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This year marks the 50th anni-versary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s call upon Americans to build a “Great Society” and his sponsorship of the largest social and economic reform agenda since President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.”

In response to Johnson’s chal-lenge, on August 20, 1964, Congress passed “The Econom-ic Opportunity Act,” which creat-ed the flagship Job Corps pro-gram. The Economic Opportuni-ty Act was meant to enable the poor to pull themselves up from the grasp of poverty. Most sec-

tions of the Act have been re-scinded; however, Job Corps proved so valuable that it con-tinues today.

Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers (JCCCCs) help ensure that none are left behind and (Continued on page 2)

Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers . . . No Longer America’s Best Kept Secret Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

January/February 2014

Volume 1, Issue 1

Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Courier

In FY12 JCCCCs contributed 299,797 hours on projects ranging from ecosys-

tem management, facilities, forest management, research, and wildlife, fish and threatened and endangered

species programs of work that allowed the Forest Service to meet its youth

program goals. These volunteer hours translate into work on the ground with

an appraised value of $6,532,576.

Forest Service Chief Edward P. Cliff hosts Schenck Corpsmen and staff on December 30, 1965. Photo courtesy of the Vern Hamre Photograph Collection

From the Desk of the National Office Tina J. Terrell, Acting National Director

This year, 2014, marks a his-toric occasion. Job Corps was established over 50 years ago when the Economic Opportuni-ty Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The Forest Service was in a unique position in 1964 as the agency worked with the Depart-ment of Labor to establish Job Corps Centers in national for-ests. Back then, over 47 differ-ent Job Corps Centers were

established in 31 states. Other agencies such as the Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Af-fairs, Bureau of Land Manage-ment, or Fish and Wildlife Ser-vice also established centers; but the largest number of cen-ters was established on Forest Service land.

Today, the Forest Service is the only Federal agency managing

28 Job Corps Civilian Conser-vation Centers in 18 states. The vision of Sargent Shiver (founder of Job Corps) and Forest Service leaders at that time has put the agency on a path to connect young people to conservation and the mis-sion of the agency which is to care for the land and serve people.

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Inside this issue:

Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers. . .No Longer America’s Best Kept Secret

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From the Desk of the National Office

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Ouachita JCCCCC 3

Wilderness Act’s 50th Anniversary 4

Job Corps Fire Program 5

2013 USDA Honor Awards 5

Curlew JCCCC 6

Young Job Corps Graduates 7

Pay It Forward 8

Columbia Basin JCCCC 9

Write for the Courier 9

JCCCC - Huron-Manistee NF Partnership

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The Safety Journey - Great Onyx JCCCC

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The Safety Journey – Hidden Dangers

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Job Corps Employee Profile 13

Job Corps Associated National Forests and Grasslands

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First Forest Service JCCCCs and Critical Staff

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JCCCC Map and Job Corps National Office Contact Address

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provide a solid foundation for

economically disadvantaged young people to reach their potential and succeed both in their communities and careers.

What is not as widely known is that the U.S. Forest Service had a central role in designing Job Corps. In Job Corps, Forest Ser-vice leaders, men like then For-est Service Chief Edward P. Cliff, Deputy Chief Clare Hen-dee, District Ranger and Forest Supervisor Jack Deinema, fu-ture Forest Service Chief Max Peterson, and Ed Shultz and Clayton Weaver in the Division for Administrative Management, saw an opportunity and seized it.

Dating back to the depression era Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) of the 1930s, which pro-vided room, board and employ-ment to millions of unemployed young people, the Forest Ser-vice has a history of involve-

ment in employment programs with a rich legacy of land stew-ardship that serve people and natural resources alike.

These Forest Service leaders exhibited strong support, un-derstanding, and commitment to the Job Corps program. For these men, Job Corps was a new opportunity to conserve and develop human resources as well as the nation’s abun-dant natural resources. Forest Service Job Corps is a rare alignment of real life solutions to the challenges of youth un-employment and the urgent need to protect our nation’s natural resources.

Today, Job Corps Civilian Con-servation Centers continue to shape the values and attitudes of America’s youth toward na-ture and their role in protecting our natural resources for future generations. They are building a cadre of young people whose education and skills are being used in conservation projects that are restoring our natural resources and revitalizing rural economic development, while lifting our youth out of poverty. The work that occurs each and every day by Job Corps stu-dents and staff showcases our nation’s wise and continuing investment in the conservation of America’s natural re-source…not just our land, but our young people’s lives.

Share your knowledge of the JCCCCs

with the Forest Service JCNO! Contact information on page 16.

See the list of the 28 JCCCCs and the list of original Forest Service JCCCCs

on pages 15 and 16.

. . .No Longer America’s Best Kept Secret (continued from page 1)


The United States can achieve its

full economic and social potential as a nation only if

every individual has the opportunity to contribute to the full extent of his capa-

bilities and to participate in the workings of our society. It is therefore, the policy of the United States to elimi-nate the paradox of poverty in the midst of plenty in this Nation by opening to every-

one the opportunity for education and training, the opportunity to work, and the opportunity to live in decen-

cy and dignity."

On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act while press and supporters of the bill look on. Photo courtesy of the LBJ Library

Frenchburg Job Corps partnered with HistoriCorps® and renowned Kentucky restorationist Patrick Kennedy to restore Gladie Cabin on the Daniel Boone National Forest. The Gladie Cabin dates to the late 1800s and represents the logging period of Kentucky's rich history. Photo courtesy of Charles Betram

Columbia Basin carpentry students complete repairs on the historic 1936 Ski Hill Lodge at the Leav-enworth Ski Hill on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in the Cascade Mountains of Washing-ton. Photo courtesy of Columbia Basin Job Corps

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Great Society Speech

Within the Job Corps, there is authorized a Youth Conservation Corps in which no less than 40 per centum of the male enrollees.. . ..shall be assigned to camps where their work activity is di-rected primarily toward conserving, developing, and managing public natural resources of the Nation and developing, manag-ing, and protecting public recreation areas.

