WASHINGTON -- A National Park Service initiative will ensure the "greening'' of a new Yellowstone visitor center and allow the park a new Web-based program, more cataloguing of its collections, enhanced trout habitat and a kids' initiative, officials said Thursday.

The Centennial Initiative, which will boost the Park Service's budget leading up to its 100th anniversary in 2016, will benefit every park, officials said. It calls for $100 million in extra funding for the agency each year for the next 10 years. Another $100 million would be provided if matched by the same amount of private donations, for a potential total of $3 billion over the decade.

For Yellowstone, the funding will allow the construction of a new Old Faithful visitor center to meet higher environmental standards, Park Service Director Mary Bomar said in a conference call with reporters.

Intermountain Regional Director Mike Snyder agreed that the money will allow the visitor center construction to move forward. But he added that the Centennial Challenge money, matched by donations, will do a lot more for Yellowstone besides new buildings and infrastructure. "It goes a really long ways,'' he said.

They plan to have a Web-based interpretive program about Yellowstone for those who can't make it there in person, he said. Other plans include stepping up the cataloguing and conservation of their extensive artifact collection and enhancing the habitat of native trout.

"We have plans to look at a 'no child left inside' initiative using Yellowstone as a foundation to excite parents and let them feel free to have their kids experience the out-of-doors without fear,'' he added.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne said that children's initiative would be a model for other parks around the country. He said the corporate community wants to join the effort and is willing to put resources into it.

During the call, the executive director of the Grand Teton National Park Foundation also praised the Centennial Initiative. Leslie Mattson-Emerson noted that her foundation just completed a $13.6 million private fundraising effort for a new visitor center that will open Aug. 11, which she said can serve as a model for other public-private partnerships.

"I believe the Centennial Initiative will provide a very fresh focus, a new leverage and urgency in soliciting gifts from the private sector,'' she said. "The effort will inspire donors to reach further and increase their giving.''

Kempthorne noted that a problem arose during the planning of the Grand Teton facility that resulted in the theater being taken off the project. He learned about the problem when he visited about six months ago, he said.

"We then came back and I asked the Park Service, 'Correct this, don't be a bureaucracy,''' he said. "Since then the auditorium is back on as a go project We've learned a lot from what you've done out there at the Grand Teton.''

The first $100 million must still be approved by Congress.

Although the relevant House committee boosted the general Park Service budget over what Bush requested, it included only $50 million for the initiative for 2008. But Kempthorne said he is encouraging them to go the full $100 million.

If fully funded in 2008, the initiative will allow 1,500 permanent rangers to be brought on board around the country.

It would also allow 3,000 seasonal employees to be hired.

Kempthorne sent a report on the initiative's general nationwide goals to President Bush on Thursday. He called it a "bold and ambitious action plan.''

On Aug. 25, the Park Service's 91st anniversary, Kempthorne will release 391 centennial strategic plans, one for each park. On that date the service will also identify which centennial projects or programs will be funded in 2008.

Of the more than 2,000 projects suggested for next year, officials have identified 251 that have private sector financial support lined up. That support totals more than $300 million, Kempthorne said.

"For people that wondered if we would be able to find in the private sector sufficient funds to match up to $100 million, our problem is going to be the prioritization,'' Kempthorne said.

Park Service officials held 40 listening sessions around the country that resulted in more than 6,000 comments that helped shape the nationwide report. Officials also met with friends of the parks groups, the National Park Conservation Association and others, Kempthorne said.

Goals listed in the report included rehabilitating high-priority historic buildings, restoring native habitats, undertaking a wildlife inventory of all parks and boosting volunteerism and technology.

The Park Service also wants to demonstrate environmental leadership and energy efficiency, increase outdoor activity in part by rehabilitating more than 2,000 miles of trails, boost educational programs and become one of the top 10 places to work in America.

Kempthorne also said every park will host an annual listening session.

Bomar said the initiative has created ''a huge wave of excitement throughout the service and a new optimism at every level.''

Curt Buchholtz, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Nature Association and president of the National Park Friends Alliance, said he and his members are very excited about the initiative.

"We couldn't ask for a better proposal,'' he said.