by Beth Hotchkiss | May 5, 2025 | News, Wildland Firefighting
Fire Ready A Los Piños fire crew starts its annual readiness hike covering more than three miles in a specific time. It’s part of how CCC fire crews get fire ready! Are you ready for wildfire? Young adults from the California Conservation Corps certainly are! “I...
by Beth Hotchkiss | May 2, 2025 | News, Resource Conservation
“I didn’t know what any of the wire colors meant. Now I definitely have more knowledge of the wires and what they do and their purpose.” Alex FloresVista Center It’s amazing the difference a new light fixture. Of course, a newer, brighter LED will...
by Chris Van Horne | Mar 28, 2025 | News, Trails
Delta Trail Crew Delta Center Corpsmembers use chisels to shape rocks for a safer, sturdier trail in Henry Coe State Park. It’s a job that rocks — literally — and CCC Delta Corpsmembers are seeing the possibilities of a career with California State Parks. Working on...
by Chris Van Horne | Mar 14, 2025 | Emergency Response, News
‘Race Against Time’: Corpsmembers Rush to Protect Against Med Fly Corpsmembers from the CCC Tahoe Center work together to gather fruit off trees in a quarantine zone in Northern California. An old nemesis of California agriculture arrived in the South Bay late last...
by Chris Van Horne | Mar 7, 2025 | Habitat Restoration, News
Protecting Wildlife by Reducing Debris Flows in Park Fire Burn Scar Chico Corpsmembers pass each other rocks as they move the naturally present material into place to create catch basins to filter water and mud flows from directly entering Big Chico Creek. In the wake...
by Chris Van Horne | Feb 26, 2025 | Culinary, News
Usually to see CCC Culinary Corpsmembers in action, you need to join a CCC residential center. For one day, and one day only, leaders at the California Natural Resources Agency got to see, and taste, the skills the CCC instills in their own place of work. Corpsmember...