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Cerro Coso and Mono County unveil regional outdoor recreation workforce pathway
Summary
Cerro Coso Community College and Mono County presented a new Sustainable Outdoor Recreation Leadership (SOARL) curriculum — 55 new classes across five pathways including wildland fire and forestry technician tracks — intended to train local residents for recreation, forestry and fire‑resilience jobs and reduce regional brain‑drain.
Cerro Coso Community College and Mono County officials told supervisors they have developed a regional workforce pathway designed to train and place residents into outdoor‑recreation, forestry and wildland fire jobs across the Eastern Sierra.
"What we ended up finding was things like conservation technician, forestry technician, where the seasonal firefighting fits in," Peter Fox, department chair at Cerro Coso, said, describing the four‑year effort to survey regional job needs and align curriculum with employer skills. He told the board the program includes 55 new courses…
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