WCCC News:
Upcoming Public Volunteer Opportunities Find out about volunteer opportunities through the Corps.
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Youth Corps Receives First Colorado BLM Stimulus Funds
The Western Colorado Conservation Corps was recently awarded one of the first American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act projects from the Colorado State Office of the
Bureau of Land Management.
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WCCC meets U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Colorado’s own Ken Salazar
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar came to the Grand Junction area to dedicate the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area on August 12th.
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KKCO News Channel 11 Video about WCCC
KKCO Channel 11 covers a recent WCCC education program and conservation project.
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GJ Lions award W. Colo. Conservation Corps $20,000 toward new home
Grand Junction Free Press
August 26, 2009
Youth and young adults enrolled in the Western Colorado Conservation
Corps of Partners learn practical skills like first aid, CPR, personal
finance, and wilderness and outdoors ethics in their new classroom at
2818 1/2 North Ave.
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Learn life skills, conservation through WCCC
By Rusty Lloyd
Special to the Free Press
July 20, 2009
The Western Colorado Conservation Corps is part of a
rich history of conservation-minded employment.
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Volunteers answer call to the land
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
July 12, 2009
Volunteers are being organized to build trails, remove non-native weeds and do whatever tasks on public land that managers can throw their way.
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Trail Builders: Local youth carry on Conservation Corps tradition
Grand Junction Free Press
October 10, 2008
When the roofing company Brett Burdette worked for last winter went out
of business, the 21-year-old applied to Western Colorado Conservation
Corps for a job that included cutting down tamarisk trees and building
and maintaining trails.» Read more...
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Youth Conservation Corps Builds Signs for all of Colorado
Staythetrail.org
June 23, 2008
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Taming the tamarisk terror
The Vail Daily
November 14, 2005
AVON — Men and women will brave the wet, cold weather in attempt to remove a noxious weed from our valley starting this week and continuing for about a month. They’re going after tamarisk trees, a native of Asia that is now wreaking havoc on our American ecosystem.
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