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Show Conservation Corps workshop to open on SUSC campus On Sunday afternoon, June 16, 20 young men and women will arrive at Southern Utah State College campus to begin a 56 day work education experience. They have escaped the frustrations of summer unemployment by joining the United States Youth Conservation Corps. The Youth Conservation Corps, administered by the U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Department of Agriculture', and State Governments, was established by the President and the Congress to offer youth gainful summer employment in the healthful outdoor atmosphere of the national parks, national forests, national resource lands, and other public land and water areas of our nation. The 20 young men and women, 15 through 18 years of age, have availed themselves of the opportunity op-portunity and accepted the challenge of taking an active part in improving the quality of the natural environment. The YCC is a well balanced earn-work-learn experience, and the youth will not only learn how to improve the environment, but why their work contribution is important. The Cedar City YCC camp is sponsored by the U. S. Department Depart-ment of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management and hosted by Southern Utah State College. The group will be housed and fed on campus and will be working on public lands adminstered by the BLM. The BLM will provide a variety of work projects such as tree planting, spring development, develop-ment, wildlife habitat improvement, im-provement, and stream and fish habitat improvement. The youth will also assist in a sage grouse nest census and desert tortoise census. These projects are all important aspects of the BLM program and will help the BLM in accomplishing its goals. The environmental education aspect of the program is centered around the type of work being done and will be accomplished in small group discussions in the field. This eliminates the formality for-mality of classroom instruction. A variety of off duty activities are planned which include discussions and slide presentations presen-tations by persons who are engaged in environmental and wildlife projects, sports activities, ac-tivities, short field trips to local points of interest, and just plain free time to lie on the grass and look up at the beautiful southern Utah cloud formations. |