20,000 young people to be hired for summer work on public lands

More than 20,000 young people ages 15 to 25 have a chance for summer work in national forests, national parks, wildlife refuges and other public lands, it was announced Friday. In California, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, attended an event in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to kick off the summer work season...more