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From the Desk of the National Office (continued from page 1)

Ouachita Job Corps Now the Longest Operating Civilian Conservation Center Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

The Ouachita JCCCC, activated on February 6, 1965, and one of the first three Job Corps cen-ters opened nationwide, is now the longest operating Forest Service JCCCC. On March 22, 1965, United States Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus welcomed over several hundred people to the opening ceremony. Ralph Kunz, a career National Forest Service employ-ee, was the first center director. By the end of Ouachita’s fourth year of operation, it had trained over 850 corpsmen and com-pleted over $1,000,000 on

National Forest System Lands (NFS) and on-center. Complet-ed projects in-cluded the Oden Ranger Office Building, the Jessiveville Ranger Office Building, the Mazarn Recreation Area, the Charton Campfire Theater, and the Hickory Nut Vista Road. Today, the center continues this proud tradition; in Program Year 2013, the center contributed 5,340 hours of volunteer work on NFS Lands and thousands of hours to local community pro-jects. Ouachita’s community collaborations include several

with the Hot Springs Documen-tary Film Institute’s (HSDFI) Malco Theatre Complex, recent-ly listed on the National Regis-ter of Historic Places, to com-plete numerous facility improve-ments that will allow it to ex-pand programs throughout Ar-kansas. Happy Birthday Ouachi-ta!

Arkansas Govenor Orval Faubus speaks at the official opening of Ouach-ita Jobs Corps center on March 22, 1965. Photo courtesy of Ernie Deane Photographic Collection

Over the next several months, (the Job Corps program will be working with staffs in the Na-tional Forest System and the State and Private Forestry-Fire & Aviation Staff to forward our commitment to connect young people to conservation. Al-ready, through the work of a number of people, we have seen progress in getting more Job Corps students trained to serve on fire crews, camp crews, or fuels crews.

Soon, some of our students will be working on wilderness pro-jects to develop and build ki-osks and scales in the back-country at some of the most pristine and beautiful Wilder-ness areas around the country. This project will seize on an opportunity to integrate the 50th anniversary of Job Corps

with the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Late this spring we will work with Human Re-sources to get students hired permanently through Pathways or as a member of a Public Lands Corps.

Richard Louv wrote in Last Child in the Woods – Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder, “…at the very moment that the bond is break-ing between the young and the natural world, a growing body of research links our mental, physical, and spiritual health directly to our association with nature – in positive ways.” Now is the time to get our young people out into the woods to not only connect them to nature, but to also work with them to become citizen stewards to take care of

the land that is ours to treasure.

Picture of Tina Terrell taken at the Sequoia National Forest Supervisors Office. Photo courtesy of Mary Chislock

Flatwoods Job Corps students , members of the Longsome Pine Fire Team , working on the historic Stone Mountain Area Trail within the newly designated Stone Mountain Wilderness Area on the George Washington-Jefferson National Forest. Photo courtesy of Pete Irvine

OUACHITA FAST FACTS:

Students: 197

Employees: 73

Students served each year: 314

2013 Volunteer Hours on NFS Lands: 5,340

Career Technical Trades:

Office Administration

Union Bricklaying

Union Carpentry

Union Cement Masonry

Union Painting

Union Plastering

Urban Forestry

Welding

For many JCCCC students this will be their first opportunity to visit wilderness, as joining JCCCC may have been their first exposure to National Forests. Ideally this exposure will plant a seed of interest for students in these special areas either for personal recreation or as a future career.

As for JCCCC students, they will showcase their carpentry, pro-duction and installation skills. Collbran JCCCC students will create 200 50th Anniversary awards for distribution at the October, 2014 Wilderness con-ference in Albuquerque, NM (October 15-19).

Tim Parlove, United Brother-hood of Carpenters-National Job Corps Training Fund, Inc. Trade Instructor at Collbran JCCCC, says “Any opportunity to expose our students to a production environment with deadlines is always welcomed. Students will approach this assignment by setting up teams, assessing output quality, tracking units produced per hour and per day, and adjusting production sched-ules as needed. It creates a real work environment and al-lows students to work on plan-ning skills in addition to their carpentry skills.”

JCCCC students at eight addi-tional centers will construct wilderness kiosks and back-pack scales, traveling to wilder-ness trailheads to install the kiosks and participate in Wilder-ness clean ups and other activi-ties.

Students will work alongside Forest Service Staff, wilderness partners and committed citi-zens to commemorate the Wilderness Act. Making connec-tions between JCCCC students, the National Forests and these Wilderness areas will create future stewards for these areas, allowing them to be protected and preserved for the next 50 years and beyond.


The Camino Real Ranger Station project, completed in 2011, entailed demolishing a 2,000 sq. ft. structure and constructing a 6,500 sq. ft. energy efficient structure. Over 500 Job Corps students utilized their vocational skills during the building construction. Photo courtesy of GakStonn Imagery

2014 marks the 50th Anni-versary o the Wilderness Act, signed into law Sep-

tember 3rd, 1964.

It also marks Job Corps 50th Anniversary signed into law on August 23rd, 1964. This coinci-dence provides an opportunity for JCCCC students to partner with the National Forest Ser-vice (NFS) System on several anniversary activities. JCCCC students will construct trail-head entrance kiosks and pack scales; visit Wilderness areas to install the kiosks and scales; and, assist with trail construc-tion, clean up and mainte-nance.

Ralph Swain, Region 2 Wilder-ness coordinator, says “This is a great opportunity to marry Job Corps skills with Forest Service needs while simultane-ously exposing a new genera-tion of students to Wilderness values. Wilderness can be a foreign concept for the uniniti-ated so this provides some great exposure to our JCCCC students, encouraging them to consider a career as a Wilderness manager.”

Job Corps Helps Celebrate the Wilderness Act’s 50th Anniversary Cyndi Szymanski, Natural Liaison, Job Corps National Office

“A wilderness, in con-trast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not re-main." The Wilderness Act

“This is a great opportunity to marry Job Corps skills with Forest Service needs while simultaneously exposing a new generation of students to Wilderness values. Wilderness can be a foreign concept for the uninitiated so this provides some great expo-sure to our JCCCC students, encouraging them to consider a career as a Wilderness manager.”

—Ralph Swain, R2 Wilderness Coordinator

Looking to add professional, trained, youthful, diverse staff to your project or office? A Forest Service Job Corps Mobile Corps can be a valuable addition to your next project. Mobile Corps pro-jects are larger scale, multi-student and/or multi-center pro-jects. These projects have ranged from painting/maintenance at Grey Towers Historical site, building smaller buildings and campsite projects, to the construction of ranger stations and staff housing. A formal application process must be completed for pro-ject consideration: contact Cyndi Szymanski at 303-275-5074 for additional information.


