Updates & Stories

Sponsor a participant in our Summer Youth Corps and change the life of a young person. A $1,000 sponsorship will fund a teenager’s four-week experience… Read More

It might have been the chainsaw that lured Hollis Emery to northeast Minnesota to serve as a crew leader in 2010. The previous year, she had left a California law firm job to serve EarthCorps in Seattle and was hooked on the Corps experience. Read More

We are forming a committee to help us plan our alumni association. We need your ideas! Please join us to brainstorm ideas and make plans… Read More

On April 2 our central office moved to the Drake Building in Saint Paul ― just across the river from downtown. Our… Read More

An Iowa field crew, dispatched to the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas for a two-week prescribed burn, found itself in a storm shelter waiting… Read More

Conservation Corps Iowa joined the nationwide celebration ofAmeriCorps Week with a Get out & Get Green event at McFarland Park on Saturday, March… Read More

In early March, 36 Conservation Corps youth program alumni, friends and family spent a Saturday afternoon volunteering with… Read More

The first few months of the year have been a flurry of activity at Conservation Corps with the hiring, orientation and training of… Read More

Bob Welsh makes a direct link between his service in Minnesota Conservation Corps in 1987 and his long career… Read More

Ames, Iowa— Conservation Corps Iowa will join the nationwide celebration of AmeriCorps Week with a community education event on Saturday, March 17, 10 a.m. to noon at McFarland Park in Ames. Read More