The National Park Service preserves unimpaired the natural and cultural resources and values of the National Park System for the enjoyment, education, and inspiration of this and future generations.
The National Park Service Species Inventories Program is designed to support projects that contribute to specific management actions either underway or planned within a park. These projects focus on producing tangible outcomes, such as reports, within a 12-18 month timeframe. Specifically, the program is interested in funding inventories of bat species occurrences, including identifying the presence or absence of tricolored bats, their roost sites, and foraging habitats in four southeastern United States parks: Canaveral National Seashore, Fort Matanzas National Monument, Cumberland Island National Seashore, and Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve. The goal is to enable each park to better understand bat presence or absence in both natural habitats and selected structures, with an expectation of sampling at least five sites per park to inform their management needs effectively. The process involves close collaboration with park managers to tailor the project to their specific requirements, followed by coordination of project calls and assistance with producing and reviewing deliverables.