January 2016
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps, along with its many supporting partners,
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celebrated the inaugural crews of the Middle Rio Grande Urban Conservation Corps Program.
This new urban youth employment program moves beyond traditional boundaries of summer youth employment.
The Middle Rio Grande Urban Conservation Corps Program provides local youth with meaningful employment through conservation stewardship work but also focuses on the development of individual participants by providing mentoring, cultural awareness, essential job skills, college prep, environmental education, and outdoor recreation skills.
The Graduation Ceremony highlighted the many conservation projects the crews accomplished this past summer and fall as well as each member’s completion of the Program.
