by mark | Jan 18, 2023 | News
The cries of ‘bag’ and ‘got it’ are familiar to California Conservation Corps Corpsmembers past and present. Communication is an important part of how to safely and efficiently chain sandbags into place and construct sandbag structures to fight...
by mark | Jan 14, 2023 | News
In between atmospheric river events, Corpsmembers with the California Conservation Corps stepped in to begin prepping communities ahead of the next round of rain and help with recovery from the first two weeks of storms in the New Year. “Everyone here is all...
by mark | Jan 11, 2023 | News
Nearly 100 Corpsmembers have spent days walking in the rain and mud, brought on my atmospheric river storms. This is no leisurely walk in a park, however. They’re filling, lugging, and placing sandbags weighing 30 to 40 pounds across a rain-soaked levee. ...
by mark | Jan 6, 2023 | News
As flood waters washed across much of California, the young adults of the California Conservation Corps got busy cleaning up the mud, shoring up levees, and restoring confidence for many that they are not alone in their fight to stop what nature was about to deliver....
by mark | Dec 21, 2022 | News
It’s certainly hard work, spending hot summer days carefully leveling and shaping a trail. For CCC San Diego Corpsmembers, turning a once makeshift trail into a permanent one makes it all worthwhile. Working with Forever Balboa Park and the City of San Diego,...
by mark | Dec 14, 2022 | News
Four years after the devastating Carr Fire in Redding and we’re still seeing the impacts of the inferno. Trails are being restored, homes being rebuilt, but after winter storms hit the impacts of the Carr Fire are felt in one of Redding’s most used and...
