March 17, 2020 | The first time I walked down the Natchez Trace, I was enchanted by the towering pine forests and palmetto sprinkled swampland. It almost seemed like two lost worlds colliding - vast, Jurassic forests that I could imagine dinosaurs roaming juxtaposed with swamps that somehow felt even more prehistoric. Even as we walked down the trail clearing corridor and access points, everything seemed somehow unchanged, eternal.

By Erin Murr, CLDP Crew 963

March 8, 2020 | Picture this: Bienville National Forest, in the sweet, sweet south, Mississippi. The weather: a low temperature, low humidity. A beautiful window to put some fire on the ground and burn the acres Crew 962 has desperately been waiting to ignite.

By Allison Lincoln, VFC Crew Leader

December 13, 2019 | With a quintessential southern mix of rain, lightning bugs, and humidity coupled with onboarding paperwork, trainings, graduations, etc. reflecting on 2019 kind of feels like a movie montage in my mind. So, let me Slow. It. Down. for a minute. 

By Brenna Kelly, Corps Director

December 3, 2019 | Final Blog by SECC GIS and Trail Maintenance Technician Interns

Kelly O’Shaughnessy and Hannah Springer

November 1, 2019 | Our very own Brenna Kelly, Corps Director of Southeast Conservation Corps, is featured in the Get Out features of the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Read more below!

Within the past three issues of Get Out, we have featured a different conservation group's newly hired executive director — and all have been women. That got us wondering, are women leading the local conservation scene? Based on our tally — yes. 

September 26, 2019 | It’s 5:36 in the morning on Wednesday, September 18th, as I peer out over my paper-thin nylon hammock strung up on the edge of camp.

September 23, 2019 |Imagine you’re lying in your tent. Safely wrapped in your cocoon of nylon tenting and sleeping bag fluff, with your head resting comfortably on your bag of clean clothes. 

August 28, 2019 | We had expectations of what working with a Boy Scouts Troop might be like, we had an idea of what working with a Girl Scouts Troop would be like, but we were both blown away and humbled by this experience.

August 26, 2019 | As the National Park Service celebrates 103 years of preserving America’s natural and cultural resources, the National Park Foundation (NPF) today announced a more than $3.5 million investment in expanding young, diverse leaders’ capacity to help protect national parks, lift up communities, and gain in-demand job skills training through service corps programs.

July 15, 2019 | During the summer of 2019 SECC fielded its first ever all-female Women’s Conservation Corps Youth Crews.