This Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports research to assess the effects of wildfire and fire suppression activities on cultural resources within two National Park Service managed properties - Lava Beds National Monument and Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The $296,976.42 award, with a performance period from August 31, 2024 to...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program will contribute to a greater public understanding of protocols to improve the effectiveness of wildland fire response through a streamlined cultural resources vulnerability analysis and response. The project links existing NPS systems, provides additional data to the public, and partners with Southern Oregon...
This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the Department of the Interior National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training on science-based management of the National Park System. The $100,000 award to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) aims to...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) provides $186,447.12 to Southern Oregon University to identify and document archaeological sites within the Lava Beds National Monument that were exposed by wildfires in 2020 and 2021. The primary goal is to ensure these sites have the required minimum level of documentation. This project will benefit state/local...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides $400,316.42 to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to explore the ecophysiological limits to giant sequoia regeneration following high-severity wildfires. The project aims to understand whether the microclimate in large, high-severity burn scars is inhospitable to giant sequoia seedling...
This $649,597 project grant from the US Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) program will support research and partnership development efforts by the University of California, Merced. The goal is to enable the renewal of Indigenous fire stewardship practices and increase the safe, strategic use of cultural burning and prescribed fires to reduce wildfire risk. Specifically, the University will work with the...
The National Park Service Intermountain Region awarded a $150,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. The university will conduct field studies and computer simulations to help fire managers in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks adapt to climate change. Scientists will investigate the 1988 wildfires to better understand forest conversion and use...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $1,148,375.74 from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program will support a collaborative project between the NPS and the University of Hawaii at Hilo (UH Hilo) to expand upon previous research and documentation of cultural resources within the National Park System. The project will utilize remote sensing technologies to efficiently survey and document...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $351,588.23 to the Laguna De Santa Rosa Foundation to support ex-situ research and seed production techniques. The project aims to increase the availability of source-identified seeds and container plants from Department of the Interior (DOI) lands to enable widespread post-fire restoration. Key activities include establishing trial fields within one year,...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $136,982.00 from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides hands-on educational opportunities for anthropology, archaeology, and museum studies students at the University of Arizona. The award supports activities such as: Creating inventories of NPS collections held in non-federal repositories for 18 parks to ensure accountability and facilitate...