CHEROKEE, NC ( WLOS ) -- Federal and local partners are joining together this week near Cherokee as Oconaluftee Job Corps students are helping restore some historic structures at the entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The students, enrolled in Southwestern Community College’s top-ranked forestry program, are doing restoration work at the historic Mountain Farm Museum, located at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

“I think it’s a good experience... Job Corps has a lot of different resources, but if you’re a person who likes to be outside, likes to be in nature, forestry or wildland firefighting is a good way to go. But also, you know if you want to go outside of your comfort zone and experience different things, I think it will definitely get you out there," Sha’Kera Fly

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