This program utilizes qualified nonprofit youth and veteranserving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation education volunteer service and education…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, valued at $144,306.32, was issued by the Department of the Interior's National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). The award will support The Great Basin Institute, a non-profit organization, in recruiting a natural resource research associate to assist with natural resource management and restoration planning in national parks. The project will also engage youth and young adults in activities such as data collection, watershed restoration, stream and fisheries monitoring, and habitat surveys to help protect park resources. This grant will ultimately benefit private non-profit institutions, academic institutions, government agencies, and the general public through the development and execution of these conservation education and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands. The award period runs from August 5, 2024 to December 31, 2026.

This program utilizes qualified nonprofit youth and veteranserving 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 natural resource focused research associate to support natural resource management and restoration planning in the parks and will ultimately help protect park resources for future generations. Interns will learn about and gather data to support natural resource management watershed restoration stream and fisheries monitoring and habitat surveys.beneficiaries include private nonprofit institutions and organizations public and private nonprofit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasipublic nonprofit 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.