[Partners-IMCWMA] CDFA proposal

[Tara Athan]

From: WMA Planning Committees

Dear WMA Partners-

I will be attending the Lakeport meeting about the CDFA RFP tomorrow 
(Tuesday, July 24).
The RFP is available at 
http://www.alt2is.com/imcwma/documents_external/CDFA_RFP_2007/
 >From the WMA meetings earlier in the month, we formulated a set of 
questions to ask for clarification - see below.

Also, it was proposed that each WMA be eligible to apply for 50% of the 
Mendocino County eligibility, and to prepare 1 or 2 projects from each 
WMA. (5 projects is the maximum, 3 is recommended).

Some possible projects that have been put forward are:
Coast WMA: eradicate gorse at the Caspar transfer station, eradicate 
giant knotweed, resubmit a scaled-down version of last years gorse 
containment proposal.

Inland WMA: red Sesbania eradication, Arundo donax eradication, invasive 
water-primrose eradication, Weed Prevention Areas

The Lakeport meeting ends early on Tuesday, so when I get back in the 
afternoon, I will send out the replies and a summary of the eligible 
projects proposed so far. I would like to use our Partners e-mail lists 
to hold the discussion as we flesh out these projects. I have the 
mailing list set up as a forum so that replying to a message from the 
list sends it to all subscribers on the list.  Please do NOT reply-all 
or add other recipients to the address list- reply only to the Partners 
mailing list. Attachments of up to 1MB are allowed- lets keep the draft 
proposal as a text file to keep it small.  It can be formatted for the 
final version.

If this discussion generates more e-mail than you would like, there are 
a few simple options that are less radical than totally unsubscribing 
from the WMA mailing lists:
1. temporarily disable mail delivery for your address ( a good thing to 
know how to do if you have an auto-responder that sends out-of-office 
replies );
2. Set Digest Mode to ON (collects a number of messages for delivery all 
together, no attachments however );
3. switch to the Associates mailing list to receive infrequent WMA 
announcements.

Either of these options can be done by you through the mailing list web 
pages:
http://mcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/partners_mcwma.org
http://mcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/associates_mcwma.org

http://imcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/partners_imcwma.org
http://imcwma.org/mailman/listinfo/associates_imcwma.org

If you have any difficulty, contact me and I will assist.

Thanks for all your help,

Tara


Lakeport Meeting 2007/07/24

 >>Ask Steve about:

1. Follow-on funding for distaff thistle: Will we be in jeopardy for 
2009 funding?

2. Clarify Distinction between Eradication and Containment
 > what is the region that eradication would apply to
 > what does pioneer mean
 > what does outlier mean

Will projects with eradication goal have higher ranking than other goals?

3. Matching funds- can be state or federal, or does it have to be local?

4. Do matching funds have to be go specifically towards work on 
populations identified in proposal?

Example: eradication of gorse at Caspar transfer station- could matching 
funds for State Parks apply?

5. Weed Prevention Area Program- does this fit any of the goals in the RFP?
  Example: Williams Ranch Road, from 30,000 stems YST to 15 in 2007

 >>Ask Sonoma County about Gualala/Sea Ranch area.

Tara Athan
Coordinator, Inland Mendocino Cooperative Weed Management Area
coord at imcwma.org
707-485-1198
PO Box 415
Redwood Valley, CA 95470