Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science based management of the…

This $240,000 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Midwest Region will support research and technical assistance through September 2025 under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System federal grant program.

Specifically, the Regents of the University of Minnesota will conduct Phase I of a project to determine and develop best management practices to promote successful climate-adapted floodplain forest canopy restoration along the Mississippi River corridor within the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area in Minnesota. Phase II will further assess factors such as beaver movement and finalize definitive best practices. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, public-private nonprofit organizations, and institutions of higher education.

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science based management of the national park system the study units facilitate multi disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system this research is to determine and develop best management practices bmps to promote successful climate adapted floodplain forest canopy restoration and its associated habitat along a stretch of the mississippi river corridor within the mississippi national river and recreation area in minnesota this project is phase i with additional work assessing factors such as beaver movement and stating definitive bmps to be finalized in phase II beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public