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$1.3M Getty Grant will Protect and Preserve Wupatki National Monument
Ancestral LandsSeptember 22, 2021 | "As part of its engagement at Wupatki, the Penn team and partners will also expand professional training, cultural heritage education, and career discovery opportunities for Native youth focused on the conservation of American Indian ancestral sites, including a 12-week summer program in partnership with Conservation Legacy’s Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps. The program will incorporate fieldwork, job shadowing, and mentoring by cultural resources advisors from Northern Arizona Tribes and a 10-week summer internship program for Native degree-seeking students through Northern Arizona University."
Source: Native News Online
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On your next hike, spare a thought for the trail builders who made it possible
September 15th, 2021 | "You don’t see them as you kick through the leaves on your hike. You won’t see them as you squeeze through an inviting crevice between two boulders to discover what’s beyond. Don’t look for them as you pedal toward a perfectly placed berm or you may tumble off your bike. Just know that the people responsible for the thrilling ride and the beckoning passageway, the people who plan where you will step and what you will view — they see you. These trail workers are the unseen architects guiding your interaction with the great outdoors."
Source: The Washington Post
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Conservation Legacy is proud to announce Ancestral Lands as the recipient of the 2021 Outdoor Retailer Inspiration Award in the nonprofit category.
Ancestral LandsAugust 12, 2021 | The 11th Annual Outdoor Retailer Inspiration Awards celebrate champions of the outdoor community who inspire and encourage others to enjoy, participate in, and support outdoor recreation. Annual awards are presented to individuals, organizations, and companies within the outdoor recreation industry. This year’s recipients have been announced at the virtual ceremony, which occurred on Wednesday, August 11, 2021, in conjunction with the Outdoor Retailer summer market in Denver.
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An Uplifting Evening
Ancestral LandsAugust 12, 2021 | See page 10 for Ancestral Lands feature in The Daily, a publication by Outdoor Retailer!
Source: The Daily
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Saguaro census shows more giants, low reproduction in namesake park
Arizona Conservation CorpsAugust 3rd, 2021 | Participants ranged from environmentalists to electric utility employees, high school students to hiking groups for retirees and snowbirds. Luckily, Swann said, most of the counting was finished by last March, when the pandemic shut down such group activities.
The few remaining plots were surveyed later in the spring by park interns and crews from groups like the Arizona Conservation Corps.
Source: https://tucson.com/news/local/saguaro-census-shows-more-giants-low-reproduction-in-namesake-park/article_c659cb2d-ddef-5371-b5a3-abe351f886ad.html
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Zuni crew and volunteers collaborate on erosion control project at Chavez Pass
Ancestral LandsAugust 1st, 2021 | "As the sun inched higher, so did the temperatures, but record heat did not slow down a dedicated group of Zuni Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps members working alongside volunteer archaeologists at Chavez Pass, located approximately 15 miles south of Meteor Crater. The group was beginning the first phase of a long-term initiative addressing erosion issues while also documenting archaeological sites in the area."
Source: Arizona Daily Sun
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Civilian Conservation Corps shaped Colorado. Joe Neguse and Joe Biden think it’s time for a reboot.
Conservation LegacyJune 1st, 2021 |“It worked before and it can work again,” the Democrat from Lafayette said of the New Deal-era program, which he and President Joe Biden would like to revive — albeit on a smaller scale and focused on combating climate change. Neguse’s plan is to empower nonprofits and government agencies to build trails and fences, fight forest fires, remove invasive species and do an array of other work, primarily on public lands. In return, the organizations would receive federal money.
Source: The Denver Post
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Conservation Corps NC plugs first living shoreline project
Conservation Corps North CarolinaJune 1st, 2021 | The six-person AmeriCorps crew, volunteers and federation staff planted the salt marsh grass, completing a restoration project put in place to reduce shoreline erosion, protect the area’s maritime forest from storms, provide fish habitat and help improve coastal water quality, according to the federation. The AmeriCorps crew also collected marine debris and did maintenance work at Cape Lookout National Seashore, Carolina Beach State Park, Morris Landing in Holly Ridge and other spots on the central and southern North Carolina coast.
Source: Coastal Review
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In service to the public and the environment: the Appalachian Conservation Corps
Appalachian Conservation CorpsMay 13th, 2021 | [Podcast]: Listen to Zach Foster, Director of the of the Appalachian Conservation Corps talk about the role of reforesting Eastern Kentucky.
Source: 88.9 WEKU
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NC Coastal Federation, partners work on living shoreline at Pine Knoll Shores Town Hall
Conservation Corps North CarolinaMay 11th, 2021 | The coastal federation has been promoting living shorelines in recent years as an environmentally friendly alternative to bulkheads. For the Pine Knoll Shores project, the federation hired Restoration Systems LLC of Raleigh to build an oyster sill for the effort. Dr. Weaver said as of Friday, they’ve built 15 feet of the 50-foot sill. “We have this new material, Biomason, we’re trying out with the sill,” Dr. Weaver said. She went on to explain Biomason is a product made of biological concrete mixed with oyster shells, giving it a “low-carbon footprint.”
Source: Carteret County News-Times
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