15.931: youth and veteran organizations conservation activitiessam.GOV link: click here for the SAM.GOV assistance listingtemplate: this program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and…

15.931: youth and veteran organizations conservation activitiessam.GOV link: click here for the SAM.GOV assistance listingtemplate: this program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carryout appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and educationprojects on department of the interior lands through authorized national park service programs.objectives of the project include decreasing hazardous fuels, reducing potential for large-scale high-intensity fires in southwestern forests, and using adaptive management to improve effectiveness and efficiency. Efforts focus on hazard tree identification and surveys, implementing fuel treatments such as prescribed fire and mechanical thinning safety and planning for fuel treatments and monitoring the effects of mechanical thinning and prescribed fire treatments to 1) determine if fire and resource management objectives, such as reducing potential for extreme fire behavior in the wildland urban interface, are being met, 2) measure the effectiveness of fire and thinning prescriptions, 3) determine if improvements can be made or if additional monitoring is needed. Efforts also include responding to wildfires as part of an engine crew and monitoring the effects of wildfire on vegetation and fuels. 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.