Idaho Corps

Launch Your Conservation Career With Us

Through a partnership with AmeriCorps, the Idaho Corps provides youth and young adults with paid opportunities to gain competitive job readiness skills to prepare them for careers in environmental conservation.

Program participants stationed at the Salmon-Challis AmeriCorps Forest Training Center will have the opportunity to further their passion for the environment and love of the outdoors through hands-on conservation service work. Participants will focus on environmental conservation, natural resource protection, community stewardship and workforce development on public lands throughout Idaho.

Crew members will gain outdoor leadership experience and multidisciplinary training in a variety of land management facets, including front-country and backcountry trail maintenance, historic preservation, fuels reduction, invasive species management, habitat assessments and much more.

Throughout the program, participants are encouraged to make meaningful connections with the community, peers and agency partners and are given many opportunities for career and professional development. Additionally, crew members will often work independently or directly with agency partners and are given several leadership development opportunities throughout the season.

Why Join The Idaho Corps?

Program participants emerge with increased environmental awareness, technical skills, social responsibility and leadership skills.

Get Paid: Earn while learning valuable green job skills.

Gain Experience: Explore career pathways in conservation.

Make a Difference: Help care for Idaho’s expansive public lands.

Skills & Training

Professional Development

the Idaho Corps provides youth and young adults with paid opportunities to gain competitive job readiness skills to prepare them for careers in environmental conservation.