AmeriCorps

Attempts to cut the federal agency, AmeriCorps, led the University of Wyoming to find different funding to support its extension office summer volunteer positions.

This Casper urban farm expected an AmeriCorps NCCC team. When NCCC disbanded, the community found a way to get one anyway.

The organization is trying to keep a critical piece of its teachers.

Leaders have not yet called off summer volunteers and are seeking ways to keep programming after federal program termination.

The Forest Corps, a new collaboration between AmeriCorps and the U.S. Forest Service, just inaugurated its first cohort of nearly 90 members. They’ll be sent out into priority landscapes across the West to do fuels reduction, prescribed burn and tree reseeding projects, all intended to support the USFS’ broader Wildfire Crisis and Reforestation strategies.