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Turning Environmental Care Into Careers in Conservation. ENERGIZED by Edison, August 17, 2026. By Lisa Aubry.
"Our job is to get our teams a better job," said Derek Poultney, executive director of The C.R.E.W. "If they leave us, we see that as a success."
On the work itself, supervisor Reid Austin: "It's not glamorous work, but it's the kind that has to get done."
Why we're sharing it
Reid Austin spent two years as a crew supervisor pulling mustard, fennel and thistle in the Upper San Antonio Creek watershed and hauling lead fragments out of old shooting sites in the Los Padres National Forest with Los Padres ForestWatch. He left us this summer for a full-time land steward position at the Ventura Land Trust. Edison International, which funds our work through the Environmental Workforce Collaborative, wrote it up. We could not have written a better job description for the program.
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