15.931: youth and veteran organizations conservation activities this program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural…

This Cooperative Agreement award of $180,000 from the National Park Service's Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) will support Conservation Legacy, a non-profit organization doing business as the Southwest Conservation Corps, to carry out natural and cultural resource conservation projects on Department of the Interior lands. The project will provide hands-on conservation and invasive plant management experience to several young adults, including assisting in the control of high priority invasive plants in grassland and riparian habitats at multiple National Park Service units. This award, with a performance period from December 2024 to April 2027, aims to engage young adults and veterans in practical workforce development, environmental stewardship, and conservation training opportunities across public lands.

15.931: youth and veteran organizations conservation activities 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 project will provide several young adults practical, hands-on experience in the field of conservation and invasive plant management at multiple national park service units. The work crews assist in the control of aggressive, high priority invasive plants in grassland and riparian habitat.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.