Desert Restoration

This corps consists of seven separate teams based near several field offices of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California Desert District in southern California. Each team has a Project Leader plus six-eight members and serves for a total of eight months. Service is primarily focused on the restoration of damage caused by off-highway vehicles (OHV) in limited use and closed areas under management by the BLM. The emphasis is to protect the habitat of several endangered species, including the desert tortoise, as well as to ensure the viability of the OHV trail system. The teams camp at the project sites for up to nine days at a time and use a variety of techniques, including vertical mulching and re-texturing the ground surface to restore the habitat. They also rehabilitate degraded trails to prevent erosion and spend substantial time in education and community outreach efforts with user and school groups.

Pacific Crest Trail Project

Several teams each year partake in this project in partnership with the US Forest Service. Each team consists of a Project Leader plus six-eight members who travel to various points along this National Scenic Trail in the states of California, Oregon, and Washington. Teams camp at a project site for up to eight days at a time completing maintenance, rehabilitation and trail structure projects in an effort to bring the trail up to standard and maintain its condition.

North Coast Wilderness Project

This is a team of six members plus a Project Leader that will be working in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management in several wilderness areas of northern California. They will be providing habitat and trail restoration at several sites over a period of six months. They will also perform data collection and monitoring for the wilderness areas.