Field News Recap- July 2025

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young adult camping crews

All ICC crews are currently wearing yellow hard hats despite the crew names due to a supplier shortage. 

Red Crew (YA 25) began July in the Boise National Forest – Cascade Ranger District, where they completed forest thinning. In the second and third weeks of the month, they continued thinning work, then moved to the Payette National Forest – New Meadows and McCall Ranger Districts to conduct forest data surveys. They ended the month with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Mill Creek, where they focused on invasive plant removal and trail maintenance.

Orange Crew (YA 26) worked with the Payette National Forest – New Meadows and McCall Ranger Districts to perform forest data surveys. They then partnered with the Nez Perce–Clearwater National Forest, clearing trails by bucking logs. To close July, they joined the Caribou-Targhee National Forest – Ashton and Island Park Ranger Districts for trail maintenance.

Blue Crew (YA 27) started the month with the Payette National Forest – New Meadows and McCall Ranger Districts, where they conducted forest data surveys. For the next three weeks, they partnered with the Idaho Falls Bureau of Land Management to spray herbicide for invasive species management east of Idaho Falls. They finished July back with the Payette National Forest conducting more forest data surveys.

youth camping crews

All ICC crews are currently wearing yellow hard hats despite the crew names due to a supplier shortage. 

Blue Crew (YCC 1) began July with a project on Idaho Power mitigation lands near Glenns Ferry, removing invasive plants and installing fencing. They then joined the Boise National Forest – Emmett Ranger District and Mountain Home Ranger Districts to build firelines in preparation for future prescribed burns.

Red Crew (YCC 2) partnered with the Boise National Forest – Cascade Ranger District to build Beaver Dam Analogs (BDAs). They later moved to the Hood National Forest, where they performed trail brushing and tread repair.

Orange Crew (YCC 3) started with the Boise National Forest – Cascade Ranger District conducting fish surveys. They then joined the Powder Basin Watershed Council to construct BDAs for habitat restoration, before finishing the month with the Idaho Panhandle National Forest on trail brushing projects along the St. Joe River.

youth community crews

All ICC crews are currently wearing yellow hard hats despite the crew names due to a supplier shortage. 

Both Yellow Crew (YCCom 13) and Blue Crew (YCCom 14) honed their tree identification skills while updating the College of Idaho’s Tree Inventory in Caldwell. They used clinometers, diameter tapes, and tablets to collect and input data about 578 trees that will be used to guide future planting and tree maintenance decisions, as well as quantify the many benefits its healthy urban forest provides.  

Later in the month, both crews reestablished mulch rings at Cassia Park in Boise. They removed encroaching grass and weeds and added wheelbarrows of mulch around each tree in the park, which helps reduce competition for water and nutrients, minimizes evaporation, adds organic matter back to the soil, and reduces damage by weedeaters.

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