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…

This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports a comprehensive network of study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training. The $207,681.41 award to the University of Tennessee's Ut AG Research Division will be used to inform science-based management of the National Park System through multi-disciplinary research and integrated information products. Key activities include using mountain lion research and management as tools for community engagement, outreach, and education to involve multiple stakeholder groups in discussions focused on informed, joint resource conservation and management. The award has a performance period from July 8, 2024 to July 8, 2027.

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. Propose to use mountain lion research and management as tools for community engagement with stakeholders and partners, while facilitating interactions between historically disparate urban and rural communities. This will be accomplished through outreach, education, and surveys, designed to involve multiple interest groups in discussions focused on informed, joint resource conservation, and management. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).