{"id":413602,"date":"2024-09-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=413602"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Making-a-difference-in-Guam-and-CNMI","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Making-a-difference-in-Guam-and-CNMI\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a difference in Guam and CNMI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a partnership among the National Park Service, AmeriCorps, and the Kupu \u02bb\u0100ina Corps, a conservation nonprofit in Hawaii, five young adult residents of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are working on wildfire recovery and climate change-related resilience projects in parks in those two U.S. territories.<\/p>\n<p>Those five Pacific Islands Conservation Corps interns help remove fire-prone invasive plant species and restore lands with fire-resistant native species. And they perform other duties that beautify and fortify park lands and waters, too. Simultaneously, the interns, whose terms last one year, receive career development training, career guidance, and hands-on experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference it\u2019s making for these program participants to be able to help their families while they are also developing themselves is significant,\u201d said Ernestine White, the NPS lead for the program. \u201cNot only are we helping the [natural and cultural] resources there, but we\u2019re also helping the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pacific Islands Conservation Corps is one of five youth and young adult programs supported by the Inflation Reduction Act that help fortify NPS sites in the face of a changing climate. The other four are the Community Volunteer Ambassador Climate Cohort, Scientists in Parks, the YMCA Partnership, and the Landscape Stewardship Corps. <em><strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/eb015c6fbe67bec989e6c56134bd5926.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Pacific Islands Conservation Corps intern Isaiah Joel Torre collects mangrove propagules (seedlings) at American Memorial Park in the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>-NPS<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/bf1b1b297003831f5edec3f3ab6d16d2.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Isaiah Joel Torre cleans up a beach at American Memorial Park in the Northern Mariana Islands.<\/p>\n<p>-NPS<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a partnership among the National Park Service, AmeriCorps, and the Kupu \u02bb\u0100ina Corps, a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}