The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Midwest Region is proud to collaborate with the U.S Geological Survey’s Science Support and Quick Response program. Through the partnership, over $380,000 in funding will be available to emphasize cooperative problem solving in the Service.
“This program allows us to maintain a strong working collaboration with our USGS partners in the Midwest Region and across the country,” stated Tom Melius, Midwest Regional Director. Melius added, “It is particularly good to witness the cooperative problem solving occurring between Service field offices and local USGS scientists as they identify and address our collective conservation challenges using the best available science.”
Midwest Region projects that received funding through the Science Support Program are:
- The Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, in partnership with Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge, Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Columbia Ecological Services Field Office, Missouri Department of Conservation, U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will receive $148,467 over three years for the identification of summer habitat of the federally endangered Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and three other bat species of special concern within the Ozark - Central Recovery Unit. Research findings will have application for landscape distribution use.
