"Gentlemen, everybody grab a tool," Brother Yu-suf Burgess instructs the 15 teenagers gathered in a semicircle around him. We're standing in the parking lot of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. It's the first Saturday in April, a warm harbinger of spring's renewal after a long, dreary winter in New York's capital. Some of the young recruits wear yellow T-shirts with ALBANY BOYS OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP TEAM emblazoned across the front.
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