Mostly at a park level, projects encompass a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities across all aspects of cultural resource stewardship activities, including but not…

The National Park Service (NPS) awarded a Cooperative Agreement totaling $126,999.70 to The Great Basin Institute under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) to support archival processing and museum operations at Zion National Park. Awarded on July 29, 2025, with a completion date of January 31, 2027, this multi-year project funds an archivist position for approximately 66 weeks to process an estimated 60 linear feet of Zion National Park resource management archives and create a publicly accessible finding aid for publication on the park website.

Beyond primary archival responsibilities, the awarded funding supports an array of operational and stewardship activities including monthly integrated pest management and environmental monitoring tasks, accessioning and loan documentation management, processing incoming research permits, responding to research requests, conducting annual inventories, and providing general curatorial support. The cooperative agreement is designed to benefit state and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational and scientific institutions, and the general public through enhanced access to cultural resource documentation and improved archive management at the park level.

Mostly at a park level, projects encompass a broad range of research, operational, and educational activities across all aspects of cultural resource stewardship activities, including but not limited to inventory, monitoring, research, rehabilitation, reconstruction, restoration, preservation, documentation, data recovery, education, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. This project is a multi-year project for an archivist to work for approximately sixty-six weeks to complete archive projects in collaboration with national park service museum and archives professionals. The archivist will be engaged in the processing of an estimated 60 linear feet of zion national park resource management archives and create and publish a finding aid on the park website accessible to researchers and the public. The archivist will also perform monthly tasks associated with integrated pest management, and environmental monitoring, accessioning, updating or generating loan documentation, working with incoming research permits, answering research requests, conducting annual inventories, and assisting the museum curator with a variety of duties as they arise.beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational or scientific institutions, associations, individuals.