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 $109,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service Northeast Region under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) will facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the National Park System. The award will support the Northeast Region's network of Cooperative Study Units to deliver multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across the region's National Park units. Specifically, the award will assist National Park units in the Northeast with research, documentation, and planning for management of their historically significant cultural landscapes, and will train students in cultural landscape preservation practices. The award will also support historical research, existing conditions documentation, analysis, evaluation, and treatment planning for the cultural landscape of the Hunt House at Women's Rights National Historical Park.

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. The purpose of this award to assist national park units in the northeast region with research, documentation, and planning for management of their historically significant cultural landscapes, and to train students in the practice of cultural landscape preservation. In addition, the project will assist womens rights national historical park with historical research, existing conditions documentation, analysis evaluation, and treatment planning for the cultural landscape of the hunt house. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public.