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Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]
Civilian Conservation Corps poster (1935) President Franklin Roosevelt valued the CCC because it was fueled both by his passion for rural life and the philosophy of William James. [3] [4] James deemed this sort of program the "moral equivalent of war," channeling the passion for combat into productive service. [5]
A few years later, as president, Roosevelt asked Congress to set up FERA—which gave grants to the states for the same purpose—in May 1933, and appointed Hopkins to head it. Along with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), it was the first relief operation under the New Deal.
During the 1930s, the refuge hosted three Civilian Conservation Corps camps. One was located at the Sod-House Ranch south of Malheur Lake. A second camp was located at Buena Vista Station and the third was located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of Frenchglen in the P Ranch area.
The U.S. Forest Service and Civilian Conservation Corps assisted. [7] "The Shelterbelt Program of 1935–1942 ... [was] later known as the Prairie States Forestry Project." [8] By 1942, 30,233 shelterbelts had been planted, which contained 220 million trees and covered 18,600 square miles (48,000 km 2). [2]
The camp opened in 1930 as a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp during the Great Depression. Ryan Park Camp is at 8,009 feet (2,441 m) elevation in the Snowy Range of Wyoming's Rocky Mountains in the Medicine Bow National Forest on Wyoming Highway 130. Civilian Conservation Corps was supervised by the United States Forest Service. Civilian ...
In the 1930s, crews of the New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps developed the park's infrastructure, applying then-popular ideas of landscape design to create a tranquil and scenic oasis. The environment built during this time has remained well-preserved, [ 11 ] and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011.
The bulk of the historic structures date to the 1920s and 1930s. Most of the structures of the 1930s were built using Civilian Conservation Corps labor. The version of the National Park Service Rustic style that was adopted at Zion was less extreme in its rustic character than that employed at other parks.