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 U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) provides $230,055.06 to The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps division to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service, and monitoring projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will recruit research associates to gain experience in natural resource management by participating in the establishment of long-term monitoring locations, collecting plant and animal data in terrestrial, aquatic, and cave ecosystems, measuring water quality, documenting invasive species, and monitoring wildlife populations. The funding supports the delivery of these conservation and educational activities from July 2024 through October 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. This project will recruit a research associates who will gain experience in natural resource management and conservation by participating in the establishment of long-term monitoring locations including collection of plant and animal monitoring data in terrestrial aquatic and cave ecosystems. Learning methods for measuring lake and stream condition and water quality. Documenting the presence of invasive plants and pathogens. Monitoring distribution health and habitat requirements of plant and animal populations and other related projects.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.