Updates & Stories
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Bella Araiza, Recruitment Capacity Building Specialist Individual Placement / AmeriCorps Member If you are a nature lover like I am, you probably… Read More
Then and Now: Stories with the Corps
By D’artagnan Johnson, Youth Outdoors Crew 6 Member / AmeriCorps Member Recently I came across an interesting article that talked about my great-grandfather’s… Read More
Serving in a Skatepark
by Austin Godwin, Iowa Polk Field Crew Member / AmeriCorps Member Here in Polk county we had prepared for the Dew tour. This was a… Read More
A Summer at Shalom
By Lucy Tschida, Youth Outdoors Crew 6 Member / AmeriCorps Member Days for the Youth Outdoor 6 crew vary vastly. Our mornings typically… Read More
How I Gained Confidence Exploring the Outdoors Solo
By Ashley Rezachek, Communications Outreach Specialist Individual Placement / AmeriCorps Member placed at MN DNR Scientific and Natural Areas Program. It would be inaccurate to… Read More
Barbed Wire: Search and Destroy
By Cyrus Bird-Walker, Brainerd Field Crew Leader / AmeriCorps Member July started out on our second week with Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge. Our project… Read More
Prairie Restoration and Pocket-sized Toads
By Madeline Peterson, Anoka Field Crew Leader / AmeriCorps Member Summer is in full swing! The days are long and hot, and there’s a lot… Read More
From CCC to Now
By D’artagnan Johnson, Youth Outdoors Crew 6 Member / AmeriCorps Member The Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program established in 1933… Read More
An Ode to Leafy Spurge
By Lucy Tschida, Youth Outdoors Crew 6 Member / AmeriCorps Member After a couple demanding weeks of pulling introduced (“invasive”) species in the metro… Read More