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Members of the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC) work on the trails near Tally Lake in northwestern Montana. President Biden wants to retool and relaunch one of the country s most celebrated government programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps. MCC crews are already doing some of the work envisioned in Biden s climate proposal. Image credit: Claire Harbage
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With college classes going online because of COVID-19, Joe Spofforth put his double-major in political economies and educational studies on hold to move West and find work. When the pandemic was over, he’d go back.
MORE The Civilian Conservation Corps put young men back to work during the Great Depression. Here, CCC members saw down dead trees in a burned area near Belton, Mont. Photo by George A. Grant - National Park Service History Collection
With college classes going online because of COVID-19, Joe Spofforth put his double major in political economies and educational studies on hold to move West and find work. When the pandemic was over, he d go back. You can get real into this stuff, the 21-year-old Ohioan said, grinning at his mountain surroundings as his fellow Montana Conservation Corps crew members saw, chop and lop branches and logs away from a dirt path trail work.
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AmeriCorps members with Arizona Conservation Corps, a program of Conservation Legacy, make improvements on the Manning Camp Trail at Saguaro National Park.
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Amy Kuo saw firsthand how powerful it can be to tackle the big problems of our times in small ways when she was on a California Conservation Corps work crew a few years ago in the sweltering summer heat deep in a forest outside of Los Angeles. Kuo, now a legislative analyst for the corps, recalls slogging upstream, sometimes waist deep in water or poison oak, hauling gasoline, chain saws and other heavy gear to clear fallen trees and debris blocking the riverbed.
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AmeriCorps members with Arizona Conservation Corps, a program of Conservation Legacy, make improvements on the Manning Camp Trail at Saguaro National Park. Photo courtesy of the Corps Network
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Amy Kuo saw firsthand how powerful it can be to tackle the big problems of our times in small ways when she was on a California Conservation Corps work crew a few years ago in the sweltering summer heat deep in a forest outside of Los Angeles. Kuo, now a legislative analyst for the corps, recalls slogging upstream, sometimes waist deep in water or poison oak, hauling gasoline, chainsaws and other heavy gear to clear fallen trees
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