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 (NPS), under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded a $148,055.24 cooperative agreement to The Great Basin Institute's Nevada Conservation Corps division on August 20, 2025. This award supports youth intern positions and associated conservation activities at a national park location in Springdale, Utah, with a completion date of December 31, 2026. The institute will deploy two youth interns to assist park operations staff with fee collection, campground reservations, vehicle orientation, preventative search and rescue (PSAR) coordination, visitor information services, and digital asset management for park website and social media platforms.

The award directly enhances visitor safety and park experience while providing meaningful career development and skills training for participating youth interns. Through this cooperative agreement, The Great Basin Institute delivers conservation and education services that support critical park operations and natural resource management on Department of the Interior lands. The program benefits diverse stakeholders including the general public, students, families, and non-profit organizations engaged in youth career training and natural and cultural resource conservation and management.

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 will improve the visitors safety and park experience. Two youth interns will assist fees program staff in the fee collection, campground reservations, vehicle orientation, conduct preventative search and rescue (psar), provide visitors park information, and create update fees information and assets for the park website and social media. 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.