After six weeks of work, an 11-member team of AmeriCorps workers has finished preparing Camp Sealth for the summer camping season.

Team Silver Three left the camp with new floors in three cabins, new wooden railings on some of the camp’s main buildings, 12 new hammock posts at the shoreline for older campers, new log benches and plenty of freshly cleared trails.

“We did a ton of trail restoration,” the team’s media representative, Kelsey Stoneberger, said last week. “There was a mudslide just before we got here, so there was plenty to do there.”

The camp has been using AmeriCorps labor for more than a decade, Camp Sealth Facilities Manager Steve Lomax said.

“We’ve been very fortunate to get a team every year for the past 15 years,” he said.

Any local or national organization can apply to have an AmeriCorps team help it complete a project. Chosen entities are awarded grants from AmeriCorps. Each of these organizations or agencies, in turn, uses the AmeriCorps funding to recruit, place and supervise AmeriCorps members nationwide.

Nik Holder, a member of Team Silver Three who is from Maryland, said the team’s goal was to “make the camp be the best experience possible for the youth that participate every year.”

Camp Sealth was the third project of the team’s four. AmeriCorps members serve 10 months and then graduate from the program, and Team Silver Three began their 10-month commitment in October. They started in California, building homes with Habitat for Humanity. Then they went to Santa Cruz, California, to do environmental restoration work at an estuary.

They left Camp Sealth Monday and will head to their campus in Sacramento, where they will stay briefly before heading out to their last project in Carson City, Nevada.

Stoneberger, who is from West Virginia, expressed some sadness about the end of the team’s time together.

“At the end of 10 months, we go to a graduation week and have 10 days to wrap it all up and say goodbye to everyone. It’s been a very productive 10 months,” she said.