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Article: YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS SWEATS IT OUT IN WILD.(VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2002
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Byline: JANET YARBROUGH MEYER CORRESPONDENT
PRINCESS ANNE Kyle Barbour remembers serving in the Youth Conservation Corps back in the '70s.
As a ninth-grader, he spent eight weeks living in a tent in Colorado's Rocky Mountains high country working for the U.S. Forest Service.
"At the end of every week," remembered Barbour, 42, "we were pretty ripe, but it was a great experience."
Now, as park manager at False Cape State Park, he is witnessing a revitalization of the program, an offshoot of the Depression-era Civilian Conservation Corps started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The original program was responsible for creating the ...