View from a YCC camp in the Chiricahua Wilderness

Wild Arizona, in partnership with the Coronado National Forest’s Douglas Ranger District, is announcing the six-week summer residential Youth Conservation Corps program for 2024. We are seeking crew members, age 15 to 17, who want to learn the skills needed to maintain hiking trails, live and work outside, and steward our public lands.

2024 YCC dates: June 9 – July 21, 2024

Crew Members

If you enjoy the outdoors, are interested in conservation and would like to get paid to work, camp and backpack in remote areas of the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona, please apply. Applications are due by April 1.

Assistant Crew Leaders

If you are a YCC and High School graduate interested a leadership role, please apply. You will help supervise, work along-side, and lead the YCC field crew, as part of a leadership team that includes professional Wild Stew Crew Leaders. Applications are due by April 1.