Civilian Conservation Corps
New Deal labor
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a U.S. government work relief program during the Great Depression (1933–1942), employing young men in conservation projects on public lands—planting trees, building trails, fighting fires, and constructing park facilities.
Often called the CCC, it combined unemployment relief with environmental improvement.
Many national and state park structures date from CCC work.
- New DealDepression-era reform agenda
- enrolleesThose officially signed up
- Great Depression1930s global economic crisis
- young menMales in early adulthood
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
Franklin D. Roosevelt · work camps · National Parks · state parks · public works · forestry · sapling · Tennessee Valley Authority · tree planting · trail · fire roads · soil erosion · brush · TVA · job training · log · saw · timber
- conservationwildlife, endangered, habitat, sanctuary, preservation
- Defunct OrganizationsLeague of Nations, Warsaw Pact, Pan Am, TWA, Enron
- Northwoods heritagelogging camps, lumberjacks, sawmills, lumber camps, timber industry
Civilian Conservation Corpsmilitary service
Duty in armed forces
U.S. Army · armed forces · conscription · National Guard · Marine Corps
Civilian Conservation Corpsprivate enterprise
Individually owned business operation
laissez-faire economics · Wall Street · industrial capitalism
Civilian Conservation Corpsstrip mining
Removing overburden for minerals
clear-cutting · deforestation · logging industry · resource extraction · environmental degradation