Member Stories
First Weeks: Blue Smurf Pee and the Coolest Work Ever
For our crew's first project this year, we basal-sprayed buckthorn at a section of Fort Snelling State Park. The project was an ideal introduction to a typical day in Conservation Corps. Gridding allowed us to familiarize ourselves while becoming equally acquainted with the shiny bark and spiny outline of our most common foe. As we stepped from sapling to sapling, bent over, visually focusing on each silver stem and mentally trying to focus on the riddles we shared with each other to pass the time, we occasionally came across blue patches in the snow near or beneath rabbit droppings. Read More
Introducing the 2013 Field Crew bloggers
Sean Fleming Crew: Central Roving Hometown: Alexandria, Minnesota College:… Read More