The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $172,391.70 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) to Yosemite Management Group, LLC on April 3, 2025. This award facilitates the administrative use of an office building in Mariposa, California that is essential for park administration and visitor services within Yosemite National Park. The Natural Resource Stewardship program is the NPS's primary means of evaluating and improving the health of watersheds,...
This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) provides $517,758 to support 67 non-federal short-term positions for a total of 1,724 weeks in 58 park units and programs. The participants will conduct a variety of natural resource management projects that advance the NPS mission, including species surveys, habitat assessments, data collection, data analysis, and reporting on wildlife management, wildland fire...
Under the Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service (NPS) through the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944), The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will work cooperatively to facilitate the environmental and ecological restoration and conservation of ranchlands within Point Reyes National Seashore. The $1,000,000 award, with a performance period from January 8, 2025 to January 7, 2030, will support ranchland transition, development and implementation of a conservation...
The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service awarded a $100,000 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Wyoming's Sponsored Programs to support the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program. This 5-year project will facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products across the National Park System. Specifically, the agreement will operationalize the "Defend the Core, Grow the Core"...
Conservation Science Partners, Inc. will receive $344,930 under a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Park Service through the Cooperative Research and Training Programs – Resources of the National Park System federal grant program (CFDA 15.945). The company will evaluate and assess natural resource conditions in national parks by writing one or more natural resource condition assessment reports, assisting with resource evaluations and ranking, summarizing data and information,...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the National Park Service (NPS) under the Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System (CFDA 15.945) program provides $661,152.38 in funding to Colorado State University (CSU) to develop a comprehensive spatial geodatabase and technical reports to inform science-based management of the National Park System. The key products and services to be delivered under this 4.5-year award include: 1) creating a spatial...
The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a $309,291.86 Cooperative Agreement under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944) to the Point Reyes National Seashore Association (PRNSA), a non-profit organization, to support natural resource conservation efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area network of national parks. Through this award, PRNSA will jointly fund a botanist and biological technician with NPS to conduct vegetation surveys, monitor rangelands and invasive plants, and...
This $1,043,000 Cooperative Agreement award, granted by the National Park Service (NPS) under the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944), supports post-fire invasive plant control and restoration efforts in the Santa Monica Mountains region. The awardee, Santa Monica Mountains Fund, will deliver a range of natural resource management and conservation services, including native habitat restoration, invasive species control, ecological monitoring, and youth conservation programs. Key...
The National Park Service awarded a $270,300 cooperative agreement to the Mississippi Park Connection on September 16, 2022 through the Natural Resource Stewardship program (CFDA 15.944). The project will develop best management practices to maintain and restore floodplain forest habitat along the Mississippi River in Minnesota through September 2025. As the principle means by which NPS evaluates and improves watershed, landscape, and coastal resource health while sustaining biological...
The University of Alaska Fairbanks will support geologic resource management in Alaska's national parks under a $1.32 million cooperative agreement from the National Park Service. Awarded on July 15, 2021 and running through December 31, 2025, this funding through the NPS's Natural Resource Stewardship program will support the development of geologic resources inventory reports. As the principal means for NPS to evaluate and improve landscape and marine resources on lands and waters within...