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If you frequent some of our state’s great museums and indoor spaces, you may not pay too close attention to the lighting. Fortunately, CCC Sacramento Energy Corpsmembers are illuminated on which bulbs go where and how much wattage and energy they use. Crews have...
Where else can you try out various career fields in natural resources—and get paid while training? The California Conservation Corps, of course. It’s exactly what CCC Tahoe Corpsmember Jasmine Lyons was looking for after graduating high school last year. She...
Make no mistake. Training for and fighting wildland fires is exhausting work. After months of prep, CCC Magalia Fire Center Corpsmembers are through their annual readiness drill and ready to take on whatever this fire year has in store. So, why do Corpsmembers go...
Corpsmembers regularly fell trees, build burn piles, and help improve our local, state, and national forests. At the CCC Chico Center, they’re taking that work and knowledge to the next level in the Forestry Corps. Working with Big Chico Creek Ecological...
Learning to fight fire with dirt is a bit surreal, but once you get the education it all makes sense. For CCC Placer Corpsmember Chantal Lopez, she’s getting the experience and education of a lifetime. It’s hard work, but Chantal knows her four-foot scrape...
The first week of May may be Wildfire Preparedness Week, but the preparations for fire season have been weeks and months in the making. Training hikes. Training cuts. Fuel reduction projects. Classroom studying. All of it leads to the crew readiness exercises and,...
“The season is upon us and there’s a lot of work to do Fire season is now year-round, but come May—and in the midst of drought—the threat of wildfire really increases. “The season is upon us and there’s a lot of work to do,” said CCC...
Getting prepared for wildfire is a year-round endeavor. The California Conservation Corps helps do this by removing and reducing the fuel for wildfires. This winter, CCC Ukiah Corpsmembers helped reinforce fire roads and prepare for controlled burns by reducing...
A year in the California Conservation Corps can lead you on a Path to Success. Don’t just take our word for it, take it from one of our alumni. Saira Ramos spent nearly two years at the CCC Monterey Bay Center and turned that into a forestry aide job with...
It may be cliché, but it’s true. Many hands really do make light work. For the last few months, crews from the CCC Solano and CCC Sacramento centers kept busy working with our California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) partners distribute...
