Wyoming Conservation Corps protects resources and changes lives. It’s worth fighting for.

Wyoming Conservation Corps protects resources and changes lives. It’s worth fighting for.

It’s August 2015, and I am in the Red Desert on a job site with my Wyoming Conservation Corps crew. We are helping put up barbed wire fences around “hummocks,” curious turtle-shaped protrusions of ground left behind after cattle scar up the land. The work was hard and so were the sleeping conditions. We camped in a bowl and would wake to sub-freezing temperatures in the middle of summer. Worth it to be in the midst of a vast sage expanse with bl…