Apprenticeship Program Aims To Help California's Struggling Logging Industry

APR 2, 202511 MIN
KQED's The California Report

Apprenticeship Program Aims To Help California's Struggling Logging Industry

APR 2, 202511 MIN

Description

California's logging industry has been shrinking for years, with an aging workforce and fewer young people entering the trade. But in Northern California, a community college is stepping in to change that, helping to train the next generation of loggers through an innovative apprenticeship program.


Guest: Kate Rix, The Hechinger Report


The California snowpack is close to 100 percent for the third year in a row. That hasn’t happened in three consecutive years since the late 1990s.


Reporter: Ezra David Romero, KQED

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