Forest Corps
A new seasonal initiative designed to help fill critical gaps.
Katherine Ergil
Kat Ergil grew up a couple of hours from the Adirondacks—a wilderness mountain range in upstate New York—but she was 18 before she visited them. “I lived near a lake…
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Jillian Greene
Jillian Greene’s grandparents lived next to the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in Montana. “I lived in Kentucky, but would visit them every summer when I was younger,” she says. In 2022,…
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Sage Abate
Sage Abate was fortunate to grow up in Winthrop, Washington, a town in the Methow Valley, which, like many of the communities in western Wyoming, is surrounded by public lands….
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Elly McFarland
From Anacortes, Washington, Elly McFarland first came to trail work in 2020. That summer, following her freshman year of college, she did AmeriCorps. “I’ve been doing trail work every summer…
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Monica Elliott
“The outdoors have given me so much,” says Monica Elliott, the team leader of FBT’s 2025 Forest Corps. “It’s great to be able to give back to it as part…
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