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 The Great Basin Institute a $169,250 Cooperative Agreement under the Cultural Resources Management program (CFDA 15.946) beginning September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2028. The award funds fieldwork, data processing, and management activities supporting Yellowstone National Park's response to archaeological resources damaged or exposed during the historic 2022 flood event. Deliverables include site condition assessments, updated State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) archaeological site forms, geodatabase entries, and systematic inventory and assessment documentation of archaeological resources within flood-impacted areas.

The project represents part of the NPS's broader cultural resource stewardship mandate, which supports research, operational, and educational activities across inventory, monitoring, restoration, preservation, documentation, and climate change mitigation. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized Indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational and scientific institutions, and individuals. The Great Basin Institute, a Nevada-based nonprofit specializing in natural and cultural resource management services across western federal lands, brings established expertise in archaeological surveys and data management services to this recovery and documentation initiative.

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 response efforts to document archaeological resources damaged or exposed by the historic 2022 flood event, including completing site condition assessments, updating state historic preservation offices (shpo) archaeological site forms, the parks geodatabase, and other NPS datasets through systematic inventory and assessment of archaeological resources within flood impacted areas. Beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, nonprofit organizations, educational or scientific institutions, associations, individuals.