KAMIAH, Idaho – High School students helped US Forest Service staff collect data on abandoned mines in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests.
According to the Forest Service, students from the Clearwater Basin Youth Conservation Corps helped test a new system that registers information on abandoned mines from July 10 to 12.
“This year, the Forests, with the help of two Geocorps interns, Madeleine Festin and Olivia Hoffman, began an initiative to learn what lies beneath the forests and the potential risks and hazards they pose to the public that enjoys the forests,” the forest service said in a media statement.
The High School students helped test the system and found that it was effective, meaning that it will be used to monitor former mines in the future.
