by Chris Van Horne | May 7, 2025 | News, Wildland Firefighting
Using Fire Redding Corpsmembers on the Shasta 1 fire crew use McLeods to help keep a burn pile contained and smoldering during a fuel reduction project. Preparing for wildfire is year-round effort. When the CCC Redding Shasta 1 fire crew isn’t responding to...
by Chris Van Horne | May 6, 2025 | News, Resource Conservation
Creating Space Creating defensible space meeting the new Zone 0 standard, Corpsmembers used shovels and loppers to remove any piece of vegetation growing within five feet of state buildings. Long before a wildfire ignites, we all can be prepared for the worst. Our CCC...
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...