SA: There's an old expression, many hands make light work. That is the sound of a shovel moving stone and soil for a bucket brigade on a steep slope in Bear Mountain

BS: Nine inches of rain happening over a very short time span will do a number on a natural surface trail

SA: Ben Sugar with the New York New Jersey Trail Conference leading the repair work on the Appalachian Trail following last summer's devastating storm. Doing the heavy lifting, young people with the Rockland Conservation and Service Corps. So what else do they do?

KG: Working on county trails, on water quality with Lamont Dorey down at the Hudson River Field Station, educating people about trail stewardship, and water quality 

SA: Since 2001 coordinator Kathy Galione has seen many young students move on to vital work

KG: Planners to lawyers, doctors, all over the United States as well as in Europe and we have some people in New Zealand

SA: 21 year old Michael Mulvihill

MM: I'm interested in being a park ranger, hopefully a state park somewhere nice

SA: 21 year old Cira Durcan

CD: I'll be applying to PhD programs in ecology or wildlife conservation 

SA: Rockland County is one-third parkland, Galione says it is the perfect place for a young person to be in service to the environment 

KG: There's nothing you can't learn here in Rockland that they could apply other places

SA: In Bear Mountain State Park, Sean Adams WCBS 880 NewS