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2005 Yearbook VERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS 2005 Yearbook Teaching individuals to take personal responsibility for all of their actions. -The VYCC Mission Board of Directors Ron Redmond, Chair Matthew Fargo, Vice Chair Rain Banbury, Secretary Contents Richard McGarry, Treasurer Eric Hanson, Past Chair Judi Manchester, Past Chair Program Overview 4 Caroline Wadhams-Bennett, Past Chair Richard Darby Project Profiles 6 David Goudy Jeffrey Hallo Season Highlights 8 Martha D. McDaniel, M.D. Franklin Motch Field Staff in Focus 10 Lee Powlus Doris Evans, Founder and Board Member Emeritus Alumni Rendezvous 12 Park Crews 15 - 19 Headquarters Staff Wilderness Crews 20 - 22 Thomas Hark, President Jocelyn Haley, Director of Administration and Finance Roving Crews 23 - 31 Polly Tobin, Director of Field Programs Kate Villa, Director of Development Community Crews 32 – 35 Bridgette Remington, Director of Communications and IT Brian Cotterill, Operations Manager Fall Leadership Crews 36 – 37 Lisa Scott, Parks - Americorps Manager Patrick Kell, Program Manager News from HQ 38 Christa Finnern, Program Coordinator John Leddy, Program Coordinator With Special Thanks 42 Heather Nielsen, Program Coordinator Jason Buss, Program Coordinator Alumni Updates 44 Jennifer Hezel, Administrative Coordinator Don Bicknell, Volunteer Extraordinaire Home of the VYCC 46 Yearbook Editor: JP Grogan Copy Editors: Kate Villa, Polly Tobin A Message from the Founding President Dear Alumni and Friends, 2005 marked the 20th anniversary celebration of the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps! We started in 1985 with nothing but passion, a dream of what might be, and a $1 appropriation from the Vermont legislature. Twenty years later, the VYCC has grown into a mature, statewide non-profit organization with a $1.8 million annual budget, 13 year-round staff, three full-time VISTA Volunteers, 22 year-round AmeriCorps Members, and an annual enrollment of over 250 people. In all, you, our alumni (4,000 strong) have given two million hours of service to Vermont! I believe that every person who wants to enroll in the VYCC should be able. Unfortunately, only one in four applicants gets that chance. In addition there is a tremendous amount of conservation work that needs to be done. How do we meet these needs? Five years ago our Board of Trustees wrestled with these very issues and came up with a bold, calculated, and dynamic solution. The answer was the renovation of the historic West Monitor Barn in Richmond. The restored barn is now our permanent headquarters and will serve as a statewide Youth Leadership, Education and Training Center. It has been exciting to watch the barn rise over the past five years, particularly with the help of more than 14 different crews who built the foundation, floors, walls, and more. It is our expectation that the number of youth annually participating will grow to 500 and beyond! You, the alumni of the VYCC, represent the best of Vermont. Your efforts create and preserve the forests, parks, and landscapes we all treasure. It is your personal leadership through the values you have developed that will guide Vermont for decades. The story of the VYCC is a classic Vermont tale of hard work, leadership, and vision, and it is by no means finished. You are a part of this story…an important part. It is because of you that this amazing story continues and grows with each passing year. Thank you! Make no mistake, there is a lot of work ahead of us. Your strong support is absolutely crucial if we are to continue to make a difference. Think about the contribution you would like to make to become an on-going member of the Corps; think about joining the statewide Alumni Board or volunteering at the new headquarters; and certainly plan to attend the second annual Alumni Rendezvous on Columbus Day Weekend 2006! Please stop by and say hello in the meantime. Cheers! Thomas Hark President [email protected] Program Overview What is the VYCC? The VYCC is a non-profit service, conservation, and education organization. Our mission Crew Types is to teach individuals to take personal responsibility for all of their actions. We accomplish this mission by forming small Roving Crews teams of young people who work with Roving Crews camp for four-week sessions excellent adult leaders to complete high- and live full-time in the outdoors. Corps priority conservation projects. The challenges Members learn new skills such as watershed and experiences each crew must overcome to restoration, trail be successful create an ideal setting to develop construction, leadership, teamwork, and communication and bridge skills. Each year, the Corps hires young people construction, as between the ages of 16 and 24 to manage state well as see many parks, build trails, restore rivers and streams, different areas of and improve community greenspaces. Vermont. Often they will camp Philosophy for the first two The philosophy of the VYCC is simple and weeks in a state powerful. As VYCC President Thomas park and then Hark tells staff in training: “Our goal