There aren’t many signs marking their achievements and their numbers are dwindling daily. But the work undertaken by the enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed much to California, ...

In 1933, as part of the New Deal Program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). This work program, and its military-like structure, was for single men ...

Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.

As one of the most successful programs of President Roosevelt’s New Deal, The Civilian Conservation Corps was an integral part of the American economic recovery of the 1930s. Explore the goals and ...

During the Great Depression of the 1930s, President Roosevelt’s CCC put 3 million young men to work across America. Living in camps across all 48 states (and the territories of Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto ...

When I spend time in America’s public lands, I’m never surprised to learn that something I’m seeing or using — a picnic table, a visitor center, a trail — goes back to the Great Depression and the ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and national ...

"I can get a little choked up sometimes talking about the CCC," says Tim Scott, assistant superintendent of Devil's Den State Park near Winslow. "About 60 percent of the park, as it is today, was ...

When President Roosevelt signed the Civilian Conservation Corps bill in March 1933 as part of his New Deal, he sought to protect the wealth of forests and create ways to control floods and decrease ...

The Department of Conservation and Recreation will conduct a brief memorial ceremony at 2 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 16, to honor the memory of Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who were tragically ...

NEW MARLBOROUGH — Just off Route 183, there’s a circle carved out of the trees in the Sandisfield State Forest where a stone memorial and a flagpole stand for a tragedy long since past. Ten years ago, ...

Ernest Brewer, left, and John Phillips trade stories during a Civilian Conservation Corps reunion tour of the Ninemile Ranger Station on Friday. Brewer and Phillips are among the nine men who served ...