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 utilize an intern work crew at NPS parks including allegheny portage national historic site, flight 93 national memorial, friendship hill national historic site and fort necessity national battlefield as part of the maintenance action team. Overall, the intern work crew will undertake the rehabilitation of a wooden porch at stutsman house, repair a gazebo and two pedestrian trail bridges on the thomas clare trail, replace roof systems of two picnic pavilions at fort necessity, and rehabilitate exterior elements of the historic lemon house tavern. The intern work crew will work with NPS preservation specialist to document existing conditions and rehabilitate elements matching existing in size and profile. 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