Fighting Fires, Changing Lives: Eel River Conservation Camp

The jury describes firefighting and community-service work, living conditions and vocational opportunities at Eel River Conservation Camp after visits in November and December 2025. Its six findings are largely positive, including reported remediation of temporary overcrowding. One recommendation requests an upgrade to the slower staff internet network by July 1, 2027. Interview accounts and the jury’s rehabilitation observations are not an independent causal study of recidivism. No final response to this report is supplied.