This program seeks to utilize qualified non-profit youth and veteran serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and…

This $221,862.15 Cooperative Agreement award, funded by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), provides support to the National Council for Preservation Education (NCPE) to facilitate student internships focused on cultural resource conservation and museum collection management. Through this award, NCPE will place interns at NPS sites to assist with activities such as document conservation, digitization, artifact cataloging, and general museum collection care. The interns will work alongside park archeologists to process and catalog historic collections from the Dyea Townsite, a former Klondike Gold Rush location. This award, with a performance period from September 2024 to December 2027, is part of the NPS's broader effort to engage youth and veterans in natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands.

This program seeks to utilize 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 NPS programs.outcomes: interns will assist the museum curator and project manager with conservation and processing of historic documents and general museum collection care work. Daily tasks include conservation, digitization, database entry, lab maintenance and basic treatment steps for collections and archive materials. The intern will process and catalog historic archeological field collections from the dyea townsite, a former klondike gold rush boom town. Working with park archeologists, the intern will clean, research, photograph, and catalog artifacts.