Field News Recap- June 2025

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young adult camping crews

June 4 - august 15

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

Red Crew (YA 25) spent two weeks in Halfway, Oregon with Pine Valley Firewise conducting fuels reduction on private land. In their third week, they worked with the Boise National Forest at Clear Creek Meadow on forest thinning in a sensitive floodplain area.

Orange Crew (YA 26) began the session at Mill Creek with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, clearing woody debris and improving riparian areas. In week two, they worked at Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve in Boise removing invasive plants from this urban natural space.

Blue Crew (YA 27) contributed to fuel break maintenance and vegetation management in southern Idaho, reducing wildfire risk and improving ecological resilience.

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youth camping crews

may 31 - july 5

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

Blue Crew (YCC 1) spent the first two weeks at Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge in southeast Idaho, installing and repairing more than seven miles of fencing to protect wetland habitat from cattle intrusion. They then went on to partner with the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (WA DNR) on their next two weeks of projects. The first being constructing mountain bike trails at the Naneum Ridge State Forest, then installing weed control fabric and planting small plugs of native grasses and sedges into bare ground.

Red Crew (YCC 2) spent their first two weeks with the Fremont-Winema National Forest in southeast Oregon, completing conifer thinning in aspen-meadow habitats to support wildlife restoration. Their third week took them to Washington’s Lacamas Prairie and Washougal Oaks Natural Areas with WA DNR for invasive plant species removal and fencing repair. In the last week of June, the crew installed post-and-rail fencing at White’s Ridge Trailhead near Yakima with Washington DNR, supporting habitat protection and recreation management.

Orange Crew (YCC 3) began the month building post-and-rail fencing at White’s Ridge Trailhead with WA DNR. In week two, they completed a mountain bike trail construction project in Naneum Ridge State Forest near Ellensburg, WA. For the final two weeks of June, they worked at Douglas Falls removing invasive species and maintaining trails in a forested area also managed by WA DNR.

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youth community crews

june 2 - july 3

Details to come.

internship programs

Macie: Cultural Resources Intern

Meet Macie!

This summer, Cultural Resources AmeriCorps Member Macie is supporting collections management and fossil preservation at Hagerman Fossil Beds in Idaho.

This month, Cultural Resources AmeriCorps Member Macie continued her internship at Hagerman Fossil Beds in Idaho, supporting collections management and fossil preservation. She recently completed prep work on a giant camel skull and joined a geology hike at Craters of the Moon to better understand the landscapes connected to her collections work. These hands-on experiences are helping her deepen her knowledge of the region’s geologic history while continuing her core work reorganizing and preserving fossil specimens for long-term research and care.

Athena: Natural Resources Management Intern

Meet Athena!

Athena, a Natural Resources Management AmeriCorps Member at Nez Perce National Historical Park, recently joined fellow intern Sara and partners from the Washington Bee Atlas for a native bee survey at Whitman Mission National Historic Site. The team worked to identify and document pollinators as part of a broader effort to support native bee populations and monitor ecosystem health across public lands.