Veterans participate in wilderness restoration project (Desert Sun)
Desert SunMay 14th, 2016 8:02 am
Thanks to a partnership forged four years ago between the California Conservation Corps and the U.S. Forest Service – establishing a work-training program for post-9/11 military veterans – public lands are being restored and vets are gaining valuable experience and developing skills that are helping them gain jobs as they transition back into the civilian workforce. One of the most recent examples of this partnership-in-action took place a couple of weekends ago in the Rodman Mountains Wilderness southeast of Barstow. On a wet and chilly April afternoon, volunteers and staff from the Joshua Tree-based Mojave Desert Land Trust and volunteers from Victor Valley College Veterans Resource Center worked side-by-side with a dozen members of an all-veteran California Conservation Corps crew to install new signs and kiosks and plant native plant species, among other projects...