The atmospheric rivers feel like weeks ago, but the impacts of flooding continue to be felt and may for some time. Last week, four crews from the Chico, Los Padres, and Pomona centers put their flood fight training to use in Merced County. The 60 Corpsmembers filled...
What can you get out of the CCC culinary program? For most Corpsmembers, it’s a healthy, well-cooked meal at the end of a day of hard work. For those doing the cooking, it’s an opportunity to jumpstart a career in the culinary arts, or it’s just the chance at...
It’s a funny term and an unusual thing to see. A boil, aka a sand boil. These unusual occurrences happen along and on levees during times of high water, but also when seepage occurs. If left untreated, well, it’s not going to be a good thing. That’s why CCC Delta...
California Conservation Corps Corpsmembers are getting hands-on arborist training that can lead to meaningful, good paying careers. “Just show up, get paid, and learn,” said Corpsmember Patricia Arriaga Rivera. Arriaga Rivera is among 16 Corpsmembers to recently...
In a tiny town in southwest Tulare County, Corpsmembers from across the CCC are helping tell an amazing California story. Recently, California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot visited Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park to see the work firsthand, speak...
After leaving the military, Rueben Penland was looking for something. After discovering the California Conservation Corps, Rueben says he’s growing personally, professionally, and rediscovering his purpose. He started at the CCC Fortuna Center in late 2020....
Restoring and maintaining our natural areas. It’s most definitely an example of hard work. CCC Sacramento Corpsmembers are up for the task. They’re completing a dual mission at Deer Creek Hills Nature Preserve near Rancho Murieta. They’re helping protect the preserve...
Better than any gold! Corpsmember Dallana Pantajo Perez out of CCC’s Monterey Bay Center got to shake hands with President Biden who then presented her with a presidential coin. Dallana could hardly believe she was standing there with the President and him telling...
The cries of ‘bag’ and ‘got it’ are familiar to California Conservation Corps Corpsmembers past and present. Communication is an important part of how to safely and efficiently chain sandbags into place and construct sandbag structures to fight...
In between atmospheric river events, Corpsmembers with the California Conservation Corps stepped in to begin prepping communities ahead of the next round of rain and help with recovery from the first two weeks of storms in the New Year. “Everyone here is all...
