This program supports projects that further the mission of the national park service and efforts in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability that are…

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service's Conservation, Protection, Outreach, and Education program (CFDA 15.954) will provide $3,355,000.00 to the Center for Plant Conservation, Inc. to further the mission of the National Park Service in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability. The agreement will leverage the organization's expansive network of botanical professionals to collect and propagate plant materials such as seeds, cuttings, and spores to stabilize at-risk plant populations. The project aims to protect endangered plant species through comprehensive conservation strategies, including seed banking, genetic preservation, and collaborative research efforts with botanical gardens, research institutions, and federal agencies. This award will support critical research and conservation activities across different ecological regions, including establishing ex situ conservation collections, creating seed banks, conducting genetic diversity research, and developing plant propagation guidelines.

This program supports projects that further the mission of the national park service and efforts in natural and cultural resource conservation, protection, and environmental sustainability that are not covered under other specific financial assistance programs. An agreement with center for plant conservation will utilize an expansive network of botanical professionals who will collect plant material such as seeds, cutting, and spores with the purpose of propagating plants to use for stabilizing at-risk populations. Beneficiaries include profit organizations, public non-profit institutions organizations, private non-profit institutions organizations, non-federal government entities, industry and public decision makers, research scientists, engineers, and the general public.