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Alternative Spring Break 2012

The Mohave Desert and the Everglades are not your typical destinations for spring break. Neither are the students who want to go there. For the fifth consecutive year, SCA and American Eagle Outfitters have teamed up to provide eco-conscious spring breakers with the ultimate week-long educational and work experience. During the month of March, 120 college students from around the country will descend on two of our most environmentally challenged and imperiled habitats for an expense-paid week of hands-on conservation at the Everglades and Joshua Tree National Parks.

Students will help rid the parks of destructive invasive plants, repair eroded hiking trails, assess wildlife health, and more. And while they aid threatened ecosystems, the students will gain new skills, environmental knowledge, and leadership capabilities. According to the National Park Service, more than half the Everglades have disappeared over the past century as water is diverted from natural wetlands. Development, air pollution and exotic plants pose substantial hazard to the Joshua Tree, which grows only in the American southwest.

Follow these future conservation leaders and get inspired!