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 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. Over 13-weeks, youth conservation corps members will learn and develop valuable skills in invasive plant inventory and management, native seed collection, native plant restoration, outdoor living, and outdoor recreation. Project participants will learn and discuss the national park service mission and increase their natural and cultural resource knowledge base.over 12-weeks, 6 individual placements will learn about and contribute to invasive plant inventory and management, habitat restoration (i.e., native seed collection, plant propagation, seeding, planting, mulching, watering), encroachment mitigation, cultural resource protection, outdoor living, outdoor recreation, wildlife management, and interpretation and resource education. Two individual placements will serve at grand canyon national park, two individual placements will serve at zion national park, and two individual placements will serve at glen canyon national recreation area. 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.