Assessing the factors affecting forest condition along APPA | NPS 19 NERO 0020

Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS 19 NERO 0020

The National Park Service (NPS) posted a discretionary funding notice for a project titled "Assessing the factors affecting forest condition along APPA" under Funding Opportunity Number NPS 19 NERO 0020. The assistance mechanism is a cooperative agreement, which typically means NPS expects to have substantial involvement during the work rather than simply issuing a grant and stepping back. The activity area is listed under Science and Technology and other Research and Development, and it falls under CFDA 15.945, a catalog listing associated with NPS assistance programs.

This posting is explicitly not a solicitation and not a request for applications. In practical terms, it functions as a public notice that NPS intends to award financial assistance for the described project activities, rather than inviting open competition. The description repeats this point, emphasizing that the purpose of the announcement is transparency about the agency's intent to make an award, not to gather proposals from the public. Because it is not an application call, the presence of an "OriginalClosingDate" (2019-05-26) should be read more as an administrative posting detail than a deadline for submitting new proposals.

The opportunity lists an award ceiling of $48,197, indicating the maximum anticipated federal funding level for the work under this action. The notice also shows "ExpectedAwards" but does not provide a value, and it does not specify a minimum award amount. The eligible applicant category is listed as "Others," a broad label that can encompass entities not captured by standard categories like state governments, local governments, universities, or nonprofits; however, since the announcement is not requesting applications, eligibility details are less relevant than they would be in a competitive funding announcement.

The title indicates that the project focus is forest condition along "APPA," which likely refers to the Appalachian National Scenic Trail corridor or a related Appalachian park/preservation context commonly abbreviated in NPS communications. While the notice does not include technical scope details, the phrasing suggests research to identify, quantify, or model drivers influencing forest health and condition along that corridor, which could include stressors such as invasive species, browsing pressure, fragmentation, climate-related impacts, disease, air pollution, or human use patterns. The cooperative agreement format implies NPS may coordinate on study design, data needs, field access, analysis approaches, or integration of results into resource management decisions.

Key administrative details from the posting include the agency (National Park Service), the creation date (2019-05-06), the opportunity category (Discretionary), the funding instrument type (Cooperative Agreement), and the ceiling amount ($48,197). The central takeaway is that this is a notice of intent to award assistance for a specific research-oriented project, not an open funding competition.

• The National Park Service in the science and technology and other research and development sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Assessing the factors affecting forest condition along APPA" 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 2019-05-06.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2019-05-26. (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 $48,197.00 in funding.
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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