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 purpose:the objective of this project is to protect, restore, and enhance the most infested acres of saltcedar (tamarisk) spread across the park, while providing opportunities for youth. Work activities: through this project, the most concentrated stands of saltcedar will be removed (and with IT the main seeds source). Performance goals: interns will be provided in-depth training including coaching from resource staff in the areas of resource management, program development, and safety. Expected outcomes: this project will implement management actions that will address the establishment on non-native invasive saltcedar. The intern will also be prepared for a uniformed positions in the national park service and other land management agencies. 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.