Providing Anthropological Planning and Resource Management Assistance about Ethnographic Resources of Yosemite National Park | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

This notice describes a National Park Service (NPS) intent to make a single, non-competitive award for a project focused on anthropological planning and resource management assistance related to ethnographic resources in Yosemite National Park. It is issued by the United States Department of the Interior and is explicitly not a request for applications, meaning the agency is not soliciting proposals from the public. Instead, it serves as a public transparency posting that the NPS plans to fund specific work under an existing cooperative framework without “full and open competition.”

The planned award would be made through a Cooperative Agreement, using Task Agreement P13AC01152 under the broader Cooperative Agreement H8W07110001. The recipient identified in the notice is Portland State University, participating as a partner within the Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (PNW CESU). CESUs are networks designed to connect federal land-management agencies with university and research partners to support applied research, technical assistance, and related capacity that helps agencies manage public lands and resources. In this case, the NPS is pointing to that partnership structure as the vehicle for carrying out the Yosemite-focused work.

The subject matter of the project centers on “ethnographic resources” at Yosemite National Park. In NPS usage, ethnographic resources generally refer to places, landscapes, natural features, objects, and associated traditions or ongoing cultural practices that have importance to living communities, including American Indian tribes and other groups with historical and present-day ties to the park. The phrasing in the opportunity title suggests the work supports planning and management decisions by bringing in anthropological and ethnographic expertise, likely to help the park identify, document, evaluate, and better consider culturally significant resources in stewardship activities, planning processes, and compliance responsibilities.

From an administrative standpoint, the opportunity is listed under Funding Opportunity Number P13AS00200 and categorized as discretionary funding. The activity categories include Humanities (with a note to see Cultural Affairs in CFDA) as well as Natural Resources, reflecting how cultural resource work in parks often overlaps with broader land and resource management. The CFDA (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance) number provided is 15.945, titled “Cooperative Research and Training Programs - Resources of the National Park System,” which aligns with cooperative, research-oriented assistance rather than a typical open, competitive grant program.

Financially, the notice reports an estimated total funding amount of $63,870 and anticipates one award. It also indicates there is no cost-sharing or matching requirement. The “award ceiling” and “award floor” fields are shown as zero, which commonly appears in notices of intent like this where the award is being handled through a specific task agreement mechanism rather than a standard competitive range with minimums and maximums.

Eligibility is listed broadly as public and state-controlled institutions of higher education, but that field is somewhat academic in this context because the notice is not open for competition and identifies Portland State University as the intended partner. The posting dates place the announcement on August 13, 2013, with an archive date of August 15, 2013. Both the original and current closing dates state “This is not a request for applications,” reinforcing that there is no application window because proposals are not being accepted.

For anyone seeking the official announcement or having trouble accessing it online, the notice provides an additional information link to Grants.gov and includes a named NPS contact: Cameron Reed, with a phone number (415-623-2253) and email (CameronReed@nps.gov).

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