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NorthWoods Conservation Corps
Strengthening Youth, Connecting Communities—Since 1995

The NorthWoods Conservation Corps is a summer conservation-service learning program that provides summer employment for young people ages 14–20.

Crew members are hired from communities surrounding project areas and are provided with high-quality conservation training and environmental education.

The Conservation Corps fields crews annually in three New England states and provides more than 10,000 hours of environmental education and conservation training every year.

NorthWoods Conservation Corps' 2010 Backcountry Crew

Crew Types
Four crew types compose the NorthWoods Conservation Corps, including a professional off-season field crew available for hire in spring and fall.

Kingdom Corps Day Crews (ages 14-18)
Two community day crews operate primarily in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont (Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties). Community Day Crews work five days a week, eight hours a day on priority conservation- and community-service projects.

NorthWoods Crew
The NorthWoods crew is based in East Charleston at the NorthWoods Stewardship Center and carries out projects in the northern portion of the Northeast Kingdom.

8 crew members, 2 crew leaders

Lyndonville Crew
The Lyndonville crew completes projects in the southern portion of the Kingdom and meets daily at Lyndon Institute.

8 crew members, 2 crew leaders

Kingdom Corps Backcountry Crew (ages 16 – 20)
The Backcountry crew works five days a week from a remote spike camp set up near project sites located throughout northern Vermont and New Hampshire. Crew members learn advanced trail-building and -maintenance skills as well as gaining valuable wilderness experience.

8 crew members, 2 crew leaders

US Fish and Wildlife Service Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) Crews (ages 15-18)
Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) crews are operated in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). Crew members are hired from communities surrounding five refuge locations:

Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge (Errol, ME)
Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge:

Brunswick, VT

Whitefield, NH

Colebrook, NH

Hadley, MA

YCC crews work under the supervision of NorthWoods directors and USFWS personnel, providing an excellent opportunity for youth to explore career paths in various fields of conservation and science.

Spring & Fall Conservation Crews
NorthWoods spring and fall crews complete priority projects throughout our operating area and will camp or travel to contract-service sites. Contact us to learn more.

For more information and to download a printer-friendly application form,click here.

Past Projects

Please click on the following links to download details about some of the Corps 2011 trail projects:

Cow Mountain Pond Forest
Westmore Town Forest
Mount Hor - Herbert Hawkes Trail
Gore Mountain Trail
Middle Mountain Trail

To learn more about NorthWoods trail projects and sign up for our weekly Trail Report, email us and put 'trail report' in the subject line.