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This proposal aims to support efforts to improve water level management, restore wetlands, and engage local officials in black duck habitat protection in the Choptank watershed. It focuses on enhancing riparian buffer and stream protection services to private landowners while fostering collaboration across technical service providers.
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2019 GIT Funding Process Timeline Criteria New Portal
Timeline • June 14: Table 1 due via Chesapeake Bay Trust Portal • GIT Chairs, coordinators, and staffers meet to rank proposals • August 2: Final list sent to CBPO Director for approval • August- September: Table 2 development with CBT help • September 24: Table 2 due • October: RFP is released • November 15: RFP closes • January 2020: Projects commence
Projects must… • Address and explicitly identify components of the work plan and management strategy, or critical barriers to achieving an outcome, particularly those identified through the Strategy Review System • Include deliverables that can serve as a catalyst for expanded action • Offer a deliverable in one year • Be unique and not previously undertaken • Engage in an internal review by CBPO Web, IT, GIS, Communications, and Science Prioritization Teams
Projects should… • Meet more than one Chesapeake Bay Program outcome, Particularly outcomes that fall under more than one GIT • Aim to complete all the components of an outcome’s decision framework (developing a monitoring plan, establishing criteria for measuring progress, addressing an identified science priority) • $30,000-80,000 price range
Habitat GIT Funding Proposal Black Duck: Choptank Integrated Service Delivery
Action Item in Workplan: 2.1, 4.1 • Support partner efforts to improve water level management on managed wetlands, restore SAV or converted wetlands, manage open, restore and manage riparian buffers, etc. • Keep local officials engaged in and aware of black duck habitat protection efforts and ways to incorporate protection efforts into local decision making • Goals: • Compliment the current “Envision the Choptank” project • Develop a system for coordination and multi-disciplinary communication networks across the Technical Service Provider (TSP) community in the Choptank watershed • Focus on delivery of riparian buffer, stream protection, wetland and living shoreline services to private landowners; will encompass broader whole farm and forest planning • Collaborators: • Wetland WG • WQGIT • Forestry WG • Fisheries GIT