This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $385,000.00 to the Xerces Society Inc. to collect species presence data on bumble bees and butterflies at five national park units in the Northern Great Plains Network. The primary objective is to inform invasive vegetation management, controlled burning, and compliance determinations for these pollinator species. The data...
Under this $358,262.04 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the CFDA 15.944 Natural Resource Stewardship program, American Forests will collaborate with Yellowstone National Park and Grand Teton National Park to promote recovery and conservation of the threatened whitebark pine. The project will expand scientific planning and restoration capacity, and develop compliance documentation, a report on whitebark pine status and trends, and an updated park conservation...
This $2,359,162 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the U.S. National Park Service under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) supports the Greater Yellowstone Coalition's efforts to facilitate the ecocultural restoration of bison. The project aims to transfer 1,000 surplus Yellowstone bison to American Indian tribes and their historical range. This will involve developing new and improved bison holding pastures within Yellowstone National Park and on tribal lands, processing the...
The National Park Service awarded a $104,639 cooperative agreement to the Great Basin Institute, a division of the Nevada Conservation Corps, to conduct historical research and update geographic information systems (GIS) data for Yellowstone National Park under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946). Through July 2027, a historian will research agricultural activities in Yellowstone from 1905-1965, conduct oral histories, analyze satellite imagery and photographs, and produce an...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $136,833 to Montana Conservation Corps, Inc. to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects in Yellowstone National Park. Over a 10-week period, the project will engage young adults aged 15-25 in hands-on conservation work such as trail improvement, campground enhancement, and...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under CFDA 15.945 - Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System will support the continued development and operation of the East Cascades Native Plant Hub, a collaborative native seed and plant propagation program. The purpose of this $1,470,436.87 award, with a period of performance from September 1, 2024 to December 1, 2028, is to provide plant materials...
This $1,089,489.01 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), will provide early career botanists and vegetation restoration professionals with opportunities to support post-fire erosion control and landscape wildfire resiliency efforts on Department of the Interior lands across the western United States. The award recipient, The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) provides $3,355,000.00 to the Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. to support projects that further the mission of the NPS in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability. The project will utilize the Center for Plant Conservation's network of botanical professionals to collect plant materials such as...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Wyoming's Sponsored Programs to support the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. This 5-year project will facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across the National Park System. Specifically, the agreement will operationalize the "Defend the Core, Grow the Core"...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) provides $626,384 to the Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. to support rare plant species conservation efforts in the Intermountain West region. The project aims to assemble ex situ plant collections from wild populations, creating seed and gene banks as well as botanical garden living collections. These off-site conservation efforts are intended to support...