Grant Opportunity: Identification of Economic and Cultural Endpoints/Indicators

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Program Description: The Gulf Coastal Plains & Ozarks Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GCPO LCC) is a non-regulatory conservation partnership comprised of private, state, and federal organizations and agencies that have come together to collectively define, design, and deliver landscapes capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources at desired levels now and into the future.

 

Evaluation and Assessment of Incentives for Natural Resource Management on Private Lands: Identification of Economic and Cultural Endpoints/Indicators

The GCPO LCC has spent considerable time identifying landscape and species endpoints that define desired ecological states for priority systems within the GCPO LCC geography.

While these endpoints are useful targets for land managers with a primary interest in natural resource conservation, the majority of land in the GCPO LCC is private and managed to not only provide conservation benefits but also economic (i.e., food, fuel, and fiber) and cultural (i.e., recreation, aesthetics, and historical) benefits as well. To effectively work with private landowners, the conservation community must understand how they value these other benefits.

 

Projects under this topic should identify and quantify ecosystem goods and services that can serve as economic and cultural endpoints for priority habitat types. Projects that evaluate how economic and/or cultural goods and services can be leveraged to facilitate

natural resource management that achieves desired ecological states on private lands are of particular interest.

 

Funds available: Up to $350,000

 

To learn more about this opportunity please click HERE

 

If you are interested in pursuing this opportunity or would like to learn more about it please contact Melissa, mke...@westga.edu