civilian conservation corps
A Young Man's Opportunity
Join The CCC To Make America Great For Me And You
This is great for unmarried young men , that want to help conserve natural resources
Men ages 18-23
The Men It The CCC Helped Conserve National Resources By ..........
- replanted trees
- Fixed the soil that caused the Dust Bowl
- get crops replanted after Dust Bowl
- reserve forests and parks
- building flood barrier
- fighting fires
- and maintaining roads and trails
- conserving both private and federal land.
Some of The Thing They Did
Replanted trees
One of the camps
The CCC enlisted 250,000 men in just 2 months
Dug trenches and maintained roads
This was one of Roosevelt Favorites
They often were called "Roosevelts tree army"
- They Made about $30 a month but $25 was required to send back to there families
- most worked a 8 hour day
- They Planted more then 3 million trees