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Request For Proposals – Professional Services
Title: Current Conditions Reports, Conservation Management Plans
Proposal due date: July 1, 2024
Time frame: All work must be completed by June 1, 2025.
Goal
The Henry L Ferguson Museum and Land Trust is seeking a consultant to develop a set of conservation management plans (CMPs) for its fee properties and a set of Current Conditions Reports (CCRs) for its conservation easements. All plans and reports should follow the Land Trust Alliance’s specifications. The Land Trust is located on Fishers Island, NY, accessible from New London, CT.
Land Trust History and Resources
Since its inception in 1960, the Henry L. Ferguson Museum (Museum) has worked to protect habitat for the flora and fauna of Fishers Island, New York, primarily through its Land Trust. While a few parcels were added in its early years, the Land Trust proactively started expanding in 1981. Today, the Museum conserves 69 separately deeded fee properties, nine distinct easements and one property under a management contract but owned by the Town of Southold. Properties that are contiguous – sharing boundaries – require one management plan that includes all of the properties within the cluster. When structured in this manner, the set of management plans would address ten clusters, seven easements and 33 single, non-contiguous parcels. This represents about 375 acres – about 14% of the Island.
Although professional biological surveys related to Museum properties date to 1993 and earlier, a focus on science-based conservation management of the land trust started in earnest in 2016, when the Museum hired two graduate students from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The two interns developed a plan for ten “sectors” encompassing 39 of our properties. This plan pulled together a lot of information, but the priorities did not reflect those of the Land Trust, which was a good lesson. This underscores the value of a collaborative planning process that includes the Land Trust Committee members and staff.
In 2021, the HLF Museum contracted with the NY Natural Heritage Program to survey all properties. Over the course of two years, the team of scientists produced a wall-to-wall ecological mapping and surveyed for rare plants, reptiles and amphibians, small mammals including bats and select insect taxa. In total, 64 ecological communities were identified on Land Trust properties, as well as a number of important and rare species. The final NYNHP report and extensive appendices were produced in 2023 and are available on the Museum’s website (https://fergusonmuseum.org/2023/08/fishers-island-biodiversity-2023-report/).
Scope of Work
The role of the consultant will be to take the lead and manage the process to develop the needed CMPs and CCRs.
A major focus of this work will be to use the Museum’s existing resources to (1) build consensus among the Land Trust committee members on specific management goals (2) develop a set of CMPs, following Land Trust Alliance (LTA) guidelines, (3) identify needed activities to achieve the goals.
Another focus will be to write the CCRs following LTA guidelines for the easements and obtain the required signatures. Within these two concurrent projects, the consultant should develop goals and protocols for an annual monitoring program to assess progress on the management plans and to meet annual requirements of conservation easements.
As such, we are seeking a consultant to:
Deliverables
By the end of this contract, the consultant will deliver the following:
Project Requirements and Timeline
Travel expenses and other expenses are paid by the consultant unless agreed to by the Museum and Consultant in advance.
Please provide a complete written response to this RFP. Proposals should include:
Please submit an electronic copy of your proposal to hlfmlandtrust@gmail.com by July 1, 2024. Please note that the Museum will not return any proposals it receives nor reimburse applicants for any costs they incur in developing their proposals.
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