WASHINGTON, April 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $130,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Alaska Fairbanks for the monitoring glacier change in Alaska national parks. The categories of funding activity are a) environment, b) information and statistics and c) natural resources. The agency description of the cooperative agreement states: "Project Goals: * To inventory the status (surface elevations, areas, and oth  more

WASHINGTON, April 8 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $600,000 cooperative agreement to the University of Wyoming, a member of the Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit, for acoustic monitoring of bats at the Niobrara National Scenic River in Nebraska; Missouri National Recreational River in Nebraska and South Dakota; Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota; and Badlands National Park, Jewel Cave National Monume  more