Begun in 1996, the program facilitates the temporary placement of geoscience professionals in parks. The NPS-BRD partnership by Denny Fenn and Mike Soukup Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program by Cindy Daly Hagerman's horse fossils saved and studied by Lissa Fox with Greg McDonald Partnerships key in securing habitat restoration grants by Pam Benjamin Partnership brings Native American employees into Park Service family by Ron Hiebert Download a 452KB PDF File of this entire chapter that is readable on Macs, PCs, and Unix machines. Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument iven current funding and staffing levels, partnerships have become a necessity in achieving management goals in parks today. These cooperative efforts can fill almost any natural resource management need, including providing funding and staff for fieldwork and acquisition of natural resource information.
Partners range from federal and state, to nongovernmental organizations and the academic community.
In 1997, many parks found alternative funding for resource management projects through grants offered by companies or environmental organizations. Some of the same sources also provided volunteers for fieldwork, allowing many projects to proceed. Within the National Park Service, several part-time liaisons have been established in recent years at the U.S. Geological Survey and Environmental Protection Agency to improve the coordination of mutually beneficial projects. The most recent of these, with the USGS Biological Resources Division, is working to help improve the knowledge used to protect park resources. On the increase, partnerships continue to help us succeed in our natural resource preservation mission.