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Show Youth Conservation Corps on campus at SUSC The 1975 United States Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program which provides meaningful summer employment em-ployment for boys and girls 15 through 18 years of age will again be hosted by Southern Utah State College. 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, forests, national resource lands, and other public land and water areas of our nation. The YCC program is designed to fill the following basic needs: (1) accomplish needed- conservation con-servation work on public lands; education in order to provide a well balanced earn-work-learn experience for the enrollees. In order to eliminate the formality of structured classroom instruction, in-struction, environmental education will be conducted in the field at work locations in small informal group discussions. :A variety of off-duty activities are planned which will include sports activities, lectures and film presentations, short field trips to local points of interest and hiking in beautiful "color country". The Cedar City YCC Camp is one of 181 such camps employing approximately 4500 youth throughout the nation. The youth will arrive on the SUSC campus on Sunday, June 15, and will be employed for approximately eight weeks. (2) provide gainful employment for 15 through 18 year old males and females from all social, economic, ethnic and racial classifications; and (3) develop an understanding and appreciation ap-preciation in participating youth of the nation's natural environment en-vironment and heritage. The Cedar City YCC Camp of 10 boys and 10 girls from the southern Utah area is sponsored by the Bureau of Land Management and hosted by Southern Utah State Colelge. The group will be housed and fed on campus and will work on public lands administered by the BLM. A variety of work porjects are provided by BLM which will include tree planting, wildlife habitat improvement, streambank and fish habitat improvement, fencing and water development. The projects are an important part of the BLM program and all are identified in the district's annual work plan. The environmental education aspect of the program is complementary com-plementary to the type of work that is being done. At least two hours time each day will be devoted to environmental |
