GET INVOLVED
Crew Member Positions
- Serve as a team
- 6 different projects & partners
- 10 days on / 4 days off all summer
- No experience required
- 450-hour term of service
Crew Leader Positions
- Co-lead a crew
- 6 different projects & partners
- 10 days on / 4 days off all summer
- Conservation or leadership experience required
- 900-hour term of service
Individual Placement Positions
- Serve as an individual or pair
- 1 project or partner
- Follow partner schedule all summer
- Requirements vary by position
- 450-hour term of service
NATIONAL SERVICE
As an AmeriCorps program, WCC is a force multiplier putting federal dollars to work in our communities through our state commission, Serve Wyoming. In exchange for their service, WCC members receive a living allowance, wilderness medicine certifications, hands-on stewardship training, and a Segal Education Award that can be used for higher education.
Become a partner
Field Crews
A crew of 8 AmeriCorps members serve at the partner's site over the course of a ten-day "hitch". The partner provides a campsite, oversight throughout the project, one scheduled day off, and a half-day education activity. Field Crews are ideal for projects that are difficult to access or need extra hands. 640 project hours per crew.
Individual Placements
One or more AmeriCorps members serve with the partner for 12 weeks during the summer. The partner provides day-to-day supervision, project-specific training, and opportunities for development. Individual Placements are ideal for projects that need fewer hands for a longer duration. 450 project hours per member.
Projects We Support
- Tread
- Rock work
- Bridges
- Corridor
- Signage
- Wildlife friendly fencing
- Buck and rail
- Post and rail
- Trailheads
- Exclosures
- Beaver dam analogs
- Seed collection
- Invasive species removal
- Tree planting
- Hand spraying
- Fuels reduction
- Hazard tree removal
- Corridor clearing
- Crosscut
- Chainsaw
- Tent pad construction
- Picnic tables
- Fire pits
- Staining and painting
- General maintenance
Our Five-year impact
Every summer, WCC AmeriCorps members pledge to get things done for Wyoming. They build and maintain trails, restore waterways, protect wildlife habitat, and care for the public lands that define our state.
Over the past five years, 161 AmeriCorps members have completed 138 conservation projects statewide, including:
OUR HISTORY
The Wyoming Conservation Corps was founded by a University of Wyoming law student, Nick Agopian, who had participated in the Montana Conservation Corps and wanted to bring the idea back to UW. After pitching the idea to the Ruckelshaus Institute and the Wyoming Legislature, WCC was officially established in February 2007 and its first crew of AmeriCorps members took to the field that summer. Serve Wyoming, the state's national service commission, has awarded the AmeriCorps funds and supported the program since the inaugural year. WCC carries forward a tradition of national service on public lands that began with the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s and continued through the Youth Conservation Corps of the 1970s. WCC has evolved over the years, offering a variety of programs including an All-Women Crew and the Veteran Trail Crew. The WCC currently offers two AmeriCorps service programs, Field Crew & Individual Placement, and encourages veteran participation in both models.
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Wyoming Conservation Corps - Crane Hall 256
- Laramie, WY
- Email: wcc@uwyo.edu
- Phone: (307) 766-3048
- Mailing Address:
- Haub School of Environment & Natural Resources c/o WCC
- Bim Kendall House
- 804 E Fremont St
- Laramie, WY 82072
The University of Wyoming has earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, placing Wyoming's only four-year university with the top research universities in the United States.