DIFFERENCE MAKER: Rockland Conservation and Service Corps
from WCBSAM: On-Demand
SA: There's an old expression, many hands make light work. That is the sound of a shovel moving stone and soil for a bucket brigade on a steep slope in Bear Mountain BS: Nine inches of rain happening over a very short time span will do a number on a natural surface trail SA: Ben Sugar with the New York New Jersey Trail Conference leading the repair work on the Appalachian Trail following last summer's devastating storm. Doing the heavy lifting, young people with the Rockland Conservation and Service Corps. So what else do they do? KG: Working on county trails, on water quality with Lamont Dorey down at the Hudson River Field Station, educating people about trail stewardship, and water quality SA: Since 2001 coordinator Kathy Galione has seen many young students move on to vital work KG: Planners to lawyers, doctors, all over the United States as well as in Europe and we have some people in New Zealand SA: 21 year old Michael Mulvihill MM: I'm interested in being a park ranger, hopefully a state park somewhere nice SA: 21 year old Cira Durcan CD: I'll be applying to PhD programs in ecology or wildlife conservation SA: Rockland County is one-third parkland, Galione says it is the perfect place for a young person to be in service to the environment KG: There's nothing you can't learn here in Rockland that they could apply other places SA: In Bear Mountain State Park, Sean Adams WCBS 880 NewS
Embed this episode
No transcript yet.