The natural resource stewardship program is the principle means through which the national park service NPS evaluates and improves the health of watersheds, landscapes, and marine and coastal…

The National Park Service awarded a $270,300 cooperative agreement to the Mississippi Park Connection on September 16, 2022 through the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The project will develop best management practices to maintain and restore floodplain forest habitat along the Mississippi River in Minnesota through September 2025. As the principle means by which NPS evaluates and improves watershed, landscape, and coastal resource health while sustaining biological communities and climate change resilience, the Natural Resource Stewardship program supports this effort to restore ecosystem benefits to local communities through floodplain forest restoration.

The natural resource stewardship program is the principle means through which the national park service NPS evaluates and improves the health of watersheds, landscapes, and marine and coastal resources, sustains biological communities on the lands and waters in parks, and actively endeavors to improve the resiliency of these natural resources and adapt them to the effects of climate change to carry out and further this stewardship responsibility, NPS implements programs that encompass a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities by utilizing park personnel and contractor support or cooperative agreements this project is to develop those best management practices bmps to successfully maintain and or restore floodplain forest and its associated habitat along the stretch of the mississippi river and considered phase i the public will benefit from this project through restoration of floodplain forest throughout the mississippi river, returning ecosystem benefits to the people who live and recreate along the river beneficiaries include the general public