The California Conservation Corps, started in 1976 by then-Gov. Jerry Brown, has a current roster of 1,634 members, mostly between the ages of 18 and 29, who typically serve for about a year.

The CCC is America’s oldest and largest conservation corps. At any one time around 1,400 members, aged 18-25 (up to 29 for military vets), are working in paid environmental and community service ...

California’s Proposition 39, which awarded $1.7 billion for clean energy and efficiency upgrades in California schools, proved to be a source of funds to establish an Energy Corps within the CCC ...

History: The California Conservation Corps was founded in 1976 by Gov. Jerry Brown, who modeled it after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's youth work program, the Civilian Conservation Corps.

ESCC crew lead Marta Cigalla led an all-trans trail crew in the deep Trump country of Klamath National Forest last summer, ...

"For over three decades, the California Conservation Corps has offered job training to thousands of once aimless young men and women and then put them to work planting forests, building trails and ...

Decades later, California Gov. Jerry Brown used a similar model when he launched the California Conservation Corps while serving his first two terms in the 1970s and 1980s.

The California Conservation Corps helped give him direction. Hinojos is one of the estimated 3,600 young men and women who have worked on fires, floods, earthquakes and other projects for the ...

The crews who will protect your homes from flooding this winter visited the delta -- to demonstrate how they'll respond to floods, especially if the promise of El Niño brings continued rain.

The California Conservation Corps recruits young adults from 18 to 25 years of age, to work for the state, doing everything from energy audits to trail building and fire fighting.

Another Civilian Conservation Corps? It's needed in fire-ravaged California. The CCC proposed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 became one of the most popular programs in the New Deal.