Archive
Elwood Grant goes to Conservation
Corps Youth-A recent $6,808 grant from the Gordon Elwood
Foundation will provide scholarships to help more than 20 Southern
Oregon disadvantaged teens join Northwest Youth Corps Conservation
Corps program. Read
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December 29, 2009
Youth Spruce Up at Dam-The
teens took on the dam-one of an extensive system of dams on the Columbia and Snake
rivers-as part of their five-week fall Conservation Corps program. Read
more
October 1, 2009
Youth Corps members fix up trail-Visitors
and hikers should feel safer and have a more pleasant time along the Monumental
Creek Trail thanks to a group from Northweset Youth Corps. Read
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Sept 28, 2009
Youth Give Mount Rainier Trails New
Life-Part of this Trail is being reconstructed, thanks to
Northwest Youth Corps crews eager to take on the challenge. Read
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Sept 2, 2009
Adventurous Teens Wanted for Youth
Corps Projects-About 20 of the teens are currently wrapping
up work in Mount Rainier National Park after a summer of making repairs to the
3.7 mile Glacier Basin Trail. Read
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Aug 31, 2010
Youth’s Work Earns Education
Funds-Garrett Nadeau of Sedro-Woolley was one of 10 Northwest
Youth Corps participants, ages 16-19, who recently spent two weeks making trail
improvements on the Alpine Lake Trails in the Mt.
Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Read
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August 31, 2009
Youth Give Mt.Rainier Trails New LifeRead
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Aug 27, 2009
NW Youth Corps members work in woods,
earning and learning-A Forest Service goal is to get more
youth in to the woods, and the agency chose Northwest Youth Corps to work on
the trail project. Read
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August 26, 2009
Teens creating wetland through Oregon
Youth Employment Initiative-on the edge of a landfill a few miles
southeast of Eugene, ten Lane County teens, aged 16-19, are helping convert a
former rye-growing field into the Quamash Prairie Wetlands. Read
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Aug 21, 2009
Northwest Youth Corps Crews give Mt.
Adams Trails a facelift- The U.S Forest Service
chose Northwest Youth Corps to work on the trail project because a primary goal
of the Forest Service is to get more youth in the woods to experience public
lands. Read
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Aug 21, 2009
Youth Go to Work in Forests-Corps
program lets them return home at the end of the shift. Read
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August 20, 2009
Portland Oregon's Hiking Network-Thanks Northwest
Youth Corps for your Timberline Trail Work! Read
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August 16, 2009
Job Opportunity
for Youth-The employer, Northwest Youth Corps, is no stranger
to sending kids to work in the dirt, although this is the first time
they’ve done it so close to home. Read
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Aug 10, 2009
Focus On The Community-Radio
Interview with Corps Respond. Read
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Aug 7, 2009
Northwest Youth Corps Helps Change
Students-There is an organization in the Northwest that is
helping teenagers prepare themselves for society. Read
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August 6, 2009
Teens Reintroduce Plants To the Wild-The
teens are from the Northwest Youth Corps Outdoor Program. They’ve
been working in these wetlands for five weeks now. They say that these
perches will hopefully reintroduce birds of prey into the area again. Read
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Aug 5, 2009
BLM plans for Hinsdale
property blossom-Youth have spread mulch, cut branches, and
cleared brush at the site for two years.
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August 4, 2009
Adventurous Teens Wanted for Youth
Corps-Northwest Group Repairs Mount Rainier Trails in Remote
Wilderness. Read
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Nancy Nathanson Read
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August 2009
Volunteer Spotlight-Samuel
O. Landa. Read
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July 26, 2009
Jacksonville will Get New Trail-Federal stimulus money
will bring construction by a newly formed Northwest Youth Corps group of a long
planned trail in the hills south of town.. Read
more
July 21, 2009
Trail Crews contend with Damage-The
trail crews-a mix of Northwest Youth Corps, a nonprofit youth development and
outdoor education organization, and a backcountry crew from the Forest Service-are just the first of many crews that will
be working on the district throughout the summer. Read
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July 7, 2009
Rogue River Corridor Hikers, Horse
Campers to benefit from 19 miles of Trail Improvements-Northwest
Youth Corps crews plan to rid the trail of fallen wood, excess vegetation that
hampers the way of hikers and horsemen, and also improve trail structures and
surfaces. Read
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July 2, 2009
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