21CSC programs engage in a wide variety of projects across America.
The following list encompasses the work that 21CSC participants can perform.

Enhance Recreation on Public Lands by:

• Constructing, maintaining and designing sustainable trails
• Building, restoring and painting cabins and structures
• Constructing and repairing stone and log retaining walls, bridges, water bars and erosion control measures
• Installing signage and interpretive stations
• Building, restoring, and maintaining campgrounds and other recreational facilities
• Surveying trails and recreational facilities for ADA compliance
• Conducting visitor use surveys
• GIS mapping
• Monitoring visitor safety and risk management
• Maintaining and restoring road corridors including tree/brush/rock removal and re-vegetation

Protect Wildlife and/or Restore Public Lands (Ecological Restoration) by:

• Decommissioning old trails and roads
• Installing and maintaining irrigation systems
• Performing erosion control measures, including soil and shoreline stabilization
• Preserving and restoring stream bank and riparian habitat
• Preserving and restoring wetlands, prairies and savannahs
• Inventorying and removing invasive weeds and other species; applying herbicide with certified/trained participants
• Installing and/or removing fencing
• Constructing wildlife openings, food plantings and cover patches
• Building nesting boxes and platforms, fishing piers, boat docks and fish cribs
• Conducting population studies and GIS inventories
• Monitoring cultural resources
• Conducting boundary surveys 

Protect Communities and Public Lands from the Devastating Effects of Wildfire by:

• Implementing controlled burns
• Removing hazardous fuels
• Implementing timber stand improvement projects
• Constructing fire breaks
• Responding with initial attack fire crews
• Providing fire camp support

Prepare Communities for Disasters and Respond when Needed by:

• Stabilizing mud slides and protecting levees
• Undertaking erosion and flood control
• Supporting – and, at times, providing – fire crews
• Removing debris and hazardous trees
• Blue tarping damaged roofs
• Mucking and gutting water-damaged structures

Save Energy and Promote Energy Independence by:

• Weatherizing homes and structures
• Re-lamping facilities
• Conducting energy audits
• Installing insulation, sealing air flow and replacing windows
• Installing solar panels

Preserve Historic Structures by:

• Renovating historical buildings and sites
• Preserving artifacts
• Stabilizing foundations
• Masonry, repointing
• Stabilizing pre-historic sites
• Constructing interpretive displays
• Decommissioning outdated structures

Enhance Neighborhoods and Community Public Spaces by:

• Constructing and maintaining community/neighborhood gardens
• Landscaping public spaces
• Planting grasses, trees, seedlings, and shrubs; collecting seeds
• Maintaining and removing trees and shrubs
• Building, restoring, and maintaining playgrounds
• Removing litter and graffiti
• Installing recycling containers and administering recycling programs
• Building and maintaining bike and walking paths, both hard and soft surface, including trails that meet ADA standards
• Cleaning and restoring abandoned lots
• Installing rainwater collection systems
• Constructing, maintaining and improving park shelters, kiosks, cabins, etc.
• Installing signage

Engage, Connect and Education Americans in and about the Outdoors by:

• Mobilizing and engaging volunteers in projects that benefit public and tribal lands and waters
• Developing, coordinating, and supervising hands-on large and small scope service projects for volunteers and other volunteer events
• Conducting interpretation and visitor service activities on public or tribal lands and waters
• Designing and distributing environmental/conservation education materials
• Providing education, training and outreach to the public
• Engaging volunteers, seniors, younger youth and others in service learning activities

To hire a 21CSC Crew, click the button below and search for a program in your area.