NOTICE OF INTENT: Hope Camp Youth Conservation Project

Post Date

June 30th 2015

Application Due Date

July 9th 2015

Funding Opportunity Number

P15AS00185

CFDA Number(s)

15.931

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement

Funding Activity Categories

Natural Resources

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Other

Non-competitive Notice of Intent to Award

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $24000

• Award Range:

  $24000 - $24000

Grant Description

The Hope Camp Conservation project aims to provide local Arizona youth with summer employment working on a conservation project at Hope Camp in the backcountry of Saguaro National Park. Youth will help repair a length of fence that marks the boundary between the National Park wilderness and State Trust land. In doing so, they will learn valuable job skills, including but not limited to working as a team under difficult conditions, the safe handling and use of a variety of tools, and Leave No Trace ethics. They will also learn about the ecological impact that domesticated livestock have on the land, and why it is important to conserve wilderness areas, particularly in a unique desert ecosystem like Saguaro. By working with American Conservation Experience (ACE) to complete this project, Saguaro National Park fulfills all three goals of the 21CSC - providing service, employment and educational opportunities to youth, preserving and protecting America's Best Idea, and developing the next generation of active and educated stewards for our parks.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of the Interior

• Office:

  National Park Service

• Agency Contact:

  Todd Wilson
  Grants Management Specialist

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Work Email

• Agency Email Address:

  todd_wilson@nps.gov

• More Information:

  http://www.grants.gov