Youth Conservation Corps accepting summer applications
Youth 16 to 18-years-old can now apply for eight weeks of summer employment with the Central Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
Heart of Oregon Corps, a local non-profit, is recruiting for the education and work program, which provides natural resource employment for conservation projects on the Ochoco and Deschutes National Forests and the Crooked River National Grassland.
Nearly 100 applicants will be selected for this summer’s program where they’ll earn minimum wage while working 36 hours a week. Projects include building trails, maintaining fences, piling hazardous fuels, restoring campgrounds, improving wildlife habitat and other types of conservation work.
Youth will work nine hours a day, Monday through Thursday, from June 27 to August 18, with crews based in Crescent, La Pine, Bend, Sisters, Redmond, Prineville, Madras, and Warm Springs.
Applications must be received by May 1st and are available online at http://www.heartoforegon.org.
The Central Oregon Youth Conservation Corps program is operated by Heart of Oregon Corps in partnership with the Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council and the US Forest Service.
Funding for the 2016 program secured thus far also includes support from the United States Forest Service, United Way of Deschutes County, and the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
