This program seeks to utilize qualified non-profit youth and veteran serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and…

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $306,667 cooperative agreement (P24AC00064) to Conservation Legacy, a national non-profit organization, through the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). This 2-year award supports natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. Key activities include repairing and stabilizing masonry walls at Tuzigoot Pueblo and Montezuma Well, as well as restoring a pre-contact irrigation canal. The project will provide hands-on training and work experience for youth ages 16-30 and veterans up to age 35 in preservation techniques such as wall stabilization, backfilling, and irrigation system maintenance. The program aims to engage young people in conservation service while developing job skills and promoting stewardship of public lands under NPS management.

This program seeks to utilize qualified non-profit youth and veteran serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on department of the interior lands through authorized NPS programs. This project will provide youth the opportunity to experience and train in a variety of preservation techniques including wall and backfill stabilization treatments in group v of tuzigoot pueblo and at the swallet cave archeological site, as well as preservation of a pre-contact irrigation canal at montezuma well. This includes repairing damaged and deteriorating pre-contact masonry walls in four rooms, as well as adding additional clean fill material to minimize the effects from differential fill levels and undermined walls. In addition, the youth crews will repair damage to nearly 4500 linear feet of a working pre-contact irrigation canal by removing root intrusions, repairing active leaks, and strengthening sidewalls. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies: quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefit from the development and execution of these programs and projects. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefit from the development and execution of these programs and projects.for more information and guidance, refer to NPS financial assistance policy guidance document on usaspending.GOV award descriptions (project abstracts), or contact the NPS financial assistance policy office at financial assitance policy NPS.GOV.