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Contact: Christopher Derman, 423-569-9778
Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area is hosting the Southeast Conservation Corps (SCC) Veterans Fire Crew during the 2025 Spring fire season. The SCC, a program of Conservation Legacy, provides members with impactful opportunities through a unique set of programs that engage people in meaningful education and service to their communities and natural landscapes. During the season, the seven-person all-veteran crew from the U.S. Army and Navy gained on-the-job training in hazardous fuel reduction and prescribed burn operations, as well as gaining various certifications in wildland firefighting.
The SCC crew has completed projects around the Big South Fork area, such as creating defensible space around buildings and historic landscapes, removing hazardous trees along park roads, and prescribed burn unit preparation and implementation.
ABOUT SOUTHEAST CONSERVATION CORPS
Southeast Conservation Corps operates a variety of conservation service programs throughout the Southeast that focus on empowering youth and adults to cultivate compassion, responsibility and life skills through community service, hard work and land stewardship.
ABOUT CONSERVATION LEGACY
Conservation Legacy provides support for local conservation service programs under the leadership of a national organization, delivering high quality programming in communities across the country to produce enduring impact through local action. Working in close collaboration with partners across the country, Conservation Legacy advances goals of increasing opportunities in conservation, stewardship, national service and workforce development.
Last updated: March 25, 2025