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 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 complete mission critical historic preservation and maintenance work including but not limited to water wastewater system maintenance, making masonry and carpentry repairs to historic structures, beautifying historic landscapes, and structure stabilization on multiple historic structures via maintenance action team (mat) and other project work. This project completes projects at multiple parks sites (including katmai national park and preserve (AK), yosemite national park (CA), point reyes national seashore (CA), shenandoah national park (VA), and virgin islands national park (VI) by placing veterans and young adults at parks through the traditional trades advancement program. 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.