Here’s another way DNR gets its work done more efficiently and stretches scarce dollars in the budget. Working jointly with the Department of Corrections and Juvenile Rehabilitation Administration, DNR has a trained inmate workforce for forestry-related public projects around the state. This workforce, which has worked on various projects, saves taxpayer dollars while teaching positive work habits to incarcerated felons.
The establishment of honor camps and use of inmates for these type of public programs was authorized by the Legislature in 1939. The program helps avoid inmate idleness while providing cost-effective work on state and other public lands. And the crews make possible many projects that would not have been affordable, such as planting a few thousand trees to restore habitat.
Correctional Crews provide cost-efficient services delivered safely, efficiently and effectively. Each 10-person crew is fully trained, equipped, insured and supervised by a DNR Forest Crew Supervisor who has extensive fire, forestry and inmate crew supervision experience.
Camp crews perform a variety of projects including noxious weed removal, tree planting, natural area restoration and maintenance, habitat restoration and enhancement, trail construction and maintenance, etc.
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