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) National Office awarded a $199,300 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) to The Great Basin Institute, through its Nevada Conservation Corps division, effective September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2028. The award supports fieldwork, data processing, and management activities associated with Yellowstone National Park's ongoing archaeological resource inventory efforts across designated plateau regions, including the Blacktail Deer Plateau, Central Plateau, and Mirror Plateau. Specific deliverables include archaeological survey and documentation work, data recovery from fieldwork investigations, and assessment of natural resource impacts from flood erosion, wildfire, and other environmental processes affecting the park's cultural resources.

The project addresses critical cultural resource stewardship needs through applied research and evidence-based management practices aligned with NPS priorities. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational and scientific institutions, and individuals. The Great Basin Institute brings specialized expertise in archaeological surveys, archival processing, and cultural resource data management services across National Park Service lands, positioning the organization to deliver the technical fieldwork and analytical support necessary to advance Yellowstone's cultural resource documentation and preservation objectives.

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 responds to the need to assist with fieldwork, processing and management of data obtained during archaeological fieldwork investigations undertaken as part of yellowstone national parks ongoing efforts to inventory its archaeological resources on the blacktail deer plateau, central plateau, mirror plateau and other areas in the park, and assess the impacts of flood erosion, wildfire and other natural processes on those resources. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational or scientific institutions, associations, and individuals.beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational or scientific institutions, associations, individuals.