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 Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the National Park Service under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), supports the Great Basin Institute's (GBI) Nevada Conservation Corps to deliver natural and cultural resource conservation, education, and volunteer service projects on Department of the Interior lands. Specifically, the $294,041.59 award will recruit interns to be members of the Capitol Reef Resource Management Team, providing them with hands-on experience in data collection, monitoring, and management of natural, cultural, and social resources. Key project activities include demographic monitoring of threatened and endangered species, vegetation management, and field data collection. This award, with a performance period from January 16, 2025 to July 31, 2026, aims to engage youth and veterans in critical conservation work while providing them with career development opportunities.

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. This project will recruit interns to be members of the capitol reef resource management team to provide practical application of natural, cultural, and social resources management, monitoring, and conservation. Participants will attain hands-on experience working in the field as they collect resource data such as demographic monitoring of threatened and endangered species, vegetation management and collecting field data. 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.