AmeriCorps Returns to the Canyon Lakes Ranger District in 2015
Release Date: Feb 25, 2015
Contact(s): Reghan Cloudman
FORT COLLINS, Colo.– The Canyon Lakes Ranger District is excited to once again welcome an AmeriCorps crew here in 2015 to help with hazardous fuels reduction work and firefighting efforts. The crew arrived last Friday. This is the fifth year the district has hosted a crew.
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage Americans in intensive service to meet the nation’s critical needsin education, public safety, health and the environment. This AmeriCorps Team is comprised of 10 young adults between the ages of 19 and 24 and provides an enormous service to the U.S. Forest Service. Members of the team are from all across the United States.
The Forest Service provides necessary training and housing for the crew, as well as a liaison to assist the team lead with supervision and assignments. The team will stay at the district’s Fort Collins Administrative Site during its first tour from Feb. 20 to April 8 and then at the Redfeather Work Center during a second period from April 22 to July 15.
In addition to supplementing the district’s firefighting resources, the team is available to help with other projects across the district. In past years this has included noxious weed surveys and monitoring; old fence removal on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District; and fence building on the Pawnee National Grassland.
For more information about AmeriCorps, check their website at http://www.americorps.gov/.
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