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Youth Conservation Corps looking for summer workers

Williams resident Mario Pedraza and another YCC worker prepare for a day of work.  Wendy Howell/WGCN

Williams resident Mario Pedraza and another YCC worker prepare for a day of work. Wendy Howell/WGCN

WILLIAMS, Ariz. - High school students can help the environment while gaining some valuable work experience this summer with the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC).

Students from Williams and the surrounding area are invited to apply. The program is designed to provide youth with conservation and job skills, leader -ship opportunities, challenging project work, personal and professional growth as well as financial support for college education.

The Williams YCC crew will work with various resource divisions of the United States Forest Service to build trails, restore ecosystems and habitats, reduce fire fuels, remove fence on public lands and remove invasive weeds.

The program runs from June 6 to July 23. Corps members work Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. It starts with a weeklong campout with other YCC groups across northern Arizona, where corps members will learn first aid skills, CPR, and leave no trace outdoor ethics.

The type of work the corps members do throughout the program varies from year to year. In the past, the crew has done trail work, put up barbed wire fencing, cleared fence line for antelope migration, cleared debris from historic railroad sections, cleaned graffiti from petroglyphs at Keyhole Sink and planted trees in a burn area.

The YCC started in the 1960s. The idea stems from the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs in the 1930s that put young men to work across the country planting trees, maintaining roads and fighting fires.

To qualify, applicants must be between the ages of 16 and 18. The YCC program is a paid volunteer program, and corps members receive a stipend of $300 per week and receive a $1212 education award upon successful completion of the program.

More information can be found by contacting Judy Tincher at (928) 853-7760 or judy@conservationlegacy.org. Those interested in applying can go to www.azcorps.org/join/positions.


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