Work Plan - Implementing Mutually Agreed to Projects, Programs and Activities for the benefit of Chesapeake Gateways and Trails

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Work Plan - Implementing Mutually Agreed to Projects, Programs and Activities for the benefit of Chesapeake Gateways and Trails: This is not a request for applications. This is just a public announcement that an award has already been given to The Chesapeake Conservancy Inc. for their continued work on the Work Plan – Implementing Mutually Agreed to Projects, Programs and Activities for the benefit of Chesapeake Gateways and Trails. Specifically, Chesapeake Conservancy, Inc. Agrees To: 1. Perform tasks and provide deliverables as identified in the Work Plan 2015-2016. The Conservancy and the National Park Service will jointly develop project specific detailed work plans for each item in the overall work plan. 2. Support overall trail management and coordination by conducting a continuing series of consultations at the staff, leadership, and board levels for ensuring shared strategic and annual planning, collaboration, and coordination for both organizations' activities related to the trail. 3. Explore and develop strategies for business development and revenue generation to support future trail development, programs, and management. 4. Support development and implementation of trail-related communications, including development of digital media, content, events calendar, site data updates, interpretive signage, and Bay Journeys. 5. Support trail interpretation, including implementation of an interpretive guide training program and a mobile interpretive station. 6. Support and coordinate trail conservation and planning, including implementation of the trail conservation strategy on high potential route segments, development of mapping products related to Indigenous Cultural Landscapes, providing GIS support, and assisting with segment planning as the NPS's land protection strategy partner. 7. Support collaborative large landscape conservation efforts through co-convening and staffing the Chesapeake Conservation Partnership and co-sponsoring land trust meetings in Chesapeake watershed states. The partnership, a consortium of federal and state agencies and non-governmental organizations, has been convened by NPS and the Conservancy since 2010 to support collaboration on landscape conservation. 8. Select and provide a GIS Fellow staff position to support GIS analysis and a full-time intern under contract working in NPS offices to assist in carrying out the tasks in this agreement.