We provide hands-on
environmental stewardship and service-learning opportunities to youth and young adults.
1,400 acres of native prairie
are restored annually by our corpsmembers.
412 young people
are engaged in Conservation Corps work in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and surrounding states.
We respond to emergencies
more than 2,000 hours a year, putting out wildfires, holding back floodwaters and cleaning up after natural disasters.
Our roots trace
to the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps that provided young men jobs to support their families during the Great Depression.
1,713 volunteers
were engaged by our corpsmembers in 2010.
Summer Youth Corps leaders rendezvous and volunteer with Will Steger
2011 program accomplishments
Thanks for helping 'carry on the corps'
Corps members fight winter fire in northern Minnesota


On December 26, the Boxing Day Fire burned 750 acres of woods near the northwestern Minnesota city of Gully and the Hangaard State Wildlife Management Area, in Polk County. A Conservation Corps crew from Rochester arrived two days later, just as temperatures dropped and it began to snow. 

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