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Youth Conservation Corps
1971
I am one of 40 17 year old boys selected for a Presidential Pilot Program enacted by President Nixon and work for the U.S. Forest Service on Wayne National Forest with the Youth Conservation Corps in the year it is launched. Because I had been Features Editor of my school newspaper I had the unique opportunity to be published at this young age, having a two page article about the Youth Conservation Corps published in a nationally distributed magazine, Ohio Woodlands. I also wrote, designed, and published a 40 page booklet for the U.S. Forest Service about the Youth Conservation Corp, which was part of the materials reviewed by congress when they voted whether to renew the program.(They did, it still exists today, although in different form than the original.)
