civilian conservation corps (u.s.)

"In Depression-era northern Michigan, a young boy meets a teenager serving in the Civilian Conservation Corps, the work relief program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to employ millions of young men during the Great Depression"--Provided by publisher.

Collects anecdotes from veteran members of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota in which they recount their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, establishing state parks, and performing other related efforts during the Great Depression.

"Joseph McCoy plans a secret project to help save an all-black Civilian Conservation Corps camp from being forced out of town in 1935 Elsinore, California"--Provided by publisher.

"When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men were building parks and reclaiming the nation's forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps--FDR's favorite program and 'miracle of inter-agency cooperation'--resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state and national parks, the restoration of nearly 120 million acres of land, and the planting of some three billion trees--more than half of all the trees ever planted in the United States. Fighting for the Forest tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC's first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt's Tree Army"--From the publisher's web site.

As they plant trees and do other environmental projects for the Civilian Conservation Corps, Russian immigrants Pavel and Anatoly are happy to find employment during the Great Depression, but when other workers accuse them of not being "real Americans," Pavel and Anatoly learn the words to the Star Spangled Banner, newly designated by Congress as the national anthem.

Presents a history of the public works program called the Civilian Conservation Corp, including how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they did. The text also explains how the camps and work sites were run, how enrollees spent their leisure time, and how the second World War brought the end of the program, and how it gave birth to contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.

Archival photographs and text describe the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps in Letchworth State Park in New York.

Looks at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's role as the founder of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC).