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Work of Boston’s Youth
Conservation Corps Celebrated
Celebration and Tours hosted by
Boston Natural Areas Network
BOSTON, MA, August 2, 2010 – On Thursday, August 12 from 11:30 am
to 1:30 pm, Boston Natural Areas Network will host at 62 Summer
Street, Boston, a celebration of the hard work and accomplishments
of the Youth Conservation Corps.
YCC participants will share presentations on their summer
accomplishments and a special slideshow with the highlights of their
activities.
On Friday August 13 at each YCC team will provide onsite tours
with presentations detailing their achievements. Presentations will
begin with the East Boston Team at 8:30 am at East Boston Greenway
Caboose near South Bremen & Marginal Streets. The Neponset River
Team will meet for tours at 10:30 am at the Hallet Street Entrance
to Pope John Paul II Park, Dorchester. And the Urban Wilds team will
meet at 12:30 pm at the Allandale Woods Urban Wild, behind
Annunciation Church, 7 VFW Parkway, West Roxbury.
Thirty- nine (39) youth have spent the summer at work
painting murals, clearing brush, taking out invasive species and
creating new habitat and walkable trails. Youth conservation teams,
supported by neighboring community volunteers and partnerships among
government and local non-profits, worked over the summer building
new and refurbishing old trails and bridges in the Allendale Woods
Urban Wild in Jamaica Plain, creating new habitat and supporting new
plantings at Pope John Paul II park in Dorchester and painting
murals along the East Boston Greenway.
The East Boston crew also landscaped along the Greenway and did
conservation projects in nearby Belle Isle Marsh. While completing
this work, BNAN YCC teens learned about urban forest ecosystems,
wetlands, invasive versus native plants and different types of
conservation protection for natural areas. |
