Youth participants report that their Northwest Youth Corps experience significantly increased their ability to:
- Understand environmental issues 97%
- Work independently 97%
- Work hard 97%
- Find a job 87%
- Cooperate in a team effort 96%
- Work safely 96%
- Be dependable 98%
- Work with others 96%
- Set and work towards goals 93%
- Be a leader in a group 85%
- Appreciate diversity 93%
- Take responsibility for their actions 96%
- Learn from mistakes 95%
- Feel self-confident 92%
Here are a few of the recent accomplishments of Northwest Youth Corps crews.
- Constructed 32.9 miles of new trail
- Maintained 240 miles of trail
- Built 1,331 feet of puncheon
- Constructed 2,143 trail drainage structures
- Erected 3,317 feet of retaining walls
- Constructed 371 feet of trail bridges
- Put up 23,098 feet of fencing
- Removed 15,682 feet of unusable fencing
- Pruned 162 acres of trees
- Removed 1,535 acres of noxious weeds
- Planted 4,020 native species
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