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Bioregional Outdoor
Education Project (BOEP)

Outdoor Education for K-8 Teachers

Canyon Country
Youth Corps (CCYC)

Employment, Education, and Leadership

Southwest
Ed-Ventures (SWED)

Adventure Education with a Mission and Expert Guides

Discovery Institute for Conservation Education (DICE)

Place-based Learning about the Colorado Plateau

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Crew Accomplishments

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Ten years of Conservation, Restoration, and Service Work by Youth on the Colorado Plateau

* 25,392 hours of outdoor education and job training

* 113,902 hours of service work on Colorado Plateau public lands

* 10,200 ponderosa pine tree saplings planted and shielded

* 26 natural springs improved and restored in the Abajo and La Sal Mountains

* 140 miles of trail construction and repair in the Abajo and La Sal Mountains, Canyonlands and Natural Bridges National Parks

* 37 habitat exclosures constructed to restore native habitat for fish, wildlife and migratory birds and to protect sensitive riparian and cryptobiotic soils

* 15 miles of fence removed on various public lands for habitat improvement

* 87 acres of brush cleared from recreation sites to reduce fire hazard

* 9 miles of trash removal along highways and 750+ lbs. of trash picked up from federal lands

* 28 miles of cattle fence construction and repair for range and habitat improvement

* 30 campsites rehabilitated

* 1,369 acres of mechanical thinning and slash piling to reduce fire hazard and for fire line

* 300 pounds of recycled materials transported to the Moab recycling center

* 6 large check dams built and ground stabilization done for wildlife

* 4 cattle guards constructed

* 3 Bighorn sheep guzzlers built

* 28.5 miles of invasive species removed on Dolores, Escalante, and Colorado Rivers (613 acres)

*  140 individual illegal OHV road closures completed on BLM lands

*  164 two-ton truck loads of cord wood hauled and loaded, Natural Bridges National Monument

* Numerous painting, trash clean up, sweeping, weeding projects, trimming trees, irrigation, fire hydrants painted for cities of Monticello and Blanding Utah

* Numerous Gunnison Sage Grouse feeding study plots prepped, recorded, and taken out

*  23,000 Sagebrush Seedlings planted for Gunnison Sage Grouse Habitat Improvement Projects

*  645 willow and cottonwoods planted along the Colorado River after invasive species removed

*  3 irrigation systems installed to water the revegtation along the Colorado River

*  350 square feet of exterior painting and 2 houses repaired for the Navajo people

*  Fence removal and hogan re-building at Edge of Cedars State Park