BLM Idaho Youth News Team 

STORIES: A Day in the Boise Foothills

Youth News Team Discovers and Shares the Stories Happening in BLM The BLM Youth News Team is a partnership program between BLM and Capital High School. The Youth News Team includes a group of aspiring photography and journalism students. The students work as volunteers and earn class credit, photographing and reporting on stories important to the management of the nation’s public lands. Through their work, they educate other youth and themselves on public land opportunities and challenges, as well as numerous associated public policy issues; public policy that they will one day help decide as adults. While exploring the natural world around them, they will also learn about federal career opportunities, how federal bureaucracies work, how public policy is formed, and what resources, services and values public lands provide. For their class credit, the students learn about journalistic reporting, photography, ethics, and business practices as they create their own news stories.