Cheri W. Jones Presented with the 2013 Secretary’s Award for Innovative Customer Service Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

Cheri W. Jones, Literacy Coordinator at Schenck Job Corps Center, was awarded the Secretary’s “Award for Innovative Customer Service – Individual Achievements” at the Sixty-Fifth Secretary’s Honor Awards Ceremony. This year, Ms. Jones was one of only twelve recipients of an Honor Award.

Cheri received the award for exhibiting excellence and leadership for designing a Job Corps Literacy Program that propelled Schenk’s literacy program to the number one ranking out of all 125 Job Corps centers nationwide from a previous ranking of 121.

Cheri’s program has been successfully implement-ed at other Job Corp centers and she has now as-sumed a leadership position managing the GED program at Schenck Job Corps.

To find out more about the Job Corps Literacy Pro-gram, contact Cheri W. Jones at 828-862-6121 or [email protected]

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden present the Secretary’s Honor Award to Cheri W. Jones at the 2013 Secretary's Honor Awards in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013. Photo courtesy of Lance Cheung

New Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center Fire Program Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

“Everyone at Schenck Job Corps is extremely proud to have an Honor Award recipient on our team. Cheri Jones is an important part of TEAM SCHENCK and is a major contributor to our success. Cheri goes above and beyond every day! She is a dedicated employee who genuinely cares about the success of our students. She has a positive attitude and bubbly personality which is contagious. We really appreciate Cheri and all that she has done for the students and the center.” —Center Director Tammy Wentland Schenck Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center

On March 15, 2013, Chief Tom Tidwell announced an innova-tive partnership between Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers and Fire and Aviation Management (F&AM). This part-nership will expand the importance of the Job Corps program in filling future fire management positions in the Forest Service.

The partnership between JCCCC and F&AM will formalize the expansion of fire programs over the next five years beginning in 2013. Centers included in the

first phase include: Boxelder, Centennial, Collbran, Curlew, Harpers Ferry, Pine Ridge, We-ber Basin, and Wolf Creek. The phased approach will allow the training and development of both students and programs at all 28 JCCCCs.

F&AM has committed to admit-ting 10% of graduating JCCCC students into the Fire Appren-ticeship Program. Successful Job Corps students may be recruited as apprentices for the Wildland Fire Apprentice Pro-gram (WFAP). WFAP will be one

of the training programs for new firefighter hires to better meet the demands for a professional, highly-skilled, and diverse wildland fire management work-force. Upon completion of pro-gram requirements, Job Corps students will have the oppor-tunity to compete for perma-nent or seasonal appointments.

For more information, contact Jane Eide, Fire Program Coordi-nator at 605-673-9304 or Raquel Stanton, Administrative Assistant, at 605-673-9358.

In 2013, 1,514 Job Corps

students were deployed to 177

fire assignments, working a total of 1,301 days and 123,009 hours.

school. A high school counselor suggested that the individual-ized attention he would receive at Job Corps would help him succeed. “When I entered Cur-lew Job Corps, I could complete fifth-grade math, but I could read only at a second-grade level,” Estes said. Tim entered Curlew’s carpentry program where he overcame many chal-lenges. “Al Eveland, my car-pentry instructor, told me that you get out of Job Corps what you put in to it,” Estes said. “When I heard that, I decided I would put all I have into getting everything I could out of Curlew.

Estes also served on Curlew’s fire crew. According to squad boss Bodie Kjolseth, “Tim was one of the hardest workers I have ever seen. I had to make him take breaks while we were working long shifts. He was always willing to volunteer for something new. Other students were afraid to use the radio and he stepped right up and not only read the weather ob-servations over our crew chan-

nel, but read it to the en-tire division on the fire. You never had to worry whether Tim was working when he was out of your

sight. If someone needed help, he would jump right in.”

“The instructors and students at Job Corps helped me learn the Job Corps motto that ‘determination turns obstacles into opportunities.’ Estes said. “I worked day and night and was transformed from an imma-ture kid to a mature adult. I was unknowledgeable when I ar-rived, but a knowledgeable person when I graduated.”

After finishing the Job Corps program in 2011, Estes trav-elled to Denver to join Ameri-Corps, where he would gain confidence, master additional work skills and earn money for college. AmeriCorps has taken Estes to Arkansas, New York, Texas, Colorado, and Missouri; however, it was an experience in March 2013, that brought the world full circle for him.

A member of the AmeriCorps Ski Team, one of Tim’s service assignments involved conduct-ing ski camps for the blind and sight impaired at Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. Melody

Kadzis, from Jacksonville, Flori-da, seemed familiar to Tim. A short conversation between the two quickly established that Tim and Melody both grew up in the Henan Luoyang Orphanage in Central China. The odds of Tim and Melody being united on the other side of the world are im-probable. Tim and Kadzis ex-changed phone numbers and plan to keep in touch.

Estes’ AmeriCorps service end-ed in July and he is beginning the next stage of his life – find-ing a full-time job, with the hope of pursuing a career with the U.S. Forest Service. Now 21, his Job Corps and AmeriCorps work as a firefighter, disaster aid worker, carpenter, conserva-tionist, and teacher for “at-risk” children have equipped him with marketable skills and expe-rience, he says. “I earned my GED in April,” says Tim. “Now I need to find a job and a place to live. I want to be a good per-son, become financially inde-pendent, and eventually have a family,” he emphasized. “I want to go to college and have a brighter future,” says Estes. No individual’s success is guaran-teed; however, it is almost cer-tain that Tim will not be linger-ing on his road ahead.

A Curlew Job Corps Graduate Demonstrates How “Determination Turns Obstacles into Opportunities” Alicia D. Bennett, Job Corps National Office


Tim Estes at the 49 Degrees North Ski Resort on the Colville National Forest in 2012. Photo courtesy of Seth Krohn

There is a Chinese proverb that captures the essence of a young man born in China in 1992, adopted by American parents in 2006 right before he turned 14 and who graduated from a Forest Service Civilian Conservation Center in 2012 at age 20: “Be not afraid of grow-ing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” Tim Estes, a graduate of Curlew Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center in Washington State, is not afraid to grow. Nor does he stand still.

