and forest health as the climate warms and evaporative demand increases. This application is for the second phase of funding, generally representing years 3 through 4 of the proposed 10 year period of investigation for the Hemlock Project Study. RECIPIENT INVOLVEMENT Project Work Plan UC Merced engineers and hydrologists will be involved in all aspects of this field research project. Their proposed approach to the hydrologic assessment involves carrying out intensive hydrologic and vegetation measurements and hydrologic modeling of forest treatment and control catchments, following silviculture prescriptions that provide end-member information for assessments. All aspects of the Hemlock Project are also developed in close coordination with the U.S Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Regional Forester’s Office as well as with the Stanislaus National Forest Supervisor and local District Rangers. Silviculture Treatment Overview The 12,000-acre Hemlock Project is aimed at improving ecological resilience by producing different forest-stand structures and densities; reducing the forest’s susceptibility to drought-related mortality; reducing surface fuels, increasing the height to canopy, and decreasing crown density; retaining large, fire-resistant trees; maintaining and enhancing important wildlife habitat; enhancing the extent and connectivity of aspen stands; and improving resource and watershed conditions. This approach contrasts with current Sierra Nevada forest management, which is often focused on strategically reducing fuels without an explicit strategy for ecological restoration across the landscape. The layout of silviculture prescriptions across the Hemlock Project site will follow the scientific principles in the Forest Service’s GTR-220 prescription. Summarizing recent scientific literature, GTR-220 suggests that managers produce different stand structures and densities across the landscape using topographic variables ( slope slope position) as a guide for varying treatments. Local cool or moist areas, where historically fire would have burned less frequently or at lower severity, would have higher density and canopy cover, providing habitat for sensitive species. In contrast upper, southern-aspect slopes would have low densities of large fire-resistant trees.

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Source ID302492

PostedApr 3, 2018

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Deadline 3045 days ago

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