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Developing Skills with the Los Piños Culinary Program

Cooking meals for 60 hungry Corpsmembers is most certainly not like getting dinner ready at home for yourself. At the CCC Los Piños Center, it’s early to rise each day for the culinary crew and hours of hard work and lessons. From chopping skills to measurements, meal...

Protecting Shaver Lake a Year After the Creek Fire

For many who live in and around Shaver Lake, this Labor Day Weekend a summer celebration may be the last thing on their minds. The Creek Fire tore through the community nearly a year ago to the day. Hundreds of homes lost, and thousands of acres of forest burned. “I...

Solano Forestry Corps Helping Replant California’s Forests

The flames are out. The forest is decimated. This is where the CCC Solano Forestry Corps is helping make a difference. Corpsmembers are assisting our partners at the L.A. Moran Reforestation Center in Davis care and prepare seedlings for re-planting of the...

When Wildfires Ignite, CCC Corpsmembers Eagerly Respond

California Conservation Corps Corpsmembers are set to put in a record number of hours to help put out the state’s intensifying wildfires. In the last 12 months, Corpsmembers have worked more than a million hours fighting wildfires. Much of the battle is being fought...

SoCal Strike Team Tackles Challenges, Caldor Fire

Swinging hand tools and running a chain saw as flames flicker mere feet away. It’s hard to describe the experience as anything other than ‘intense.’ It’s what our CCC Pomona and CCC San Diego fire crews have been doing the past week on the Caldor Fire in El...