Closed · P18AS00130 · CFDA 15.945 · Discretionary

Test and Apply Stone Conservation Methods to Stabilize Disintegrating Petrified Stumps

Federal grant opportunity posted by National Park Service, cataloged on Grants.gov.

up to $50K
Award range
Closed
Status
April 19, 2018
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Test and Apply Stone Conservation Methods to Stabilize Disintegrating Petrified Stumps is a closed discretionary listing from National Park Service that offered Up to $49,800 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 8,506 other opportunities from National Park Service.

up to $50K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
15.945
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Test and Apply Stone Conservation Methods to… is closed (last close April 19, 2018). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. National Park Service still indexes 8,506 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed April 19, 2018

Posted Apr 10 Closes Apr 19

Est. Total Funding

$49,800

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Cooperative Agreement

Description

(1) This project will examine and test the feasibility of stabilizing large petrified redwood stumps using established methods of stone conservation. The petrified stumps at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (FLFO) are the fundamental resource of the park. Of the approximately 30 stumps, five of these are actively deteriorating due to cracking, spalling and the loss of large fragments of petrified wood. Several stumps have many deep multidimensional fractures apparently resulting from the use of dynamite during their original excavation, and subsequent weathering including freeze-thaw cycling. They are exposed to accelerated natural and man-made weathering processes. Currently, vulnerable portions of the stumps are held in place only by steel banding that keeps loose fragments together. Risks to the stumps persist due to the combined action of freeze-thaw (loosening of fragments and spalling), gravity (falling of fragments), biological interactions (fracturing and defacement as a result of factors such as plant growth, burrows, and excrement), and theft (loss of fragments that are within reach of visitors). Possible ground salts activated through moisture, may also be a factor.

Campus applicant desk · Natural Resources

Grants.gov prints only higher-education applicant doors for Test and Apply Stone Conservation Methods to… (Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education). This reads as a campus competition desk, not a civic or commercial open call. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Cooperative Agreement. Funding-activity code maps to Natural Resources (NR). 1,235 other National Park Service listings share this eligibility-code string (15% of 8,507).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education

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