"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 ...

Few federal government programs today are viewed as efficient and popular, with long-lasting effects. The Civilian Conservation Corps, the enormously successful Depression-era program of Franklin D.

HARTFORD, Conn. — An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps. It was the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. But the American Climate Corps really has a whole lot in common with the CCC.

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 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 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid amateur woodskeeper. "Squire Roosevelt began to reforest his mother's lands (at Hyde Park, N.Y.) as long ago as 1915," Time magazine reported in 1939, "when he was ...

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 ...