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Youth Conservation Corps

The Youth Conservation Corps, which will enter its 15th year of operation in 2008, will have served over 430 girls and boys ranging in age from 15-17. The three youth teams work along the Neponset River Greenway, the East Boston Greenway and in Boston’s Urban Wilds. The teens learn team work and job skills while engaged in environmental improvement projects involving environmental restoration, trail building, landscaping and horticulture.

The youth have been instrumental in building support for both the Greenways and the Wilds and draw neighbors and community members attention to these spaces. Below are some of the YCC activities.

YCC Activities

The Youth Conservation Corps work and education programs focus on restoring habitat and creating access. The Corps:

  • Create and maintain trails
  • Assess past re-vegetation projects and plan new restoration projects, which attract birds, butterflies and other insects.
  • Assist BNAN's City Natives horticulturist to propagate and care for native plants at the City Natives nursery. Learn about bee keeping.
  • Create a new mural along the Neponset River Greenway and the East Boston Greenway
  • Explore the salt marsh and estuary by digging in the mud, dip netting for creatures, looking for signs of wildlife and learning the plants of the marsh.
  • Canoe the Neponset River and estuary and the Belle Isle Marsh
  • Test water quality
  • Learn about current local and global environmental concerns and efforts.

Teens--Work for the Youth Conservation Corps this Summer!

To apply you must be between 15 and 17 and a resident of Boston or Milton. Boston residents must be registered with the Hopeline, see below.

Important Information and Forms:

We are also looking for committed adults to work for YCC! Click here to go to our Job Opportunites page.

For more information contact Candice Cook, Program Manager. Email candice@bostonnatural.org or call 617-542-7696 x16.