Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the…

Programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to facilitate cooperative research, technical assistance, education, and training to inform science-based management of the national park system. The study units facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across multiple geographic regions of the national park system. This project will conduct landscape-scale conversion of agricultural sites and other open lands to native grasslands, where feasible, and restore or enhance existing high-quality to degraded remnants in select sites across the northeast region. IT will develop and implement processes to apply standard approaches to assess and evaluate sites for necessary site preparations, site enhancements or rehabilitations and conversions. The project will RE-evaluate effectiveness of these processes each year. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).