Oregon’s Congressional Democrats Propose Leveraging Federal Job Corps to Train More Firefighters • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Oregon’s Congressional Democrats propose leveraging federal Job Corps to train more firefighters • Oregon Capital Chronicle

Students from the Great Onyx Civilian Conservation Center in Kentucky learn wildland firefighting lessons in the Daniel Boone National Forest. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service) To combat chronic and growing shortages of wildland firefighters, Oregon’s Congressional Democrats propose leveraging an existing federal jobs program to boost the workforce needed. The Civilian Conservation Center Enhancement Act would direct the U.S. Forest Se…