Field Crew and Youth Corps Crew Leaders/Members, Summer Youth Corps Crew Leaders, Field Specialists and Individual Placements
Northeast Minnesota (Grand Rapids, Tower, Moose Lake, Gooseberry Falls State Park, Tofte), Northwest Minnesota (Brainerd, Bemidji, Fergus Falls); Central Minnesota (St. Paul, Hanover, Shakopee); Southern Minnesota Region (Mankato, Rochester, Kilen Woods State Park, Camden State Park, Big Stone National Wildlife Refuge); and in Iowa (Ames). The region is known for its spectacular wilderness: thousands of lakes, the beautiful north shore of Lake Superior, National Forest lands, and environmental policies that support land conservation.
Spend a season or year outdoors conserving natural resources, gain field experience, and make a difference!Conservation Corps provides youth and young adults practical and professional experience, career training, a stable income, and an opportunity to pay for educational expenses. All of this while being outside in the beautiful states of Minnesota and Iowa.
Benefits include a living stipend ranging from $2,200-$2,600/month depending on position, health insurance, student loan forbearance during the service term, a post-service AmeriCorps education award, and the opportunity to explore career options. If you are highly motivated, a committed individual, passionate about habitat restoration and the outdoors, and want to work on a team of peers, build trails, learn how to manage wildfires or lead youth in conservation work, explore current job openings, position descriptions, dates of employment, application deadlines, and sign up to receive monthly Corps updates.
2025 Crew Job Openings! • Conservation Corps has kicked off their biggest round of hiring of the year—offering hundreds of full-time AmeriCorps Crew Member, Leader & Field Specialist positions beginning in January/February with work through November/December.
Why serve outdoors with Conservation Corps MN & IA? Check out with these Members had to say about their experience.
