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…

The National Park Service awarded American Conservation Experience a cooperative agreement valued at $119,058.23 under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931) on August 8, 2025, for a completion date of December 31, 2026. This award funds one American Conservation Experience youth intern position at Everglades National Park to provide interpretation, visitor services, and resource study support. The intern will develop community science and environmental monitoring programming while participating in outreach events including the Dark Sky Celebration and Vintage Days, and will contribute to trail and boardwalk maintenance along the park's main road corridor.

The intern will serve as a member of the park's interpretation and education team, delivering approximately 400 educational programs annually to engage up to 1,500 visitors in natural resource conservation and environmental stewardship. This cooperative agreement leverages American Conservation Experience's established capacity as a non-profit conservation corps organization to place qualified youth in meaningful conservation work while simultaneously addressing critical park resource management needs and providing career development and workforce training opportunities for the participant.

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 supports one american conservation experience youth intern to assist with interpretation, visitor services, and resource study at everglades national park. The intern will develop programming that engages visitors in community science and environmental monitoring, as well as participate in outreach and special events like the dark sky celebration and vintage days. Additionally, the intern will contribute to the parks new trails program by maintaining vegetation and boardwalks along the main park road and will be part of the interpretation and education team, delivering approximately 400 programs to engage up to 1,500 visitors. 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.