This project engages youth in protecting and restoring public lands through resource protection and management activities

Participants will accomplish meaningful work and gain important personal and professional skills while building a lifeline connection to the outdoors. Participants will gain training and education in activities that help to protect resources and improve visitor experiences. Participants will be mentored on improving the visitor camping experience by improving campground amenities, and rehabilitating the natural landscape within the parks two developed campgrounds.participants will receive training and education focused on resource protection and management through assembly and distribution of new picnic tables to campsites at both developed campgrounds, removal of old picnic tables from campsites and staging them for disposal, obliterating and rehabilitating unofficial trails associated with campsites once trail access is closed, rehabilitation of unofficial campsites within both campgrounds, and completing minor regrading and erosion mitigation to maintain native vegetation integrity around campsites. This project fulfills an important public purpose by engaging and motivating youth participants in shared resource stewardship, providing them with direct hands-on work experience in resource projects, and facilitating a greater understanding of natural and recreational aspects of conservation and recreation areas. Participants will gain important skills and experience through improving and protecting key areas of the park. The NPS receives the indirect benefit of completing conservation projects. In addition, this project engages recipients, partners, communities, and or visitors in shared environmental stewardship.