With a $5 million investment from the state, the PA Outdoor Corps will expand to provide more young people with hands-on job training and conservation experiences in partnership with PA DCNR. The funding will also allow for the hiring of additional staff, expand recruitment and strengthen community partnerships.
SCA Alum Indy Burke, the first female dean of the Yale School of the Environment, spoke with the Yale Daily News about her unwavering commitment to leading the school toward ambitious sustainability goals and educating the next generation of environmental leaders.
This year, the U.S. Army’s Fort Leavenworth Environmental Management Program expanded its engagement with SCA by bringing on five interns to support their conservation work at the Fort.
The SCA’s Adirondacks Corps Winter Team spent their service brushing trails, repairing bridges and doing chainsaw work around Little Tupper Lake in upstate New York.
Volunteers from the SCA’s Resilience Authority Youth Corps participated in a tree-planting event at Thomas Stone High School, identified as an “Urban Heat Island” by the Resilience Authority of Charles County, Maryland.
An SCA Natural Resource Steward intern participated in educating the public and improving primitive campsites around Lows Lake this summer in Adirondack Park, New York State.