August 30, 2021
Integrated Fire and Weed Management Planning through a National Parks and Protected Areas Cooperative Studies Program at Oregon State University Cascades Campus
Project ID: P18AC01347 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $55,492 Total Funding: $231,390 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project to provide support for improved evidence-based decision-making about sagebrush and bunchgrass steppe management and restoration, with an emphasis on integrating both fire and exotic plant management with the emergent concepts of resilience and resistance. The focus of the…
Summer Visitor Use and Resource Monitoring at Focal Attractions and Trails in Yellowstone National Park
Project ID: P17AC00663 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,944 Total Funding: $24,944 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Annual visitation to Yellowstone National Park has increased by more than 40% since the early 2000’s, and has spiked in recent years with a dramatic increase of 21% from 2014-16. Research shows that parking capacity and road congestion in the most heavily visited…
Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Project ID: P17AC00797 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $60,066 Total Funding: $60,066 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The NPS and SMUMN investigators will collaborate on conducting a Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA) for Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument (SAPU). This NRCA is focused on a subset of important park natural resources and resource management topics. SMUMN and NPS will collaborate…
Enable Public and Research Access to the Peter Misch Geology Collection through Cataloging and Interpretive Products
Project ID: P17AC01050 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $33,483 Total Funding: $33,483 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This project addresses cataloging and interpretation of the Peter Misch Geology Collection, which is part of the North Cascades National Park Service Complex (NOCA) museum collection. The collection was received by NOCA from the UW Earth Sciences Department in 2003. The collection reflects…
Conduct Historic Preservation Field School to Assess and Stabilize the Lost Horse Mill, Joshua Tree National Park
Project ID: P17AC01127 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $195,327 Total Funding: $280,948 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Lost Horse Mill, in the Lost Horse Mining Historic District, consists primarily of a rock crusher that deposited crushed ore into a bin directly supplying a ten-stamp mill, and during its periods of operation (1893-1908 and 1930-36) processed ore extracted from the…
Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Parks Vegetation Inventory Map Product Development
Project ID: P17AC01143 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $121,864 Total Funding: $423,566 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: A. Background As part of a national effort to develop baseline information on the status of existing natural resources, the NPS is developing vegetation maps for all the national park units in the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN). The NCCN parks include…
Landscape Architecture Design Prescriptions for the Craters of the Moon Visitor Center Picnic Area
Project ID: P17AC01225 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $9,088 Total Funding: $9,088 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (CRMO) visitor center picnic area was originally designed in 1957. It was one of several green spaces designed as part of the NPS Mission 66. As part of this effort, lawns were planted around…
Complete Historic Structure Report of the Pinnacles Bear Valley School
Project ID: P17AC01228 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,500 Total Funding: $24,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: A. Background The Bear Valley School on the east side of Pinnacles National Park (PINN) was constructed in the 1890s on land that was donated by the earliest American settler to homestead in this rural valley at the eastern foot of the Pinnacles….
Public Archaeology Field School Analysis, Archaeological Overview and Assessment, and Archaeology Outreach at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site
Project ID: P17AC01232 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $98,532 Total Funding: $145,746 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (FOVA) is an unparalleled archaeological laboratory, comprising the remains of Fort Vancouver, the ca. 1825-1860 regional headquarters and supply depot for the Hudson’s Bay Company, and Vancouver Barracks, the first (ca. 1849-2010) permanent U.S. Army post and command…
Documenting African American Migration, Segregation, and Civil Rights History at Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Hanford
Project ID: P17AC01288 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $73,065 Total Funding: $73,065 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: A. Background Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MAPR) was established in 2015 to preserve, interpret, and enhance public access to nationally significant resources associated with the Manhattan Project. The park is managed through an agreement between the NPS and the Department of Energy…
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