NPS Cooperative Ecosystems Studies Units (CESU) Master Cooperative Agreements

The National Park Service (NPS) are seeking applications for Master Cooperative Agreements from CESU network participants in the following CESU network regions:

North and West Alaska

Californian

Chesapeake Watershed

Colorado Plateau

Desert Southwest

Great Basin

Great Lakes Northern Forest

Great Plains

Great Rivers

Gulf Coast

Hawaii/Pacific Islands

North Atlantic Coast

Pacific Northwest

Piedmont-South Atlantic Coast

Rocky Mountains

South Florida Caribbean

Southern Appalachian

Cooperative agreements to CESU network participants residing in CESU network regions other than those listed above will be pursued separate from this notice of funding opportunity; however, those CESU network participants may still apply for a Master Cooperative Agreement under this announcement. Application instructions are found in Section D. Application and Submission Information.

Applications will be reviewed and evaluated as they are received and may be submitted at any time up until the closing date of this announcement.

The Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units network is a national consortium of Federal agencies, tribes, academic institutions, state and local governments, nongovernmental conservation organizations, and other partners working together to support informed public trust resource stewardship. The CESU network includes 390 non-Federal partners and 15 Federal Agencies in seventeen (17) CESUs representing biogeographic regions encompassing all 50 states and U.S. territories. The CESU network is well positioned as a platform to support research, technical assistance, education and capacity building that is responsive to long-standing and contemporary science and resource management priorities.

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