They worked for $1 a day, and most were glad to get it. A new exhibit at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps — a New Deal-era program that ...

The Department of Agriculture creates a separate division of forestry to address management policies of the nation’s forests. President Benjamin Harrison, Courtesy: Bureau of Printing and Engraving ...

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 practically every case, Delaware boys are enjoying the camp life and have so expressed themselves to their commanding officers,” the Milford Chronicle reported on Sept. 15, 1933. At the time, 453 ...

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 ...

Young fisherman Johnny Fitzmorris, 11, casts his line into Lake Pontchartrain at Fontainebleau State Park Friday. Fontainebleau State Park near Mandeville is turning 75, and they are honoring the ...

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.

On a Thursday morning in late May of 1934, Washington State Parks Superintendent William G. Weigle drove from his Seattle office to Millersylvania State Park in Thurston County, about 14 miles south ...

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 ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — Chippewa River District Library is hosting a special presentation of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Michigan. The presentation is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sept. 12 at the Veterans ...