The Civilian Conservation Corps, envisioned by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as part of his New Deal, was designed to ...

“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 ...

Biden launched the American Climate Corps to create jobs and address the climate crisis. The program is similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era work relief plan by FDR. The CCC ...

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 legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps shows how caring for the land can also restore purpose, resiliency, and hope in ...

On April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) with Executive Order 6101.

BRIMFIELD — The Civilian Conservation Corps employed 99,500 unskilled Massachusetts men throughout the Great Depression, leaving a legacy of forests, trails, campgrounds, and clean water and green ...

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, ...

More than 2,000 Native families in Minnesota benefited from the wages as participants developed work skills and communities gained infrastructure like roads and wells. MinnPost’s journalists are out ...