Provide preservation trades training opportunities to young adults and veterans on national park service-led preservation projects in order to promote job skills training in the trades sector and…

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $116,666.64 Cooperative Agreement to Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization, to provide preservation trades training to young adults and veterans on NPS-led preservation projects. The award under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) will run from September 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025. The purpose is to promote job skills training in the trades sector and develop a stewardship ethic for cultural resource infrastructure on public lands. The work will be coordinated by Maintenance Action Teams (MAT) composed of NPS staff and youth corps members, utilizing Public Lands Legacy Restoration Funds (LRF). Hands-on training will cover skills such as carpentry, masonry, woodworking, traditional roofing, timber-framing, condition assessments, metalwork, adobe work, and exterior wood component repair. This will foster competitiveness in public and private sector employment opportunities, while also addressing critical deferred maintenance needs on NPS historic structures.

Provide preservation trades training opportunities to young adults and veterans on national park service-led preservation projects in order to promote job skills training in the trades sector and develop a stewardship ethic for cultural resource infrastructure on public lands. Work on this project will be coordinated by maintenance action teams (mat), made up of national park service staff and youth corps members, using public lands legacy restoration funds (LRF), as authorized by the great american outdoors act (gaoa). Work may include but is not limited to repairs, maintenance, restoration, and stabilization of deteriorating components of historic structures. Skills gained from these projects include but are not limited to: carpentry, masonry, woodworking, traditional roofing, timber-framing, condition assessments, metalwork, adobe work, and exterior wood component repair.providing hands-on training opportunities to young adults seeking to develop preservation trade skills will foster competitiveness in the public and private sector employment opportunities. Projects will address critical deferred maintenance needs on NPS historic structures thus furthering NPS goals to maintain, preserve, restore, historic infrastructure on NPS sites.