Gear Drive!

The 2012 Summer of Service kicks off on May 29 for Mile High Youth Corps – Colorado Springs (MHYC-CS). This field office will be sending four crews out to their job sites to begin their land conservation work. Three of the crews, the Marmots, the Bobcats, and the Hayman, are all camping crews: they will [...]

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Summer Crews Announced!

Summer is just around the corner and our new crews are amped and ready to go! We’ve got a little info on what you can expect from our crews during their Summer of Service! This season, we are going to have four amazing crews out of our Denver office: The Trail Blazers are a sawyer crew that [...]

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Looking for a Paid, Unique Leadership Experience? Become an ACLC!

Mile High Youth Corps is full of diverse job opportunities in order for it to run smoothly as a growing nonprofit. MHYC requires folks who can work in management, finance, program development, employee recruitment, marketing, direct conservation service and more. One program exists to blend the direct service with the operations of a nonprofit: the [...]

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Apply Now for Summer Land Conservation Jobs!!!

It’s that time of year again!  Mile High Youth Corps has kicked off hiring for our Summer Land Conservation programs.  From May through August of 2012, you could spend your days working throughout the Front Range on projects that directly benefit the environment and the local communities where we work.  Both Denver and Colorado Springs [...]

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Top 5: Summer of Service

Despite what that pesky groundhog says, spring is right around the corner. Then before you know it, it’s summer! To celebrate the warm weather and farmer’s tans heading our way, we’d like to take a look back at our Top 5 Summer of Service posts. Take a look and let us know what was your [...]

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Post to Parks Project Receives National Recognition

by Nancy Wilson, Regional Director: Southern Front Range Have you ever hear the expression “each one, teach one”? It refers to the fact that when we learn something new, from a book or a class, we might learn it. But, when we have to teach our new knowledge or skill to another person, that’s when [...]

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RidgeRunners: A collection of thoughts and photos

The summer is over and the RidgeRunners have finished up their last project. Their projects this summer have varied greatly and so have the project locations. They planted trees in Brighton, mitigated weeds and removed invasive Russian Olives in the Rocky Mountain Arsenal and Two Ponds National Wildlife Refuge, and honed their trail and fence [...]

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The Mind Of A Pathfinder

Have you ever heard the saying, “you don’t know a person or what they go through until you step into their shoes?” Of course you have. So how do you do this for a team? Let me tell you. First, you will need boots (steel toe), a hard hat, and working gloves. Now, pick up [...]

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Summer of Service Has Begun!

This month marked the beginning of project work for our Summer of Service crews. To help give you a better perspective of what the Summer of Service entails, I have combined a few numbers to make it clearer. 12 weeks of service 13 crews 106 youth employed as Corpsmembers 34 youth are chain-saw certified 25 [...]

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HEAL THE EARTH…HEAL YOURSELF

Critical Point, Tread, Inside Edge and Back slope. Don’t forget to cut your slough and Berm! Crew Leaders learned about these terms and how to create the perfect trail at the Colorado Youth Corps Association’s training May 24-26. Volunteers from OSI (Outdoor Stewardship Institute) and VOC (Volunteers Outdoor Colorado) came to beautiful Golden, CO to [...]

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