Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NOROCK) is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU Partner for research to improve understanding of ungulate genetics in national parks. The proposed project will advance the ability to understand population structure, movements, and trend of mountain ungulates. CESU Partner Geneticists and research ecologists at Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center will work with park partners to inform resource management decisions. Prioritizing the most useful samples, developing new genetic loci suitable for these objectives, and using the latest techniques for evaluating these important components of population characteristics can help provide the context for other studies on mountain goats and bighorn sheep and for management decisions related to recreation and visitor use for this iconic transboundary population.