Estes began life in the Henan Luoyang Orphanage in Luoyang, China, where he was born with a heart defect. “After walking just three feet, I would become so exhausted that I would have to sit down and rest,” said Es-tes. In China, once a boy or girl turns 14, he or she becomes an “aging out” child who must live independently and is no longer eligible for adoption. Tim credits his adoptive parents, Peggy and Andy Estes from Seattle, for turning his life around and giv-ing him the opportunity to be-come part of a family. “I want to make other people feel the way I felt after my parent’s adopted me,” says Tim.

In Seattle, Estes struggled to catch up to his grade level in

Tim Estes is on the Montana Mill Fire in August 2011. Photo courtesy of James Beckwith

“The instructors and students at Job Corps helped me learn the Job Corps motto that ‘determination turns obstacles into opportuni-ties.’ Nobody gave up on me.” —Tim Estes

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incredible foundation, but con-tinues to be a pillar of strength in my life to this day,” says Kay-la.

When asked about her future goals, Kayla says that in five years, she sees herself more advanced in her career.

Finally, when asked how she had changed because of her Job Corps experience, Kayla stated, “To put it simply, I grew. Job Corps provided a safe and motivating environment for me to recover from a recent person-al loss, and the structure and encouragement to move for-ward with my life in a productive way.”


Meet Kayla G. May-Marsh A young, employed, successful Job Corps graduate Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

speed and efficiency, says Kay-la. “I’ve found myself struck throughout the day by the tre-mendous appreciation for the training and instruction I re-ceived at Oconaluftee,” she adds. Kayla said her wage rate was initially disappointing; how-ever, she also knows her wages will rise. ”There are certainly opportunities to grow here, so I’m going to continue to grow my skills.”

When John Irish, Vice-President of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Legacy requested a speaker from Forest Service Job Corps for the CCC Legacy’s 80th anniversary gathering in Tuc-son, AZ, Kayla was a natural choice. “Kayla was very articu-late and she is an excellent advocate for the Civilian Con-servation Centers,” says John. Kayla’s mother, Nicki Marsh, also attended the gathering, which made the event even more special for Kayla. “My Mother not only provided me an

mother encouraged me to attend Job Corps to learn a trade and skill that I could use to be a productive citizen of this country,” says Kayla. Taking Mom’s advice, in August 2013, Kayla enrolled in the Oco-naluftee JCCCC. She quick-ly determined that she was

interested in a career as an electrician. “I wanted to learn to work with electrical energy and eventually renewable re-sources like solar, wind or ther-mal alternatives. My intention is to contribute to restructuring our electrical grid to a more environmentally conscious and sustainable design,” says Kayla.

After graduating from Job Corps, Kayla was offered a job by the Haskins Electric, LLC, located in Phoenix, AZ. She helps construct homes in a retirement community. “Haskins emphasizes quality and attention to detail, but they are even more insistent on

Kayla May Marsh at the CCC Legacy Gathering in Tucson, AZ on October 25, 2013. Photo courtesy of John Irish

Kayla G. May-Marsh is an exam-ple of why generalizations do not always apply to young peo-ple choosing to enter Job Corps. Before enrolling in Job Corps, Kayla was awarded a B.A. De-gree from the University of Ten-nessee in May of 2011. Kayla graduated with a triple major in Philosophy, Psychology, and French. Yet, even with her suc-cessful college career, the job market was tough and competi-tive and she found herself work-ing unfulfilling, minimum wage jobs.

Kayla sought the advice of her mother, who suggested Job Corps as an alternative. “My

Congratulations Chloe Oberman! Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

Barely a month into the New Year, Chloe Oberman, adminis-trative support clerk in the Job

Corps National Office, has multiple reasons to celebrate. On December 10, 2013, Chloe was awarded her Asso-ciates Degree in Business Management and Supervision from Red Rocks Community College. On January 27, 2014, Chloe officially transitioned from a student trainee in the Pathways Program to a career

U.S. Forest Service employee.

During the past four years, Chloe, a graduate of the

Chloe Oberman staffs a Forest Service booth at a Denver University Career Fair in May 2010. Photo courtesy of Chloe Oberman

Collbran Job Corps Cen-ter, has rotated through various positions in the Forest Service offices in Golden, CO, including External Affairs and the JCNO Budget Staff. Chloe enjoys working in the financial management are-na and she plans to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at CSU Global. In the coming months, as a newly minted career employee, Chloe will complete details in Fleet, Human Resources, and Acquisi-

Age: 25 Hometown: Columbia, TN Job Corps Center: Oconaluftee Career training area: Electrical Trade Career: Residential Electrician Wage: $9 hour Personal Quote: “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Lao-Tzu

tions Management to help her determine which staff group is the best fit for her job skills, tal-ents, and interests.

Chloe is just embarking on her journey with the Forest Service, but she is certainly an employee to keep your eyes on as her ca-reer progresses.

“Before I went to Job Corps, I had no direction in life and I was very care-free. The Job Corps expe-

rience forced me to take responsibility for my actions, learn discipline, and helped me realize

that I could make something of myself.”

—Chloe Oberman

felt a sense of relief and happi-ness – but missing everyone. I also knew that my classmates, who viewed me as the class clown, outgoing, helpful to oth-ers, friendly and not shallow, honest and straight forward, would miss me. They all knew that I would succeed.”

After graduation from Wolf Creek, she applied for a fire apprentice program. She did not get the job. Not giving up, she applied for an advanced forestry program at the Schenck JCCCC in North Caroli-na. She was accepted. For the next 16 months, she studied, learned, and earned her red card as a Type II Firefighter. She traveled to the Shoshone National Forest in Dubois, WY, as a reforestation technician and completed a five month required assignment, two of these months working alone.

In the spring of 2012, Cassan-dra took a permanent position in timber management on the Huron-Manistee NF, in Oscoda, MI. She brought with her a backpack of clothes. She bor-rowed a bike, walked almost everywhere, rented a cabin and purchased a vehicle. “I used everything Job Corps taught me. It helped me get everything I have now – job, house and vehicle.”

