The Youth in Restoration Program (YIR) was developed to expose high school students to the processes involved in land management. YIR provides youth career mentorship and on the ground experience in natural resource/conservation work while building and strengthening partnerships within a diverse mix of stewardship and management organizations.
Apply by Friday, May 20th, 2022
Interviews May 24th and 25th, 2022
Employment typically runs from the third week of June through the third week of August
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The extensive partnerships involved in making this program successful enable the YIR to work with a variety of experts within different levels of land management. The youth crew is involved with; land management professionals from state and federal agencies, conservation managers from the City and the University, botanist and range technicians from DNRC and Forest Service, local ranchers and land stewards from non-profit partners. The partnerships between state, federal and private agencies will ensure a variety of land-use/conservation/restoration work experience for the youth crew and the collaboration is beneficial for all.
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