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…

The National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) was awarded a $231,385 Cooperative Agreement under the National Park Service's Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931). The award will fund NCPE to provide internship and educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in cultural resource management, historic preservation, and related projects on Department of the Interior lands.

Interns will work alongside NPS cultural resources staff to conduct field investigations, research, analysis, and documentation of historic landscapes, buildings, and structures across various national parks and regional offices. Key activities include cataloging museum collections, digitizing records, supporting conservation efforts, and entering data into federal databases. The internship program aims to develop students' practical skills and foster their interest in cultural resource preservation careers.

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.interns work with NPS cultural resources staff on cultural landscapes, historic structures, archeology, ethnographic resources, and GIS information that is stored in the cultural resources inventory system database. Interns will be based either in parks or regional offices. Work includes field investigation, research, analysis, and writing of historic landscapes, buildings, and structures with a team of cultural resource professionals.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 benefitfrom the development and execution of these programs and projects.