Podskoch’s book describes the history and projects of the 21 camps located throughout the state. These interviews and hundreds of marvelous photos of camp life capture the vitality of the young men who worked so hard to improve our forests, which had been ravaged by fires, lumbering, and storms. These young men worked in 21 Connecticut CCC camps, while some traveled to Western states to do conservation projects. In nine years, 2.5 million young men participated in restoring morale and public appreciation of the outdoors. Volunteers planted nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed more than 800 parks nationwide, updated forest fire fighting methods, and built a network of service buildings and public roadways. It targeted young men and veterans in relief families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression, providing unskilled manual labor related to environmental conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands. The CCC was a public works program that operated from 1933 to 1942, as part of Pres.
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