Along with her marking crew duties, Cassan-dra staffed a fire engine during high fire danger on the forest. The Little Mack Fire, an 800-acre jack pine fire required the crew to work all night. “I was scared… it was amazing how the jack pine lights up and has its own voice and changes direction… I real-ized how important communica-tion is on a fire. I told Ben (Ben Eby- Engine Captain) I wanted to be a firefighter.”

A few months later Cassandra and a 20-person crew traveled to assist with Hurricane Sandy cleanup in New Jersey and Con-necticut, her first time to the East Coast.

Cassandra is currently on a 120-day detail as a lead timber marker. She will start her “pay it forward initiative” when the new Job Corps/Forest Program starts this March. The first life lesson I will share with the stu-dents will be “don’t assume anything. Don’t assume that what is around you is all evil – the world is so big and there is so much out there.”

Job Corps Graduate Cassandra Ramos Pays It Forward Clara Johnson, Job Corps Liaison, Region 9


Cassandra’s success started when she left Santa Maria, CA, and enrolled at the Wolf Creek Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center (JCCCC) in Glide, OR. Santa Maria is a city in South-ern California, 120 miles north-west of Los Angeles. It is known for its wine industry and Santa Maria-style barbecue.

As violence, drugs and gang activity increased, retirees and families left, leaving a bleak future for those who remained. “I didn’t see my life changing as long as I stayed,” said Cassan-dra. Cassandra’s high school recommended her to the Big Brother Big Sister Program and there she met Kimberly. “Kimberly was the first person who believed in me and taught me about the good in the world. She was the first person to care for me.”

Open to the world of possibili-ties in Glide, she sharpened her natural resources/forestry skills. She improved her educa-tion and gained life, communi-cation, and finance skills. She mastered the Global Position-ing System (GPS), forestry tools, measurement tools and learned about tree identifica-tion, tree care and chain saw operation. She volunteered for most leadership programs and graduated 18 months later. “I

Cassandra on the Huron-Manistee National Forest in January 2013. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth McNichols

“I took one big step onto that bus and look where it got me

- a good job with insurance and retirement and a future and meeting lots of new people.” —Cassandra Ramos

“People are al-ways coming in and out of your life. Every per-son can pass on a tool to

help you. Peo-ple are mes-

sengers. Peo-ple give you

tools that you need in that part of your

life.” —Cassandra

Ramos

sional job. They are taught to not waste material and try to reuse as much material as possible. It has been a pleasure to have and work with Job Corps on this pro-ject.”

The home will have 5 bedrooms to accommodate the family as well as their nineteen year-old

son who has spe-cial needs. The moment was one of celebration for the family.

The new home-owners are re-quired to put in sweat equity to show that they are serious about being good part-ners and to help them feel like the home is truly theirs. The new homeowners did the excavation and backfilling for the foundation to help make the

wall raising possible.

Habitat for Humanity is a non-profit non-denominational Chris-tian organization dedicated to eliminating poverty and home-lessness. They build simple, decent, affordable houses with help from the community and

story is significant. Submit high quality photographs in .jpeg format with your story. A good photo will convey the essence of what you want people to re-member. As they say, “A pic-ture is worth a thousand words.” Provide captions for your photographs. A reader wants the answers to the follow-ing questions: Who is that? (identify people from left to

Help tell the story of Forest Ser-vice Job Corps and create a last-ing record of what Job Corps students accomplish each and every day. A good story will an-swer the questions of what hap-pened, when did it take place, who was involved, why was it done, where did it take place and how did it happen. Describe the accomplishment, internal and external partners and why your

right); What’s going on?, When and where was this?, How did this occur? Your audience wants to understand your pic-ture.

Call Alicia D. Bennett at 303-275-5934 or send an e-mail to: [email protected] describing the story you would like to write and to discuss its placement.

Job Corps in Action—Columbia Basin JCCCC Susan Mann, Business Community Liaison, Columbia Basin Job Corps

Write a Job Corps Success Story for the Courier! Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office


Individuals pictured in Hard Hats are Columbia Basin Job Corps CCC. Standing Left to Right: Tim Mitchell, UBC Carpentry Instructor, Jacob Derrick, Kalie Provins, Anthony Bargma, Brad Rieush, Alex Wilson, Sean LaFrancois, Homeowners Darrell and Tammy Roloff, Terry Winn, Ronald Beeny, Justus Griffin, Alex Statstill and Habitat for Humanity Project Manager Terry Hall. Kneeling left to right: John Coals, Trevor Bradt, Jalen Rude-Filgo, Jeremy Ward, Jason Gilbert, Yasara Alverez. Photo courtesy of Susan Mann

On September 27, 2013, Habi-tat for Humanity of Greater Moses Lake along with Colum-bia Basin Job Corps students and family and friends of the partner family helped raise the walls of the organization’s 12th House in Moses Lake, WA..

Columbia Basin Job Corps car-pentry students were at the jobsite 5 days a week with a crew of 5 to 6 students, averag-ing 250 hours per week.

Terry Hall, Habitat for Humanity Building Manager, said that “Job Corps are hardworking students and do a very profes-

the new homeowner and their fami-ly. The houses are sold to the part-ner families at a no-profit and no-interest mortgage.

Side note on Job Corps students pictured:

Students Sean LaFran-cois, Terry Winn and Ronald Beeny were among 8 students that successfully trained with the Cle Elum Ranger Dis-trict of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National For-est and became FFT2 cer-tified. Winn and Beeny spent 8 weeks with a crew on the Olympic national forest working on fires in the Northwest and LaFrancois completed a 3 week assignment with the Cle Elum crew. Ronald Beeny would like to pur-sue and career as a wildland fire fighter.

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Michigan Caterpillar Facility, Michigan Army National Guard Facility, and the Con-sumers Energy Ludington Pump Storage Project in addition to learning about the Ferris State University Heavy Equipment Program.

“This is a great way for the Forest Service to expose students to career opportu-nities in the Forest Service,” said Charles. “They will be able to build their operating skills, see how we operate during wildland fire opera-tion and position themselves for a better opportunity with-in the Forest Service, while helping meet other program needs.”

Heavy equipment operations are an integral component of fire management and the Forest Service. Visiting Civil-ian Conservation Centers and building long term rela-tionships with the various technical programs allows heavy equipment experts an opportunity to connect with youth on a personal and professional level, while ex-posing them to different ca-reer opportunities within the National Forests. The pro-gram is expected to start once funding is secured. For more information, contact Charles Barron at 231-723-2211.


Huron-Manistee National Forest Finds Innovative Ways to Partner with Forest Service Job Corps Clara Johnson, Job Corps Liaison, Region 9

In July 2010, the Chief told more than 100 students at the Forest Service Harpers Ferry Job Corps Center, "You are part of the Forest Service, a part of the agen-cy - I want you to under-stand that. And after gradu-ation, I'd like you to consid-er working for the Forest Service. We want to entice you to have a career with the service."

For more than seven years, the agency has aggressively recruited Job Corps students and developed programs to make these statements a reality.

In 2012, Charles Barron II, Heavy/Fire Equipment Oper-ator for the Huron-Manistee NF had an idea. “Why not bridge the Job Corps heavy equipment program with ours?” From this idea came a unique proposal to transport students enrolled in the Anaconda, Cass, Fort Simcoe, Jacobs Creek, and Mingo Job Corps Centers heavy equipment programs to the Huron-Manistee NF for three weeks. Once on site, students would learn and operate different types of heavy equipment while completing projects, and learning about Forest Ser-vice operations.

The students also would benefit from tours of the

Job Corps Heavy Equipment students working on the Huron-Manistee National Forest. Undated photo courtesy of Charles Barron II



lying on the ground in the forest and picked the lid up. The lid was covering a buried trash can containing TNT. A second bur-ied trash can containing TNT was found by an employee from Halsey NE, a short time after the first. A bomb squad was called in to analyze the TNT and to detonate it. The TNT dated

to pose a substantial safety risk to the American public.

The detonators of ordnances many years old can deteriorate, making them more sensitive to disturbance and handling.

On November 28, 2013, I trav-eled to the McKelvie National Forest to observe a bomb squad detonate Trinitrotoluene (TNT) buried on forest lands. The TNT was discovered by an environmental auditor tracing water lines to and from water wells. In the process the auditor noticed a trash can lid

back to the 1960’s. Members of the public should never touch or handle UXOs. Always report the location of UXOs to your local police so that bomb dis-posal squads can ensure prop-er disposal.

minutes later, just as units from the Lincoln Volunteer Fire De-partment, Edmonson County EMS Director, Edmonson Coun-ty JAWS of Life, and Edmonson County Ambulance Service be-gan responding, Great Onyx students and staff assembled at the crash scene. The para-medics were quickly informed of the status of the victims and the JAWS crew began their preparation for stabilization and transportation of both victims. The Mammoth Cave National Park Rangers arrived a few minutes later to begin their investigation of the drunk and drugged driver.

A field sobriety test was admin-istered to Great Onyx Assistant Work Programs Officer Gary Sayer, the drunk and drugged

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On December 17, 2013, Great Onyx Job Corps hosted a simu-lation-supported live training for emergency response to a mock alcohol and drug related auto-mobile accident, part of Nation-al Drug Facts Week, a health observance week for teens that aims to shatter the myths about drugs and drug abuse. What follows is a re-enactment of an event that Great Onyx Job Corps hopes will create awareness of the dangers of drinking, drug-ging, and driving.

“There is an emergency in the Administration Parking Lot, Wellness Staff please the re-spond” Center Administrative Officer Melissa Vincent’s voice broke through the silence on

the center radios. Twice more the call was made by Ms. Vin-cent and the Wellness Staff finally responded on the third call. Ms. Vincent broke the si-lence of the radios again with

the announcement, “911 has been dialed.” Great Onyx nurs-ing staff members Rita Bush and Jamie Priddy arrived on the scene to assess a crash scene for possible dangers. Three

THE SAFETY JOURNEY The safer we are... The more successful we are...

Great Onyx Students and Staff Learn Realistic Reasons not to Drink or Drug and Drive Joseph Hauck, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Specialist, Great Onxy Job Corps

The Hidden Dangers of Unexploded Ordinances Daniel Frye, Safety Officer, Pine Ridge Job Corps

Explosives inside buried trash can Photo courtesy of Daniel Frye

Buried trash can with lid opened Photo courtesy of Daniel Frye

Detonation cord found in trash can Photo courtesy of Daniel Frye

Unexploded ordnance (UXOs), weapons that did explode when they were employed, continue

Foreground (L to R) – Jason Vincent, JAWS of Life; Daniel Highbaugh, JAWS of Life; Jamie Priddy, LPN GOJC; Mike Clubb, JAWS of Life (at Driver’s Door). Background (L to R) – Daniel Massey, JAWS of Life (On JAWS Vehicle); Matt Sanders, LVFD (next to fire pumper), Steve Sanders, LVFD Chief.

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driving suspect and the second car involved in the accident were searched. National Park Rangers Lance Houk and Doy Russell placed Mr. Sayer under arrest for open containers (open alcohol containers in the vehicle) and possession of a controlled substance that they found in his head band and sock.

Meanwhile, members of the Edmonson County EMS, ambu-lance crew, and Lincoln Volun-teer Fire Department loaded Great Onyx Math Teacher Justin Hatchett into an ambulance and began cutting away the driver’s door and roof of one of the vehicles in order to extricate Great Onyx Acting Center Direc-tor Curtis Haynes. After almost thirty-five minutes, an average amount of time needed to free car accident victims, Mr. Haynes was freed from the

crash, placed on a backboard, and loaded into an ambulance.

Later Mr. Haynes would de-scribe the experience as a life changing moment as the sounds of the metal cracking and crunching just beside his head made him want to flinch away; however, he could not due to the neck support collar and other medical restraints that he had been put into. “I hope that I never have to go through something like that for real.”

Some students were visibly shaken by the event and many had doubts that the crash was faked. “It seemed so real,” re-marked one student. Another student asked, “Are you sure this is not really happening?” Great Onyx Mental Health Con-sultant Tammy Shaffer was on the scene to help any students that might have problems with

THE SAFETY JOURNEY The safer we are... The more successful we are...

. . .Realistic Reasons not to Drink or Drug and Drive (continued from page 8)

Joseph Hauck, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Specialist, Great Onxy Job Corps

Drunk driver Gary Sayer is led away in handcuffs as members of Edmonson County EMS and JAWS of Life extricate crash victim Curtis Haynes from his vehicle. Photo courtesy of Joseph Hauck

what they witnessed.

Great Onyx students and staff later attended an assembly to answer any questions concern-ing the event, along with learn-ing more about firsthand ac-counts of crashes involving alco-hol and/or drugs, and alterna-tives to drinking/drugging and driving or getting into a vehicle with an impaired driver.

Great Onyx Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center wishes to express a sincere Thank You to: Edmonson County Ambulance Service; Keith Sanders – Ed-monson County EMS Director; Lincoln Volunteer Fire Depart-ment (Steve Sanders – Chief); Edmonson County JAWS of Life, AIR Evac LIFETEAM Bowling Green, KY (Robert Rowland Pro-gram Director) for help in plan-ning the event; U.S. Department of the Interior Mammoth Cave National Park, David Alexander (Acting Chief Ranger), Joshua Clemons – Mammoth Cave Park Ranger, Lance Houk – Mam-moth Cave Park Ranger, Doy

JAWS of Life being used to rip away the vehicle door in order to extricate crash victim Curtis Haynes from the vehicle. Photo courtesy of Joseph Hauck

Russell – Mammoth Cave Park Ranger, Brian Sacia – Mam-moth Cave NP EMS Chief; Mickey’s Towing (Brownsville, KY); Big Country Auto Salvage – Mammoth Cave, KY; Mark Love for his make-up exper-tise; Great Onyx students: Dan-iel Dierolf, William Jones, and Bobby Hyde; and all of the Great Onyx Staff.

Edmonson County JAWS of Life crewman is cutting off the vehicle roof in order to extricate crash victim Curtis Haynes. Photo courtesy of Joseph Hauck

“I hope that I never have to go through something like that for real.”

—Great Onyx Acting Center Director Curtis Haynes

more lenient. Generally, Libby’s dogs stay with her for around 13 months before they are returned to the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind for final training; however, because Libby did not have a group of Puppy

Raisers with which to work while in CO, she determined that Trooper was not being giv-ing the best possibility of fully developing his potential. When she went back to North Carolina for the holidays, she returned him to the school’s Field Repre-sentative. Trooper is being evaluated to determine if his intelligence, high energy, and confident nature will best be served as a guide dog or in one of the other service arenas for which dogs are trained.

Although Libby misses Trooper, his departure will allow her time to pursue some of her other interests—like volunteer-ing more of her time to a music

Job Corps Employee Profile Meet Elizabeth “Libby” Bagwell, Property Management Specialist Alicia D. Bennett, Public Affairs Officer, Job Corps National Office

(L to R) Melanie Woolever, Trooper, Libby Bagwell, Pat Carnes, and Bob Carnes. Photo courtesy of Alicia D. Bennett


already managing the prop-erty of the Schenck, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Oconaluftee Job Corps centers in North Carolina. “I’ve always be-lieved in the mission of the Job Corps program and knew there was a real need for good property management. I was thrilled when I was offered the opportunity to

work with all 28 centers full-time—my promotion was icing on the cake!”

Outside the office, one of the most important pursuits that Libby pours her talent and heart into is raising and training guide dogs for the blind. Not long after leaving her job at the Southern Research Station to work in the Job Corps National Office in Golden, CO, Trooper, a pure-bred German Shepard, entered Libby’s life as an eight week old puppy—and also captured the hearts of employees throughout the Forest Service offices before his departure last December.

Guide dogs must be exposed early and often to situations that they might encounter as a companion to someone visually impaired. “It is my responsibility to prepare Trooper for every situation he might encounter in order to equip him for his future work as a guide,” says Libby.

Trooper accompanied Libby everywhere she went to ensure that he learned good manners both in private and in public, and training him was a demand-ing 24/7 operation, particularly since Libby has two dogs of her own with who she could be

Trooper alert to the movements of second floor R2 employees. Photo courtesy of Libby Bagwell

“We didn’t know if we were do-

ing you a favor to save your life. We thought you would be a

vegetable.”

A neurologist spoke these words to Libby Bagwell eight months after her head-on car collision in 1991. “I’m thankful that God thought I still had some work to do here,” says Libby.

Libby officially began her job as Property Management Special-ist in the Job Corps National Office on July 28, 2012. Howev-er, as an employee of the South-ern Research Station, she was

Libby relaxes in the outdoors with her favorite grand-son. Photo courtesy of Libby Bagwell

and drama program at her church or going out on forest fires. When asked where she sees herself in ten years, Libby says she expects to be retired and back in North Carolina. But she adds, “I would still continue to train dogs for the handi-capped. Although there are many schools that provide guide dogs for the blind, individuals with other disabilities usually have to pay a lot of money to get a trained service dog.”

The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind invests more than $55,000 to breed, train and place companion dogs. Individu-als with disabilities pay nothing for the dogs or the training. Funding comes solely from indi-vidual, group, and corporate donations and foundation grants. Visit http://www.guidedog.org/ to learn more.

“I’m grateful to be able to take this undeveloped,

fluffy bundle of love and help turn him or her into a life-changing companion

for someone who’s visually impaired. There’s nothing

more rewarding than watching a beautiful adult

dog that you’ve trained guide a person down a

sidewalk, around obsta-cles, through doors and to an empty chair with hardly

a pause.” —Libby Bagwell

Hometown: Charlotte, NC

Duty Station: Golden, CO

Years with Forest Service: 22

Education: BA, Sociology, Wake Forest University

Fun Fact: My husband of 36 years refused to move to Colo-rado after I took the job so we are coping with a long-distance separation.

