Welcome back my friends to the Land of Weird. So much to choose from this time around…
I’ve been to Wyoming and Montana only a few times; beautiful county and I hope to return for a longer stay at some point, but what I didn’t realize is how popular that region was in receiving grant funding. Here are some highlights of recent funding opportunities for the two states:
Geologic Resources and Updated Mineral Potential in Montana - $30,000
Cadastral Data Base in Montana - $1,250,000
2010 USDA-NRCS Montana Conservation Innovation Grants - $350,000
National Park Service- Exotic Snail Inventory and Macroinvertebrate Identification at Yellowstone - $55,100
BLM WY Take It Outside Nature Camp - $10,000
In the past several weeks there seems to be a greater than normal amount of grants with cute little titles too. So nice to see we’re being creative:
Assembling the Tree of Life - $12,000,000
Oh By The Way (OBTW) - $18,000,000
Clean-slate design of Resilient, Adaptive, Secure Hosts (CRASH) - $ not stated
And what “Greatest Grants” blog entry would be complete without highlighting some grants from the Department of Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service:
Bogus Creek Salmon Studies - $20,485
Lesser long-nosed bat surveys - $69,000
Palmyra Atoll Rat Eradication - $1,980,000
Coordinate the Construction of Waters and Forage Enhancements at a New Semi-Captive Breeding Pen for Sonoran Pronghorn - $454,000 (“semi-captive breeding pen”, really? What in the world is that?)
Finally you’ve probably heard the expression “a day late and a dollar short”. Well, in one of the most ironic things I’ve seen in some time, FEMA issued a grant announcement on June 2nd entitled the Pre-disaster Mitigation Program whereby they intend to spend $100,000,000 “to implement a sustained pre-disaster natural hazard mitigation program”. The only problem? The BP oil spill happened on April 20th.
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