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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MHYC Receives Award in DC

As you may have learned last week from Nancy Wilson’s blog post on the Post to Parks Project, MHYC was recognized recently for one of our summer land projects. The Corps Network invited MHYC CEO Kelly Causey to Washington, D.C. to receive the award. We asked Kelly to tell us about the experience. “Accepting a [...]

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In the Summer Sunshine

The weather in Denver is becoming more and more unpredictable. With September ending and October gaining speed, I expect to see leaves changing, feel cool breezes coming through and sense a crispness in the air. These are the things I have come to expect from my fall growing up on the East Coast, but I [...]

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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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Third Times The Charm

If I had been asked in the first half of my very first summer here if I would ever think of coming back to work at MHYC again, I’m not entirely sure what my answer would have been. As a friend and fellow ’09 CM, Chris, once said, “This is the hardest job I ever [...]

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Moving Up the MHYC Ladder

Summer is a little over half way through and our crews have gotten into a comfortable groove on the project sites. A lot of this is due to their crew leaders who have done this work before at MHYC. Andrew Kennedy, Brendan Michaud and Signe Hawley were Corpsmembers last year and came back to be [...]

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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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SIX SUMMER OF SERVICE APPLICATION SUGGESTIONS

For this blog segment, we thought it would be helpful to give some application tips to those applying to our summer land conservation positions. Following is a list of six reminders when filling out an application at Mile High Youth Corps which should help to avoid confusion and to best reflect upon your qualifications. 1.If [...]

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