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The Natural Resource Challenge allocated $1.6 million in FY 2001 to establish four new cooperative ecosystem studies units (CESUs). The new units cover the Pacific Northwest (including Southeast Alaska), Desert Southwest, Great Plains, and South Florida/Caribbean. They join four CESUs that were established in 1999, covering the Colorado Plateau, Rocky Mountains, Southern Appalachian Mountains, and North Atlantic Coast. CESUs provide research, technical assistance, and education to national parks and other federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. They also provide support in biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences needed to address resource issues in an ecosystem context. Thirty-eight universities and other institutions are involved in the four new CESUs. Nine federal agencies and 61 host and partner institutions are currently included in the CESU network. | |
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This material is from Natural Resource Year in Review--2000, published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in May 2000 (publication D-1459)
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Last Updated: 06/17/2001
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