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Show Ouray Refuge YCC camp completes work The Youth Conservation Corp. (YCC) completed Friday its six-week program of service to the environment and to the youth in the Uintah Basin. Twelve youths from the Roosevelt area and seven from Vernal worked 30 hours a week at minimum wage making a Gabion Dam at Brown's Park, cleaning 15 truck loads of trash from Pelican Lake, and digging an electric cable trench at the Jones Hole Fish Hatchery. "We performed tasks that would cost many thousands of dollars if a contractor con-tractor was hired to do the same work," said Louis Krupnick, director of the program. "It was hard work." he continued, "but we had a good time." Krupnick explained that a Gabion Dam is one made of rocks and wire baskets to form ponds for ducks and fish. During the two weeks the YCC spent at Brown's Park and Jones Hole they lived in tents and everyone shared in the cooking and other camp duties, Krupnick said. A car pool transported the kids to their projects at the Ouray Bird Refuge. Krupnick explained that for many of the kids it was their first exposure to the job market. Any youth age 15 to 18 may participate in the YCC, but they can only do it for one year, he added. Besides the 30 hours a week spent on special projects, students are involved" ten hours a week in an environmental education activity which is anything from an all day river trip to naked astronomy. The program starts June 25 and usually runs until August 3. Interested youths may inquire at the U.S. Wildlife Service. |
