In today's Wisconsin Conservation Corps, young adults gain job skills, life experience and a sense of belonging. Don Hammes Making fish cribs.
WCC crews make hundreds of cribs each year to provide cover and habitat for young fish.
Harpold s day begins with a visit to Parfrey s Glen, but it s not the relaxing stroll that you or I might take through the picturesque state natural area near Devil s Lake. The trail lies in a fragile, rare slice of nature, but the work is anything but delicate. The violent flash floods had pushed aside sections of the boardwalk his crew had constructed. After clearing the paths and pulling out the debris by hand, Harpold and crew bring in new lumber, realign and re-anchor railroad ties to shore up the trail. Trained young men and women use chain saws to cut through a large fallen tree trunk pinning one section of boardwalk against a rock.