Conservation corps

DCR's Virginia State Parks Youth Conservation Corps engages Virginia's young people in important conservation and park projects on public lands while providing learning that fosters teamwork, self-esteem, social responsibility and respect for the environment.

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Conservation Corps Programs - Forest Preserves of Cook County

The history of the CCC in Colorado has a very personal feeling for me because it was in Colorado that my grandfather worked as a U.S. Forest Service foreman for the CCC at places like Waunita Hot Spring, Norwood, Delta, Gardner, Idaho Springs, San Isabel and Monument. It was an interest in learning more about grandpa’s work that led me to an interest in the larger history of the CCC. So, when I quote Perry Merrill’s statistics regarding the work of the CCC in Colorado, there is a good degree…

Montana Conservation Corps at Yellowstone National Park

Youth Programs

SPENCER — Imagine for the next seven weeks you are thrown together with nine other people from various parts of the country. You eat every meal together, sleep in the same rudimentary accommodations and have little contact with the outside world. Your isolated workdays are eight hours of hard labor, wearing helmets and wielding tools […]

In the 1930s the CCC employed millions of young men. They planted a billion trees, fought wildfires, restored cropland, and were on the scene following hurricanes and floods.

Grandfathers on both sides were part of this.

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Youth Programs

National Park Service, Youth Conservation Corps, Wilsons Creek NPS.

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