Gosp PT. 1 EOA project abstract 15.945: cooperative research and training programs of the national park system cesu network programming supports a comprehensive network of cooperative study units to…

This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program, will support an ethnographic overview and assessment of Golden Spike National Historic Park. The $205,089 award to Fort Lewis College will facilitate collaborative research and the development of an NPS-identified core cultural resource document. This project will engage with traditionally associated peoples, including Chinese, Irish, Church of Latter Day Saints, and African Americans, to identify and document cultural and natural resources significant to their histories and present lifeways. The research will inform science-based management of the National Park System.

Gosp PT. 1 EOA project abstract 15.945: cooperative research and training programs of the national park system cesu network 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 collaborative research project will result in an ethnographic overview and assessment, which is identified by NPS as a core baseline cultural resource document in do-28, cultural resource management guidelines, and wasos cultural resource fund source guidance. This project will identify and collaborate with traditionally associated peoples, as defined in NPS 2006 management policies, of golden spike national historic park (gosp) and discuss cultural and natural resources (hereafter called ethnographic resources) that they define as significant to their histories and present life ways. This project will involve chinese, irish, church of latter day saints, african americans and others identified by the principal investigator who will determine those who meet the definition as a traditionally associated people of gosp. American indian tribes will be involved in a separate and similar study. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and the general public).