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F -- GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)-BASED HABITAT ASSESSMENT FOR NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT SOL DABT10-CBD5-0006 DUE 022895 POC NILSA I. SUMMEY, CONTRACTING OFFICER, (706) 545-2200 GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)-BASED HABITAT ASSESSMENT FOR NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. Send letter of interest and qualifications to Mr. Peter Swiderek, USAIC, ATTN: ATZB-PWN-R, Fort Benning, GA 31905-5122; FAX (706) 544-6206; or call for additional information at (706) 544-7319. The Southern Pine Beetle (SPB) (Dendroctonus frontalis) is the most serious pest of yellow pine on Fort Benning. The red-cockaded woodpecker (RCW), a federally listed endangered species, is prevalent on Fort Benning and thousands of acres of RCW foraging and nesting habitat have been destroyed by the SPB within the last 10 years. The objective is to develop a forest assessment system capable of identifying forest stands which have a high risk of infestation and projected habitat quality for the protection and restoration of the RCW and other listed species. The approach of the habitat risk assessment will be integrated with a Geographic Information System (GIS), from which it will draw the landscape level data necessary to perform assessments, and through which the results will be made available to natural resource managers in the form of maps depicting habitat quality and infestation risk. The habitat/risk assessment system will consist of software to analyze the capacity of datasets to serve as predictors of habitat suitability; determine the conditional probabilities of presence and absence of a target organism in habitats delineated by each predictor dataset; combine these conditional probability maps under a Bayesian decision model to determine the likelihood of the target organism establishing a population in each habitat represented in the input datasets; and perform model diagnostics and report generation. This announcement IS NOT a Request for Proposals and no contract will be awarded solely on the basis of a response hereto or any follow-up information subsequently submitted. The Army will not make any reimbursement for any costs in connection with providing this information. (0044)

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