Fuels Management Interns- THRO | NPS NOIP18AC00513

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The grant opportunity titled "Fuels Management Interns- THRO" (Funding Opportunity Number NPS NOIP18AC00513) is a National Park Service cooperative agreement focused on reducing hazardous wildland fuels on federal lands, with a strong workforce development and youth stewardship component. Its core purpose is practical on-the-ground fuels treatment, using mechanical methods and/or prescribed fire to lower wildfire risk and improve overall landscape conditions. Alongside that primary fuels mission, the program is designed to strengthen collaboration among partners and to create meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities for young people who want to work in natural resource management.

A central theme of the project is engaging youth in real-world conservation work that has visible results. Participants are intended to move beyond classroom learning by taking part directly in natural, cultural, and historical resource efforts tied to their communities and surrounding public lands. The opportunity is structured to motivate youth to become long-term stewards of public resources, building skills and professional exposure through field-based projects and operational experience.

The work described emphasizes fuels reduction and prescribed fire operations that support the health of mixed-grass prairie and badlands ecosystems. Youth crew members, primarily drawn from the NDFS crews facilitated by North Dakota State University, would participate in activities that create tangible ecological benefits, such as improving habitat conditions and reducing accumulated vegetation that can contribute to severe wildfire behavior. The crews would work in cooperation with North Dakota Group park resource management staff, reflecting the grant's secondary objective of building collaborative working relationships between educational partners and federal land managers.

From an administrative standpoint, this is a discretionary funding opportunity offered by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, using a cooperative agreement as the funding instrument, which typically implies substantial involvement by the federal partner during planning and implementation. The listed eligible applicants are state governments. The opportunity is associated with CFDA number 15.931 and falls under activity categories that include environment and natural resources as well as community development and employment, labor, and training, reinforcing that the program is both an operational land management effort and a workforce pipeline for youth.

Key timing and funding details include a posting (creation) date of July 5, 2018, and an original closing date of July 20, 2018. The anticipated award structure indicates one expected award, with an award ceiling of $300,000, suggesting a single project or partnership arrangement intended to support a defined cohort of interns/crew members and the equipment, training, and coordination needed to carry out fuels work and prescribed fire-related activities safely and effectively.

• The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the community development, employment, labor and training, environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Fuels Management Interns- THRO" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.931.
• This funding opportunity was created on Jul 05, 2018.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jul 20, 2018. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $300,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: State governments.

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