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

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $218,666.66 to support Conservation Legacy and its Southwest Conservation Corps program to execute natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands at Great Sand Dunes National Park. The funding will be used to repair and maintain hiking trails, including the Sand Creek Trail, Little Sand Creek Trail, and Medano Lake Trail, as well as bring the park's two accessible trails into compliance with federal accessibility standards. This project work will benefit the local community and approximately 400,000 visitors to the park. The award period runs from June 2024 to June 2025.

This program utilizes 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 national park service programs. Great sand dunes will utilize three conservation crews to improve park trails and primitive road. Tasks include repair of the sand creek trail, little sand creek trail, medano lake trail, and bring the only two accessible trails in great sand dunes national park preserve back into compliance with the architectural barriers act accessibility standards (abaas). This crew work will benefit the local community and approximately 400,000 visitors. 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.