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The Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) is a paid summer youth work program in federally managed lands. The National Park Service, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Land Management employ teens each summer to participate in the YCC. The YCC has introduced young Americans to conservation opportunities in public lands since ...
Public Law 93-408, a part of which is known as the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970, [1] is an American statute that established the Youth Conservation Corps (YCC). It was established in 1974 by the 93rd United States Congress and President Gerald Ford as Public Law 93-408, an act to amend the Youth Conservation Corps Act of 1970.
The Public Land Corps (PLC) is a work and education program for young people and veterans that is run by the United States land management agencies in association with state conservation and service corps.
Secretary of the Interior Gale A. Norton re-launched Take Pride in America in April 2003 [10] under the USA Freedom Corps, a council for service opportunities. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] As with the Reagan Administration, the George W. Bush Administration and Secretary Norton were being criticized for expanding the exploitation of Federal lands for ...
Jun. 7—The I-20 Wildlife Preserve will enlarge its outdoor classroom this summer when it welcomes eight Midland high school students into the 2024 Conservation Job Corps program. Accepted into ...
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
The She-She-She Camps were camps in the United States for unemployed women. The camps were organized by Eleanor Roosevelt as a female counterpart to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) programs designed for unemployed men. Roosevelt found that the men-only focus of the CCC program left out young women who were willing to work in conservation ...
The Conecuh Trail winds 20 miles (30 km) through Alabama's coastal plain. The trail was built by the Youth Conservation Corps. Each year, beginning in 1976, the young people of the Corps extend the trail through park-like longleaf pine stands, hardwood bottomlands, and other plant communities of the Conecuh National Forest.