is for camp for the the program to ‘ooze’ with education.” The next two weeks conservation projects completed by the VYCC in a backcountry crews are important, and like the original location where Civilian Conservation Corps projects, will last they will learn for decades. However, these projects are also to filter their the vehicles used to accomplish our mission. own water and live without electricity. Roving Crews complete History projects for state and federal agencies, as well as local community sponsors. Since 1985 the VYCC has provided young people from every county, and nearly every town in Vermont, the opportunity to gain Community Crews valuable natural resource training and On a VYCC Community Crew, Corps Members education. The VYCC has completed several live at home and work as a team to improve million dollars worth of priority conservation alternative transportation routes, such as bike work in Vermont through partnerships and pedestrian paths, and to enhance local with agencies and organizations such as the natural areas. They may also learn innovative Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & bio-engineering techniques in order to restore Recreation, Vermont Agency of Transportation, rivers and streams which have been adversely Natural Resources Conservation Service, affected by erosion and pollution. These Vermont Department of Environmental crews are made possible through a variety Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, of partnerships with federal, state, and local Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest project sponsors and offer Corps Members Service, National Park Service, and Vermont’s an opportunity to improve and care for the Green Mountain Club. resources in their local communities. Program Overview Park Crews Through a unique partnership with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation (FPR), the Park Crews offer Corps Members the opportunity to work with the public in recreation and park management. The VYCC currently operates five Vermont State Parks. Crews are responsible for all aspects of the parks including managing the camping reservation system, registering park visitors, maintaining and improving the grounds and facilities, and managing concession sales. The Corps Members also develop and lead educational and recreational activities for park visitors such as nature hikes, children’s activities, and Saturday night campfires. Through this process, Fall Leadership Crews Corps Members gain valuable business, For the first time, the VYCC offered members communication, and park management skills the opportunity to extend their leadership as they operate some of Vermont’s largest state experience in Fall 2005. Fall Leadership Crews parks efficiently and professionally. were composed entirely of Crew Leaders and Park Assistants who had successfully completed the summer season. They worked as residential Wilderness Crews crews comprised of five or six members who For those Corps Members who seek an continued the program for four weeks after the exceptionally challenging experience, regular summer season ended. The goal behind Wilderness Crews are available. Wilderness the program is to further leadership abilities, Corps Members live and work in the create more opportunities for technical training, backcountry for four weeks at a time. reflect upon the past season, and to continue the They become self-reliant while learning professional growth of our leaders. the importance of teamwork with other members of the crew. Without running water, electricity, or other amenities, the crew must work together to make the woods a home. Wilderness Crew projects typically include trail maintenance and backcountry construction of bridges and lean-tos. Project Profiles Burton Island and Knight Island In 2005 the VYCC and Vermont Department of Forests, Parks & Recreation partnered to field multiple crews including Wilderness Crew 2, which spent four weeks working and living on Burton and Knight Islands in Lake Champlain. During this time the crew, led by Mary Zentara and Caleb Butler, completed a number of high-priority projects on the islands. After moving all of their tools and gear from shore via a shuttle boat, the crew set up camp and got to work. During their two weeks on Burton Island the crew constructed 250 feet of puncheon bridges on the Eagle’s Bay Trail and one 12 foot bridge on the West Shore Trail to protect resources and enhance the hiker’s experience. The crew also helped improve facilities on the island by building three composting outhouses at paddler’s campsites around the island. After the crew moved to Knight Island they built 210 feet of boardwalk, including two 75 foot-long sections to keep the trail out of a wet area near a beaver pond. “It is so awesome to be outdoors and live with the same people for four weeks. It’s a really incredible thing we created. The beaver dam bridge was our best project by far. I really liked carrying lumber, digging for sills, and nailing - all that hard physical work!” said Corps Member Jessica Huyghebaert.
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