On Sept. 9, Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri State Parks Youth Corps (SPYC) were recognized with the 2010 President’s Award from the National Association of State Park Directors (NASPD) at the association’s annual meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The award honors extraordinary contributions at the state level to furthering the goal of a system of state parks. In recognizing SPYC, the NAPSD called the program “a workforce for [Missouri’s] state parks and historic sites unprecedented since work by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s.”
A new overview of SPYC program accomplishments is available on YouTube. “The young people who made the State Parks Youth Corps a success have helped preserve Missouri’s natural and cultural history, and they’ll be our state’s conservation leaders in the future,” Gov. Nixon said.