{"id":23396,"date":"2018-08-03T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T19:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=23396"},"modified":"2018-08-05T17:36:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T21:36:17","slug":"maryland-conservation-corps-honors-32-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2018\/08\/03\/maryland-conservation-corps-honors-32-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Conservation Corps Honors 32 Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Award-Winning Program Enhances Maryland Public Lands<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> honored 32 members of the 2017-2018 Maryland Conservation Corps<\/a> during their graduation program July 31. The ceremony commemorated the students\u2019 completion of 10 months of job training, conservation work and stewardship with the Maryland Park Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Members from across the country, all between the ages of 17 and 25, completed 1,700 hours of service. This year\u2019s crews planted thousands of trees, bay grasses and native plants; treated trees against harmful insects and diseases; and taught environmental education programs to more than 34,000 people.<\/p>\n

The corps worked to improve more than 2,000 acres of park and public land around the state and enhanced miles of shoreline to mitigate the effects of erosion and storm damage. Members also received training in emergency medical response, wildland firefighting, basic water rescue and environmental education and interpretation.<\/p>\n

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The graduation ceremony held at Wye Island Natural Resource Management Area<\/a> in Queen Anne\u2019s County emphasized the participants’ achievements and the values imparted by their work, including leadership, responsibility, and effective teamwork.<\/p>\n

\u201cA devotion to public service, a passion for environmental stewardship, a commitment to one\u2019s work and one\u2019s team and a drive to see a project through from beginning to end are all traits that will follow these graduates for the rest of their lives,\u201d Maryland Natural Resources Secretary Belton said.<\/p>\n

The Maryland Conservation Corps, an award-winning AmeriCorps program, has been managed by the Maryland Park Service since 1984.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Award-Winning Program Enhances Maryland Public Lands The Maryland Department of Natural Resources honored 32 members of the 2017-2018 Maryland Conservation Corps during their graduation program July 31. The ceremony commemorated the students\u2019 completion of 10 months of job training, conservation work and stewardship with the Maryland Park Service. Members from across the country, all between  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,12],"tags":[3300,2950,3139],"class_list":["post-23396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-maryland-conservation-corps","tag-queen-annes-county","tag-wye-island-natural-resource-management-area"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23396"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23410,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23396\/revisions\/23410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}