This $460,000 Cooperative Agreement awarded on September 5, 2023 by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935) supports the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in protecting, preserving, and developing the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The funded activities include volunteer-based surveys, assessments, and preservation treatments for sensitive species and rare plant communities, inventory and control of invasive...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935), will provide $849,713 to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy to engage volunteers and partners in preserving and protecting natural and cultural resources along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The key products and services to be delivered include high-risk tree removal at 41 trail sites, maintained landscape and trail maintenance...
The National Park Service awarded a $1,420,919 cooperative agreement to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935) to preserve and protect natural and cultural resources along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. Through June 2025, the Conservancy and sub-awardees Dartmouth College and the Maine Appalachian Trail Club will complete deferred maintenance projects, rehabilitating 21 miles of heavily eroded trail, replacing bridges and...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $904,873.00 and issued on Jun 23, 2025 by the National Park Service under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935), will engage volunteers and partners in preserving and protecting natural and cultural resources along the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The key deliverables include the maintenance of 112.5 miles of exterior boundary corridor, 2,054 miles of treadway, and 472 acres of maintained landscapes, ensuring continued...
This $1,242,959.68 Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935) supports the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's efforts to preserve, protect, and develop the Appalachian National Scenic Trail. The project will engage volunteers and partners in performing physical site assessments, developing treatment plans and designs, and completing planning and design work to support the restoration of facility assets along the Appalachian...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935) provides $155,727 to the Trail of Tears Association to enhance volunteer efforts that increase public access, recreation, and retracement opportunities along the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and related sites. The project focuses on interpretation, preservation, and protection of the trail's resources through communication,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $149,588 to the Sierra Streams Institute, doing business as Friends Of Deer Creek, to develop a partnership strategy for informal environmental science learning experiences in California's Sierra Nevada region. The primary objectives of the partnership are to: a) establish a generative and community-based partnership based on mutual benefit, trust, responsibility, power-sharing,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $206,555.04, was granted by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954). The purpose of the award is to utilize qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and trail maintenance projects on Department of the Interior lands along the Appalachian...
This cooperative agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $223,986.66 to Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization, to carry out natural resource conservation and trail maintenance projects at Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland. The award will fund two six-person trail crews to repair 2 miles of the hazardous Chimney Rock Trail and build 1.5 miles of new trail connecting Camp Greentop to...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a $199,982 Cooperative Agreement on September 25, 2025 to the Santa Fe Trail Association under the National Trails System Projects program (CFDA 15.935). The project focuses on enhancing the association's volunteer efforts to increase public access, recreation, and retracement opportunities along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail and related sites through interpretation, preservation, and protection of the trail's...