The 2010 North Kaibab Youth Conservation Crew at Three Lakes Cabin. From left to right: Crew leaders Carrie Veety and Shari Walls, Caden Anderson, Tayler Honey, Ciara Black (kneeling), Aaron Holsten, Ian Hiscock, Tammi Tisi, James Schuster and TJ Goodnow.
Fredonia (NSFS Media Release) – On Friday, July 23, eight teenagers from Fredonia and Kanab graduated from the seven-week Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program located on the North Kaibab Ranger District of the Kaibab National Forest. During their time on the district, the participants learned a variety of forestry skills and helped forest program leaders complete some much-needed work.
The YCC program is organized through Coconino Rural Environment Corps (CREC) in Flagstaff, which is a program of the Coconino County Community Services office. This was the second year in a row that YCC was offered on the North Kaibab.
During June and July, the YCC teenagers worked 280 hours under the supervision of two full-time CREC staff and various U.S. Forest Service personnel. The students received training in emergency first aid, GPS technology, horsemanship, Leave No Trace wilderness ethics, Northern Goshawk management and timber sale administration, among other things.
The work they performed included:
-Marking and numbering 14.6 miles of flagged cutting unit boundaries with tracer tree paint in the Warm Fire Recovery Area.
-Brushing around 20 miles of the Rainbow Rim Trail, the Arizona Trail, and the North Canyon Trail.
-Post-fire fence repair in the Warm Fire Recovery Area.
-Watershed channel rehabilitation.
-Preparing for construction of livestock-wildlife water catchments.
-Transporting 200 bales of hay for district horses.
YCC members are paid a stipend of $590 every two weeks, and 17 and 18 year old members are also eligible to receive an AmeriCorps Education Award of $1,000 upon successful completion of an additional 20 volunteer hours. Four of the participants this summer will receive the AmeriCorps scholarship.
For more information about the Coconino Rural Environment Corps program, visit www.crecweb.org.
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