With temperatures hovering around 85 degrees at midday last Friday, young people worked outside at national park sites in the nation’s capital, pulling invasive weeds in Rock Creek Park and staking trees on Daingerfield Island.
Gracie Billingsley, a rising sophomore at Northern Virginia Community College, painted stanchions, spread mulch around plants and picked up trash at the 7½-acre Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial on the National Mall.
It was part of a national day of service led by the Corps Network, a network of about 120 conservation corps across the nation that together marshal 23,000 young people a year.
[For more of this story, written by Stell Simonton, go to http://jjie.org/the-corps-netw...e-new-skills/108923/]
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