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Green Visions: wanted: 500 young people to work in nature and get paid for it

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published December 18, 2019 at 11:40 AM CST
Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa

Back in the '30s, during the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps provided natural-resource jobs to out-of-work young men so they could support their families.

The federal government expanded on that program in the '70s with the summer Youth Conservation Corps and the year-round Young Adult Conservation Corps.  And when federal support for the program ended in 1981, Minnesota took up the banner and created the Minnesota Conservation Corps, a program that's looking, now, for a few good young men and women.

A few?

Try about 500.

Information about the opportunities for young people 18-25 is available here.

Information about the youth programs for folks aged 15-18 is available here.
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Environment & Outdoors EnvironmentGreen VisionsHabitatAmeriCorpsConservation CorpsOutdoor
Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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