Favorite Quote: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

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Civilian Conservation Center

National Forest/Grasslands Region

State

Activation/Transfer Date

Anaconda Beaverhead-Deerlodge 1 Montana 3/15/1966

Angell Siuslaw 6 Oregon 4/28/1965

Blackwell Chequamegon-Nicolet 9 Wisconsin 11/30/1965

Boxelder Black Hills 2 South Dakota 12/6/1965

Cass Ozark - St. Francis 8 Arkansas 6/15/1965

Centennial

Boise

4

Idaho

5/15/1965 Original Name: Marsing FS Transfer 1/17/10

Collbran

Grand Mesa, Uncompaghre and Gunnison

2

Colorado

11/1/1965 FS Transfer 1/17/10

Columbia Basin

Okanogan - Wenatchee

6 Washington

11/1/1965/ FS Transfer 1/17/10

Curlew Colville 6 Washington 4/28/1965

Flatwoods George Washington- Jeffer-son

8 Virginia 9/15/1965

Frenchburg Daniel Boone 8 Kentucky 9/10/1965

Fort Simcoe Okanogan -Wenatchee 6 Washington 4/15/1966/ FS Transfer 1/17/10

Golconda Shawnee 9 Illinois 4/28/1965

Great Onyx

Land Between the Lakes

8

Kentucky

6/15/1965 FS Transfer 07/01/08

Harpers Ferry Monongahela 9 West Virginia 4/15/1966 FS Transfer 7/01/08

Jacobs Creek Cherokee 8 Tennessee 6/21/1965

Lyndon B. Johnson

National Forests of North Carolina (Nantahala)

8

North Carolina

2/1/1965 Original Name Arrowood

Mingo

Mark Twain

9

Missouri

11/1/1965 FS Transfer 2004

Oconaluftee

National Forests of North Carolina (Nantahala)

8

North Carolina

10/15/1965 FS Transfer 7/01/08

Ouachita Ouachita 8 Arkansas 2/6/1965

Pine Knot Daniel Boone 8 Kentucky 11/22/1965

Pine Ridge Nebraska 2 Nebraska 12/6/1965

Schenck

National Forests of North Carolina (Pisgah)

8

North Carolina

5/18/1965

Timber Lake Mount Hood 6 Oregon 8/10/1965

Trapper Creek Bitterroot 1 Montana 1/5/1966

Treasure Lake

Cibola NF/ Black Kettle and McClellan Creek National Grasslands

3

Oklahoma

11/15/1965 FS Transfer 1/17/10

Weber Basin

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache

4

Utah

12/11/1965 FS Transfer 1/17/10

Wolf Creek Umpqua 6 Oregon 4/13/1965

FOREST SERVICE JOB CORPS ASSOCIATED NATIONAL FORESTS AND GRASSLANDS


Forest Service Region Centers Center Director(s)

Region 1

RF: Neal M. Rahm

ARF, Operations: Clayton Weaver

Job Corps Program: Vernard L. Erickson

Trapper Creek

Dickinson

Anaconda

Cedar Flat

Cottonwood

Robert W. Steiner

Dale S. Thacker

John M. Johnson

Gerhart H. Nelson

Robert R. Lusk,

Robert Smart

Region 2

RF: David S. Nordwell

ARF: Operations: Howard C. Lee

Job Corps Program: Kenneth A. Taber

Pegosa Springs

Boxelder

Pine Ridge

Jerald R. Martinez

Henry R. Taylor

Walter J. FIllmore

Region 3

RF: William D. Hurst

ARF, Operations: Walter L. Graves

Job Corps Program: Paul D. Wild

Alpine

Heber

Grants

Mountaineer

Billy H. Shelby

Duane G. Brean

Talmdage L. Figart, Jr.

Region 4

RF: Floyd Iverson

ARF, Operations: Thomas H. Van Meter

Job Corps Program: Richard W. Henthorne

Clear Creek Charles J. Hendricks

Region 5

RF: Charles A. Connaughton

ARF, Operations: Donald R. Ball

Job Corps Program: Eugene R. Lepley

Fenner Canyon

Los Pinos

Sly Park

Alder Springs

Robert J. McDonald

George Liddicoatt

James H. Shiro

Adolph R. Groncki

Robert L. Royer

Region 6

RF: J. Herbert Stone

ARF, Operations: Marvin L. Smith

Job Corps Program: Jack E. Handy

Timber Lake

Angell

Wolf Creek

Cispus

Norman E. Gould

Robert G. Lewis

Richard M. Pomeroy

Zane G. Smith

Region 8

RF: E.W. Schultz

ARF, Operations: Arthur A. Grumble

Job Corps Program: Clarence M. Evenson

Hodgens

Ouachita

Cass

Frenchburg

Pine Knot

Arrowood

Schenck

Jacobs Creek

New Waverly

Stanford M. Adams

Ralph H. Kunz

Ronald J. Strauss

Bernard J. Schruender

A. Earl Haught

Harvey Price

Philip M. Clark

Harold G. Armstrong

William L. Sherrer

Region 9

RF: George S. James

ARF, Operations: Velden A. Parker

Golconda

Branchville

Vesuvius

Hoxey

Ojibway

Lydick Lake

Isabella

Poplar Bluff

Blue Jay

Ripton

Anthony

Clam Lake

Blackwell

L. Wayne Bell

George M. Smith

Roderic D. Herbrandson

Charles G. Anderson

John V. Lupis

James L. Kimball

Robert R. Tyrrell

James S. Berlin

Patrick J. Sheehan

George S. Bowliing

Robert J. McCarthy

Jack A. Weissling

Roger B. Johnson

FIRST FOREST SERVICE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CENTERS AND CRITICAL STAFF


For further information about Forest Service Job Corps contact: Alicia D. Bennett Public Affairs Officer USDA Forest Service Job Corps 740 Simms Street Golden, CO 80401 Phone: 303-275-5934 Fax: 303-275-5940 E-mail: [email protected] To subscribe to the Courier, send your e-mail address to: [email protected] We’re On the Web:

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Job Corps is the nation’s largest residential, educational, and career technical training pro-gram that prepares economical-ly disadvantaged youth, ranging in age from 16 to 24, for pro-ductive employment. USDA Forest Service operates 28 Job Corps Civilian Conservation Cen-ters (JCCCCs) with a capacity to house, educate, and train over 6,200 enrollees. Students at-tend academic and vocational classes and learn critical life skills in preparation for long-term employment, careers in natural resources, continued education or military service.

The JCCCCs provide a unique opportunity for at-risk youth to take control of and steer their lives in a positive direction and contribute to the conser-vation of the nation’s public natural resources. JCCCCs are associated with national for-ests or grasslands and are operated by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service in part-nership with the Department of Labor (DOL).

1964 — 2014

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