Opportunity Information: Apply for NPS NOIP18AC00094
The Ice Age National Scientific Reserve - IATR grant opportunity is a National Park Service (NPS) cooperative agreement designed to carry out a mandate established by Congress in 1964. Under that law, the Secretary of the Interior is directed to work jointly with the State of Wisconsin to administer the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve. In practical terms, this funding supports a formal partnership between the U.S. Department of the Interior (through NPS) and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) so both agencies can coordinate stewardship, public use, and long-term planning for a nationally significant landscape shaped by continental glaciation.
The core purpose of the opportunity is to help WDNR protect, preserve, and interpret Wisconsin's glacial landforms and related natural features. The grant emphasizes the conservation and explanation of key remnants of the Ice Age, including moraines, eskers, kames, kettle holes, drumlins, swamps, lakes, and other glaciation-derived features. These are treated not just as local natural resources, but as nationally significant examples of continental glaciation that warrant active management, protection from degradation, and thoughtful interpretation for the public.
A second major focus is public access and education. The opportunity is intended to support efforts that make these glacial landscapes understandable and accessible, helping visitors and residents learn how the landforms were created and why they matter. This includes the idea of providing outstanding recreational and educational opportunities for all Americans, which typically aligns with projects like visitor information and interpretation, educational programming, signage and wayfinding, improved access to sites, and other public-facing improvements that connect people with the Reserve's scientific and natural values while encouraging responsible recreation.
A third goal is to strengthen joint planning and research by ensuring NPS and WDNR can operate in a coordinated, mutually reinforcing way. The language of the notice highlights "concerted" action and cooperation in sponsoring and directly pursuing improved planning and research, indicating the funding is meant to support collaborative work rather than isolated, single-agency efforts. This can include coordinated management planning, resource inventories, scientific studies, monitoring approaches, and other activities that improve how the Reserve is managed over time, while keeping both state and federal partners aligned.
Administratively, this was a discretionary funding opportunity offered as a cooperative agreement, which generally signals substantial involvement by the federal agency during the project period rather than a hands-off pass-through award. The eligible applicant pool was limited to state governments, and the intended recipient in this context is Wisconsin (via WDNR) working with NPS. The opportunity falls under the Environment and Natural Resources funding activity category and is associated with CFDA number 15.944. The posted award ceiling was $3,700,000, with one award expected. The opportunity was created on April 13, 2018, with an original closing date of April 27, 2018, under funding opportunity number NPS NOIP18AC00094, issued by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service.Apply for NPS NOIP18AC00094
- The Department of the Interior, National Park Service in the environment, natural resources sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Ice Age National Scientific Reserve- IATR" and is now available to receive applicants.
- Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 15.944.
- This funding opportunity was created on Apr 13, 2018.
- Applicants must submit their applications by Apr 27, 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 $3,700,000.00 in funding.
- The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 1 candidate(s).
- Eligible applicants include: State governments.
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