Americorps NCCC is a national service program for young adults and is modeled after the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Working teams of 10 to 12 members travel across the United States to perform community service with focus on issue areas including unmet community needs, environment, education and public safety. Western Pennsylvania Conservancy was granted two teams for a total of eight weeks at the WPC Northwest Field Station along Lake Pleasant in Erie County. The Americorps teams lived and worked at the field station through the middle of July. They focused their efforts on invasive non-native plant management on WPC lands surrounding the lake. The teams also provided assistance to Presque Isle State Park, Erie National Wildlife Refuge, Erie County Conservation District and Lake Erie Region Conservancy on a number of different projects, including additional invasive non-native plant management and an inventory of trees in downtown Erie.

Featured in today's photo are: (Front l-r): Tami Campbell (WPC Stewardship Coordinator), Julianne Rader (Kansas), Alyssa Andrews (New York), Caitlin Arcangeli (Vermont), Jillian Krupski (New York). (Middle) Jamie Bushboom (Nebraska). (Back l-r): Megan Bradburn (WPC Intern), Scott Lunn (Arizona), Robert Sefrit (Missouri), Nathaniel Marcun (Wisconsin), Curtis Stumpf (WPC Watershed Resource Specialist), Amy Busch (WPC Student Conservation Association Intern), and Tamara Smith (WPC Aquatic Ecologist).

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