{"id":36551,"date":"2022-08-04T12:07:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=36551"},"modified":"2022-08-04T12:59:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T16:59:43","slug":"conservation-jobs-corps-graduates-class-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/08\/04\/conservation-jobs-corps-graduates-class-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Jobs Corps Graduates Class of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Teens Complete Outdoor Jobs Skills Program\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52262745838_e4ffc8dd4a.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of group of youths and staff outside\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Luke Terrell, Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than three dozen young Marylanders celebrated their graduation from the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/cjc.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conservation Jobs Corps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> August 2 after five weeks of job training, conservation education, hard work, and fun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ceremony was held at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/pages\/southern\/sandypoint.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sandy Point State Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Anne Arundel County with former <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/publiclands\/Pages\/Veterans-Conservation-Corps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Veterans Conservation Corps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> crew leader Calvin Ogburn as the keynote speaker.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Maryland Conservation Jobs Corps is a summer program that provides opportunities for students ages 14-17 to complete hands-on projects throughout Maryland\u2019s State Parks. They engage in tasks that benefit communities and public lands while learning about public service and stewardship. They also participate in exciting outdoor activities, including camping and wildlife observation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the leadership of Maryland Park Service staff, crews throughout Maryland worked on a variety of projects, including storm and trash cleanup, trail work, native tree and pollinator garden planting, invasive plant removal, and trail-related construction and maintenance projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Teens Complete Outdoor Jobs Skills Program\u00a0 More than three dozen young Marylanders celebrated their graduation from the Conservation Jobs Corps August 2 after five weeks of job training, conservation education, hard work, and fun. The ceremony was held at Sandy Point State Park in Anne Arundel County with former Veterans Conservation Corps crew leader<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/08\/04\/conservation-jobs-corps-graduates-class-of-2022\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[4802,3552,4981],"class_list":["post-36551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-parks","tag-green-jobs","tag-maryland-conservation-jobs-corps","tag-maryland-state-parks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36557,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions\/36557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}