Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the…

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. The cooperator and a qualified team of subject matter experts (SMES) will research and write an interpretive content report on the interpretive focus areas of african american descendant communities, indigenous descendant communities, and food origins and foodways within the chesapeake BAY watershed. This report will serve as a framework for interpretive programs at publicly accessible natural, cultural, and historic sites to tell a more complete story of the chesapeake BAY region. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).