Rucker Canyon in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona.

Wild Arizona, in partnership with the Coronado National Forest’s Douglas Ranger District, is announcing its six-week summer residential Youth Conservation Corps program for 2022 and is seeking high school-aged crew members with opportunities for a wide range of outdoor work including backcountry and frontcountry trail maintenance, campground maintenance, and other National Forest-wide activities.

Crew Members

Are you or your child a high school student who enjoys the outdoors and conservation and would like to get paid to work and live together with a crew of similarly aged people, camping and backpacking to remote areas in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeast Arizona and learning the skills required to maintain and repair hiking trails?

  • A completed repair with technical rockwork
  • YCC Crew Members rebuild damaged drainage crossing
  • Newly rebuilt trail
  • The Rucker Admin Site, base camp for of the YCC program