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Hunterdon County teens spend the summer building trailsMyCentralJerseyBy Walter O’BrienThe New Jersey Green Team of the Student Conservation Association, a national organization whose mission is to build the next generation of conservation leaders, showed off its summer’s work to the Hunterdon County Board of Freeholders at Tuesday’s meeting.John Trontis, director...Read more |
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SCA Intern "is like the dictionary for Mount Rainier"The Olympian“I’m looking forward to pretty much everything,” said Emily DeBoers, aiming her camera at the rest of the group.A highlight of the weekend proved to be Aguilar, a Student Conservation Association intern.Aguilar, who studies environmental sciences at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., began...Read more |
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Stimulus funds SCA trail crew in VirginiaThe News LeaderBy Rebecca MartinezWEST AUGUSTA - Forest Ranger Elwood Burge thinks you have a gem in your backyard and you don’t even know it.Enormous trees created a lush and quiet canopy over his hike on the Ramsey’s Draft Wilderness trail near West Augusta on Tuesday. Read more |
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New log bridge open across Thunder Creek in North Cascades National ParkThe OregonianA temporary log crossing is in place over Thunder Creek, making the Thunder Creek Trail passable again to foot traffic, in Washington’s rugged North Cascades National Park.The trail was closed about 14 miles from the trailhead, just before the Skagit Queen Camp, due to the failure of the Skagit...Read more |
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Students cap summer of planting trees, clearing trailsStamford AdvocateBy Frank MacEachernClearing brush and working outside in the summer heat can be challenging, said a Greenwich student who spent the last six weeks working in the town’s parks.”It was tough,” said Nick Ambrogio, 16. Read more |
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Rugged work with SCA trail crew rewardingBangor Daily NewsBy Brad Viles, Special to the NEWSThey’ve been sighted by hikers on Bigelow this summer. You might have seen them if you took a family hike to Gulf Hagas. They were there, too. If you backpacked on the Appalachian Trail in the “100-mile wilderness” from Monson to Abol Bridge, you would have seen...Read more |
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Memorial Held for SCA Alumna Slain in AfghanistanSCACheryl Beckett, an SCA alumna and one of 10 humanitarian aid workers killed by gunmen in Afghanistan this month, was remembered today at a memorial service at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, VT. Ms. Beckett had served there as an SCA intern in 2000.Friends,...Read more |
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SCA helps rebuild Yukon gold rush trailsThe Doings Western SpringsBy JANE MICHAELSSome might consider a month of shoveling gravel eight hours a day a sentence of hard labor, but a Lyons Township High School senior found it an adventure in the wilds of Alaska.”It felt like a different world out there,” Andrew Stables of Western Springs recalled about his month-...Read more |
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A Conservation Visionary At Last Honored By Obama TodayChange.orgby Jess Leber August 04, 2010 09:19 AM (PT) Topics: Environmental Activism, Forests, WildlifeThe year was 1955, long before national service had a model in the Peace Corps, and more than a decade before Earth Day even existed.Liz, then a senior at Vassar College, read a magazine article...Read more |
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Doing the dirty workThe Adirondack Daily EnterpriseSCA work crews give back by improving backcountry trails and campsitesBy MIKE LYNCH, Enterprise Outdoors WriterAs the four Student Conservation Association workers sat around a campfire on a St. Regis Pond island, storm clouds moved across the sky. Read more |
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