Yellowstone National Park will receive $1.4 million for children’s programs, an online learning center, artifact preservation and scientific exploration thanks to $700,000 in matching funds from the Yellowstone Park Foundation.

The Federal government approved the match as part of the Bush Administration’s Centennial Challenge, an effort to infuse national parks around the country with funding in time for the Park Service centennial in 2016. Congress appropriated $24.6 million for the effort this year.

“The Centennial Challenge presents an opportunity for those who love Yellowstone to increase the impact of their donations,” said Paul Zamber-nardi, Executive Director of the Yellowstone Park Foundation. “These federal matching funds will significantly enhance four very distinct and important projects in Yellowstone this year.”

The projects include the park’s No Child Left Inside program, an initiative designed to help youth in the Yellowstone region better connect with the natural world. A grant from the Toyota USA Foundation to the Yellowstone Park Foundation will be matched by $80,230 in federal funds.

Part of the money will go toward the Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center, an online program designed to integrate the work of the park, aca-demic and scientific communities in collaborative efforts to gather and use information to better protect and manage places like Yellowstone National Park. A grant from Canon U.S.A. to the Yellowstone Park Foundation will be matched by $115,000 in federal funds for the project.

Another grant from Canon U.S.A. will be matched by $79,528 in federal funds for the protection and preservation of more than 40,000 artifacts housed in Yellowstone’s Heritage & Research Center.

The remaining money will go toward a scientific study on Yellowstone Lake’s microbial biodiversity. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation pledged $459,000 to the Yellowstone Park Foundation for a federal match.