Press launch shared by PA Media, www.media.pa.gov, 5/1/2024.
Division of Conservation and Pure Sources (DCNR) Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn introduced that the Wild Useful resource Conservation Program will quickly accepting purposes for grants to guard the state’s native biodiversity.
Overseen by DCNR, this system advantages Pennsylvania’s non-game animals, native vegetation, orphan taxa, and their habitat.
Grant purposes will likely be accepted in three areas: species surveys, conservation and administration.
The appliance spherical opens Might 6.
“These grants are crucial in supporting discipline analysis and on-the-ground conservation tasks that defend a few of our most susceptible species,” Dunn mentioned. “This program is important to sustaining Pennsylvania’s ecosystem for generations to return and we look ahead to seeing the brand new proposals for this spherical of purposes.”
Amongst this 12 months’s grant priorities are surveys and tasks associated to the conservation of:
- Mammals like northern flying squirrel, Allegheny woodrat, and noticed skunk
- Birds like northern harrier
- Mussels just like the clubshell and spherical hickorynut
- Fish like Chesapeake logperch; and
- Research to raised perceive Pennsylvania’s uncommon vegetation by way of genetics and habitat modeling and their insect pollinators, in addition to documenting Pennsylvania’s fungi.
“This explicit grant spherical is concentrated on efforts to construct on earlier research and help Pennsylvania’s big range of wildlife and native wild vegetation, that are part of our lovely and various ecosystem,” mentioned Conservation Science and Ecological Sources Chief Rebecca Bowen, who oversees the Wild Useful resource Conservation Program for DCNR. “This program is particular as a result of it permits the residents of Pennsylvania to instantly contribute to non-game wildlife and native plant conservation.”
Bowen famous that the Wild Useful resource Conservation Program schedule had been disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic and pointed to a extra regular timeframe for purposes this 12 months.
Launched in 1982, the Wild Useful resource Conservation Program encourages and helps analysis and safety efforts to preserve Pennsylvania’s various native wildlife sources, together with hen and mammal species, amphibians and reptiles, bugs, and wild vegetation.
Purposes will likely be accepted Monday, Might 6 by way of 4:00 P.M. on Monday, July 1.
Purposes solely will likely be accepted electronically by way of DCNR’s on-line grant utility system.
Study extra in regards to the Wild Useful resource Conservation Program.
MEDIA CONTACT: Wesley Robinson, DCNR, 717-877-6315