A crew of Native American youth has spent the summer helping on a preservation project at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.
The project is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's HOPE initiative, or Hands-On Preservation Experience.
The trust teamed up with the National Park Service and the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps. The goal was to train more young people in preservation skills while helping historical sites on public land. From New Mexico and Arizona to Virginia and Vermont, crews worked on some 30 projects this summer.
At Bandelier, the work has taken on a greater significance because the teens have been restoring structures that were built by their ancestors centuries ago.
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