
I propose to create to be used in complex work, not interfering with normal employment and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. Long interested in conservation, as president, Roosevelt proposed to Congress a full-scale national program on March 21, 1933: It was started in early 1932 to "use men from the lists of the unemployed to improve our existing reforestation areas." In its first year alone, more than 25,000 unemployed New Yorkers would be active in its paid conservation work. Roosevelt had run a similar program on a much smaller scale, known as the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration (TERA).
12.4 Documentary, feature and TV moviesĪs governor of New York, Franklin D. 12.1 Civilian Conservation Corps by state. 3.9 From conservation to defense, 1939–1940. Through the course of its nine years in operation, three million young men participated in the CCC, which provided them with shelter, clothing, and food, together with a wage of $30 (equivalent to $600 in 2020) per month ($25 of which had to be sent home to their families). Maximum enrollment at any one time was 300,000. The CCC was designed to provide jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression in the United States. Roosevelt's New Deal that provided manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments. The CCC was a major part of President Franklin D. Robert Fechner was the first director of this agency, succeeded by James McEntee following Fechner's death. The Civilian Conservation Corps ( CCC) was a voluntary public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28.
CCC boys leaving camp for home Lassen National Forest, California