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 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. The NPS and recipient will collaborate to recruit interns and provide them with important career building experience in natural resource management, working with a focus in botany, wildlife, forest birds, or cultural resources. Haleakala national park will host these resource management internships for college students and recent graduates. These field internships will provide training opportunities and unique work experiences for students pursuing conservation careers specifically in botany, endangered wildlife, forest birds, and cultural resources management. This base task agreement supports internships and may be modified to adjust the period of performancebeneficiaries 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.