Updates & Stories
Native Women Have a Big Voice
By Anna Fairbanks, Agriculture and Water Outreach Specialist Individual Placement / AmeriCorps member placed with Cottonwood SWCD March is Women’s History Month!… Read More
Corps Alum and Business Owner: Kesley Ebbs
Meet Kesley Ebbs, who served a summer term and two full-year terms with Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa. Since finishing his last service term with the… Read More
Mapping and Cut-stumping Buckthorn
By Cyrus Bird-Walker, Brainerd Field Crew Leader / AmeriCorps Member Buckthorn is an invasive species originating from Eurasia brought to Minnesota for shrubbery in gardens and… Read More
Thanks for an Unforgettable Summer
By Madeline Peterson, Anoka Field Crew Leader / AmeriCorps Member I can’t believe February 1st was over six months ago. It seems like only yesterday… 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
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
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
Insectivorous plants and psychedelic rocks
By Alexis Wyss, Moose Field Crew Member / AmeriCorps Member Here are some photos of the Moose Crew! In the photo of us going… Read More
The Joys of Spring
By Cyrus Bird-Walker, Brainerd Field Crew Leader / AmeriCorps Member My crew and I spent several weeks working with The Nature Conservancy doing prescribed burns. Read More
Where Are They Now? Alumni Highlight: Noah Korpi
During high school in 2018 and 2019, Noah spent two summers with Summer Youth Corps (SYC), spending the second summer on Isle Royale with the… Read More