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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Cream City Conservation Corps Spends Two Weeks Working & Learning in the Northwoods
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:54
	Publish Date:		2021-07-22 10:59:00
	Description:		Ryder Fox pushes a wheelbarrow full of gravel down a path through the Argonne Experimental Forest near Hiles. He dumps it into a frame where his fellow conservation crewmembers are waiting to pound it down, adding to the interpretive trail. The 15-year-old from Milwaukee is part of the Cream City Conservation Corps. All summer they’ve been working on conservation work in the city, but for two weeks they’re visiting the Northwoods to see what conservation work looks like in rural areas compared to urban. This experience has been a mixed bag. “I just gotta say this is better than yesterday, except for the bugs,” said Fox. For many of the crew members, this is there first time out in this kind of forest setting. The crew is working in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest through the Urban Connections program. The program allows the Forest Service to partner with different urban organizations. Like Fox, the bugs were hard to get over for 14-year-old Messiah Hart. “It’s not fun, the
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