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...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $309,291.86 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) to the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA), a non-profit organization, to monitor and survey plant communities at over 30 sites within national park units in the San Francisco Bay Area Network. The project, which runs from August 2024 through March 2027, will assess grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands/forests to track long-term trends in...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $639,758 to support 67 non-federal short-term positions for a total of 1,724 weeks across 58 park units and programs. The participants will conduct research, fieldwork, and data collection to support natural resource management in national parks, including species surveys, habitat assessments, water/soil sampling, fossil documentation, and other data...
Conservation Science Partners, Inc. will receive $344,930 under a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service through the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System federal grant program (CFDA 15.945). The company will evaluate and assess natural resource conditions in national parks by writing one or more natural resource condition assessment reports, assisting with resource evaluations and ranking, summarizing data and information,...
American Forests will provide $250,000 in climate-smart reforestation services to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks under a four-year cooperative agreement from the National Park Service's Natural Resource Stewardship program. Key activities include meeting with indigenous stewards to develop reforestation goals, evaluating assisted adaptation strategies, collecting tree cones, growing seedlings, planning post-fire recovery, and stakeholder engagement. American Forests will work with...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $543,000.00 and granted by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944), will support efforts to promote forest resiliency in priority natural landscape blocks and unique plant communities. The project will focus on managing invasive plant species, surveying and monitoring forest pests, and planting native species including trees, forbs, graminoids, and rare plants. The award recipient, C &...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $150,000 to Northern Arizona University (NAU) to analyze long-term ecological monitoring data and improve analytical methods to assess the impacts of climate change on grasslands and other ecosystems in the western United States. The key activities include: Analyzing natural resource monitoring data and providing...
This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944), provides $1,000,000.00 in funding to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to facilitate the environmental and ecological restoration and conservation of ranchlands within Point Reyes National Seashore. Key project outcomes include ranchland transition support for ecosystem restoration, development and implementation of a conservation implementation strategy, and other...
This $374,473 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program to Conservation Science Partners, Inc. supports a collaborative research project to investigate the impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems in National Park units. The key activities under this project include assessing trends and drivers of climate impacts on stream temperatures, estimating thermal...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will support geologic resource management in Alaska's national parks under a $1.32 million cooperative agreement from the National Park Service. Awarded on July 15, 2021 and running through December 31, 2025, this funding through the NPS's Natural Resource Stewardship program will support the development of geologic resources inventory reports. As the principal means for NPS to evaluate and improve landscape and marine resources on lands and waters within...