October 9th, 2024 | Raleigh, N.C. — “Conservation Corps NC is committed to developing the next generation of conservation leaders for North Carolina, and our partnership with AmeriCorps is critical to that mission,” said Jessie Birckhead, Executive Director of Conservation Corps North Carolina. “Each year over 85 AmeriCorps members serve with CCNC helping protect and conserve our state’s incredible natural resources. We are committed to helping our community recover from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. In the coming weeks and months, our staff and members will support recovery efforts and help impacted communities begin to rebuild.”

August 16, 2024 - The 2024 Partners trip, led by trip leader Jen Lair, boat operator John Napier, and assistants Nichole Sanchez and Stephen Yazzie, served two ALCC crews and based out of Arizona and New Mexico and one all-Indigenous Southwest Conservation Corps Crew based out of Colorado. The youth and young adults on this trip belonged to a diversity of Tribes in the Southwest and beyond. The group included many Navajo and Hopi crewmembers, as well as crewmembers from Lakota, Muscogee Creek, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and White Mountain Apache Tribes.

September 10th, 2024 - The Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) is sponsoring an AmeriCorps State and National Member Volunteer, Morgan Romanowski, until September 5, 2025, through a partnership between the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement (OSMRE), AmeriCorps, and the Stewards Individual Placement Program (SIPP), a Program of Conservation Legacy. We’re proud to be a national non-profit partner in Pennsylvania.

September 4, 2024 – Lynchburg Water Resources is partnering with the U.S. Forest Service in its Pedlar River Watershed Restoration Project which includes ecological investments that will improve water quality in the Pedlar River and the Pedlar Reservoir, the City of Lynchburg’s main water source.

August 30, 2024 - Carlsbad, NM – Deep beneath the desert, Carlsbad Caverns National Park holds not only a world of natural wonder, but it has also brought to the surface a new successful preservation model. With funding by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), history above ground received some much-needed care.

August 27, 2024 - Meet Olivia Smith, who is a corps member with the National Parks of Boston Climate Conservation Corps through Conservation Legacy!

Aug. 7, 2024 - On the last Monday in July, in the fields behind the Fifth Street Starbucks, a crew of sweaty high school kids is taking a mid-morning break, swigging energy water and snarfing down bags of chips (after working outside all morning, they need the salt). Their blue T-shirts say “Trailblazers.” And that’s what they are—pioneers in a pilot program to get local youth acquainted with the outdoors and maybe introduce them to careers in conservation. An added bonus: These kids are earning a paycheck while providing much-needed maintenance on the popular Rivanna Trail encircling Charlottesville.

May 13, 2024 - Imagine this: It’s 6:00 am and the sun has barely risen. The frosted tips on the blades of grass have turned into drops of morning dew. The symphony of birds increases with each day. Spring is on its way and the Appalachian Conservation Corps. is approaching the end of its Winter trail maintenance season.

May 3, 2024 - The Arizona Water Protection Fund Commission, which annually provides funding for projects to restore, maintain, and enhance river and riparian resources throughout Arizona, selected a project sponsored in part by our sister agency, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in 2022.

May 1, 2024 - There are a lot of reasons I wish I were 25 again, and now I can add President Biden’s newly launched American Climate Corps (ACC) to the list. For anyone interested in climate action, climate science, or even outdoor recreation, it’s the ultimate post-grad gap year experience.