Youth Conservation Corps

With a team of experienced project managers, engineers and youth development leaders, Greening Youth’s Southeastern Youth Conservation Corp is uniquely qualified to execute projects and services requiring skill development and execution in Trail Design, Construction and Maintenance, Wildlife and Fisheries Management, Environmental Education, Habitat Restoration and Preservation, Storm Water and Watershed Treatment, Facility Renovation/Green Retrofit Archaeological Surveys, GIS/GPS Mapping, Historical, Cultural Resource Studies and Visitor and Interpretive Services.

The goals of GYF Youth Conservation Corps are:

(1) to nurture enthusiastic and responsible environmental stewardship among disconnected youth;

(2) to provide meaningful conservation assignments to youth participants in the areas of resource management, interpretation, community outreach and education, historic preservation and recreation programs; and

(3) to provide training and industry certification skills in habitat restoration, reforestation, storm water treatment, and environmental stewardship.

YCC is comprised of a diverse, competent corps of young enthusiastic environmentalists ages 15-25. GYF recruits from public and private high schools throughout the Southeast. GYF also has strong relationships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities throughout the country. All youth conservation corps member receive 40 hours of basic training.

Student Corps members receive training in innovative and environmentally sustainable approaches to trail planning, design and construction, new and existing trail corridors, summer and winter-use trails, and multi-use trails with paved or naturally-surfaced treadways. Corp members will learn and execute practical, low-cost and ‘low-tech’ solutions to the unique challenges faced by NPS, recognizing each state’s wide range of soil and site conditions, riparian area concerns and climatic extremes.

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