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On the heels of the
"Roaring
Twenties" and following the market crash of 1929, the Great Depression
engulfed The purpose of this
CCC program was
to put unemployed young men to work in useful, needed conservation
projects
around the country. The plan was swiftly put in motion.
Within 3
months, over 275,000 enrollees and supervisors were signed up across
the nation
and began work on critical conservation projects planned by foresters,
or, as
the case might have been, park service rangers, soil conservationists
and
extension educators. In the 9 years from
1933 until the
CCC program phase-out in 1942, there were over 3 million enrollees and
more
than 1,600 camps throughout the country. Many CCC projects
included
fire-fighting, tree-planting, road-building, development of parks,
forests and
erosion control of farm land...Conservation projects quite evident, as
we
travel the land, today. The good works of the CCC in one state
could be
mirrored by the many achievements of the CCC in any state. The late The
book Written on the Land takes a close look at what the
CCC program
did for West Virginia and what legacies her "Boys" left...on the
landscape; lasting conservation hallmarks written on the land. Preface - Written on the Land by Robert E. Anderson |
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