Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS DOIP18AC00202
This funding opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) notice of intent to award a cooperative agreement to support a youth conservation crew working at Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park, specifically within the Dyea and Chilkoot Trail National Historic Landmark Unit in Alaska. The project is titled "Conservation crew to work on Historic Dyea Town Site and Chilkoot Trail Restoration/Canyon City Campground Rehabilitation" and is designed to tackle a backlog of maintenance and restoration needs on the historic Chilkoot Trail and associated visitor-use areas during a six-week mid-summer field season. The effort is structured as a partnership between NPS and the Student Conservation Association (SCA), leveraging SCA's long history of conservation service to supply and support crew members who will work alongside NPS staff.
The legal basis for the award comes from the Public Lands Corps authority (16 USC 1723(c)), which allows the Secretary of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with qualified youth or conservation corps to carry out conservation projects on public lands. The opportunity is categorized as discretionary funding and uses a cooperative agreement instrument, reflecting the hands-on, shared-responsibility nature of the work where both NPS and the partner organization contribute to planning, supervision, and outcomes.
The core of the project is intensive, on-the-ground trail and campground work along the Chilkoot Trail corridor, with a major focus on the Canyon City area. Planned tasks include rehabilitating existing trail segments, restoring or closing down "social trails" (informal user-created paths that can damage vegetation and spread impacts), and performing brushing and general trail maintenance to improve safety, protect resources, and maintain the historic character of the route. The scope also includes constructing a moldering privy at Finnegan's Point Campground, building raised structures where needed (typically to protect wet or fragile ground and reduce erosion), and installing bear boxes at Canyon City Campground to improve food storage and reduce human-wildlife conflicts. In addition, the crew may assist with revegetating disturbed areas, including shoulders along the newly improved Dyea Road and trails within the Historic Dyea Town Site, helping stabilize soils and restore native plant cover.
Field logistics are a major part of the agreement because the work occurs in remote and backcountry settings. The crew is expected to live and work on-site, including overnight backcountry assignments. For Chilkoot Trail operations, the park will support a spike camp setup and provide key infrastructure and safety equipment such as bear-resistant food and gear containers, a cook tent, latrine facilities, stoves and fuel, and helicopter transport to and from the spike camp. When working closer to Dyea, the crew will camp at the park campground with standard facilities. All travel is handled under NPS invitational travel procedures on a no-cost basis, with the expectation that the travel directly supports federal project purposes.
Responsibilities are split clearly between SCA and NPS. SCA is responsible for recruiting and helping select the Conservation Associates, providing transportation to and from the park, and covering subsistence during the work period. SCA also provides participant support, including a living allowance, insurance coverage, and AmeriCorps education awards when applicable, plus organizational oversight through a staffed 24/7 hotline, site visits, and performance evaluations. NPS, in turn, provides financial assistance of approximately $51,154.42 (with an award ceiling listed as $51,155), supplies orientation to park operations and the NPS mission, and delivers safety training and field guidance. NPS also assigns a technical representative (named in the notice as Aric Baldwin) to support on-site coordination and provide project direction, provides space for living quarters, and supplies the tools, equipment, and materials necessary to complete the work. At the end of the project, NPS will produce a written completion evaluation assessing outcomes and performance.
Administratively, the opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number NPS DOIP18AC00202) was posted by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service, under CFDA 15.931 and is limited to eligible applicants that are nonprofit organizations with IRS 501(c)(3) status (excluding institutions of higher education). The posting indicates an expected single award. The opportunity was created April 25, 2018, with an original closing date of May 10, 2018, and it functions as a continuation and task-level implementation under an existing overarching cooperative agreement (P15AC00031) between NPS and SCA. Overall, the grant supports a practical workforce-and-training model where young conservation participants gain experience while delivering concrete improvements to trail conditions, visitor facilities, and natural and cultural resource protection along one of the most historically significant routes of the Klondike Gold Rush.Apply for NPS DOIP18AC00202
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the employment, labor and training sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Conservation crew to continue work on the Historic Chilkoot Trail and Historic" 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 Apr 25, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by May 10, 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 $51,155.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education.
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