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. The project at sleeping bear dunes national lakeshore will focus on horticulture and cultural landscape management, particularly through conservation grazing using a goat herd and other traditional practices. Youth work participants will collaborate with the parks historical architect and skilled professionals who are educators in these traditional skills. The internship program, in partnership with the local youth corps, will utilize goats for the removal of invasive species in challenging terrains that are unsuitable for conventional equipment, effectively addressing the spread of autumn olive and knapweed in historic park districts. Future projects aim to expand these efforts to include the removal of poison IVY from campgrounds, further enhancing the park S natural landscape. 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.