Description
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking applications for the FY26 Youth Conservation Corps - Bureau wide program. The program aims to provide opportunities for young people to gain work experience in public lands and natural resources management. The BLM will partner with qualified youth corps to engage individuals between the ages of 16 and 30 (inclusive) and veterans up to age 35 (inclusive), including tribal members. Proposed projects will support the goals of the Public Lands Corps Program and may incorporate the goals of the Indian Youth Service Corps Program. Projects will include enhancement of recreation opportunities, monitoring riparian area vegetation, habitat restoration, and development of natural and cultural resource stewardship plans.
• Enhancement of recreation opportunities through trail building, maintenance, and restoration
• Monitoring riparian area vegetation and hydrological functions
• Habitat restoration and wildlife protection
• Development and implementation of natural and cultural resource stewardship plans
• Studies such as resource inventories, historic or archival research, and archaeological excavation
• Preservation of cultural resources, including historic structures
• Seed collection for restoration of lands affected by natural disasters
• Reduction of wildfire risk to communities, watersheds, and other public land ecosystems
• Production of materials and programs on natural, cultural, and/or paleontological resources