PINE MOUNTAIN - Eleven AmeriCorps workers are refurbishing more than 25 miles of horseback riding trails in Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park, lopping off tree limbs and widening sections of trail along Pine Mountain Ridge. <br>
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It is work that rangers at the 10,000-acre park do not have time to do, senior ranger Ricky Hood said. <br>
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``They've done in two weeks what it would have taken us a year to do. We'd love to have them for six months,'' Hood said. <br>
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AmeriCorps joins people with varying backgrounds to work as a team for 10 months. Members of this team, which is on a three-week assignment at the park, are from seven states from California to New Hampshire, team leader Nick Laughton said. <br>
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Corps members work 1,700 hours to earn a $4,725 education award to pay for college or vocational education classes or to pay off student loans. <br>
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Before coming to the state park, the group used hand tools to build three houses in six weeks in Gainesville, Fla.
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