by Chris Van Horne | Mar 14, 2025 | Emergency Response, News
‘Race Against Time’: Corpsmembers Rush to Protect Against Med Fly Corpsmembers from the CCC Tahoe Center work together to gather fruit off trees in a quarantine zone in Northern California. An old nemesis of California agriculture arrived in the South Bay late last...
by Chris Van Horne | Mar 7, 2025 | Habitat Restoration, News
Protecting Wildlife by Reducing Debris Flows in Park Fire Burn Scar Chico Corpsmembers pass each other rocks as they move the naturally present material into place to create catch basins to filter water and mud flows from directly entering Big Chico Creek. In the wake...
by Chris Van Horne | Feb 26, 2025 | Culinary, News
Usually to see CCC Culinary Corpsmembers in action, you need to join a CCC residential center. For one day, and one day only, leaders at the California Natural Resources Agency got to see, and taste, the skills the CCC instills in their own place of work. Corpsmember...
by Beth Hotchkiss | Feb 26, 2025 | Emergency Response, News
In the wake of the Palisades and Eaton wildfires, 26 crews from the California Conservation Corps — plus six more from certified local corps across the state — came together to help the Los Angeles community. Based out of Zuma Beach and the Santa Anita Racetrack...
by Chris Van Horne | Feb 3, 2025 | Emergency Response, News
The damage caused by the Palisades Fire along Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu is significant. With the waters of the Pacific Ocean lapping at fire damaged structures, Corpsmembers joined our Cal OES and DWR counterparts to prevent toxins from causing harm to the ocean...
by Chris Van Horne | Jan 27, 2025 | News, Wildland Firefighting
Tahoe Fire Crews Build Line, Protect Homes on Eaton Fire As the Eaton Fire approached homes and critical infrastructure in its first few days, CCC Tahoe fire crews were there putting in hand line. Over the course of the fire’s first week, Tahoe 1 and 2 worked 24-hour...