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Granger: to &quot;become assistant to Chief Forester Stuart in handling 

 the Department of Agriculture share in the program.&quot; 



Things started off with a &quot;bang! President Franklin 

 Roosevelt called for an immediate report to him on 

 where the first contingent of camps could be located ; 

 We had no time to consult the regional foresters. Ray 

 Headley, then Chief of Operation in the Washington office, 

 with his wide knowledge of the national forests, was 

 able to put down on a map the approximate location of 

 the first hundred national forest camps and this was 

 rushed to the President and approved by him, and we were 

 in business, with the first CCC camp established in the 

 George Washington National Forest in Virginia on 

 April 17, 1933. 



Fry: In the S. Bevier Show interview manuscript,^ there is 

 a story of a few Eegional Foresters being in Washing 

 ton at the time and hastily working out maps, plans, 

 camp locations, and projects for CCC s presentation 

 feo FDR. Do you know if this was part of Headley s 

 project to get his map done? (The two accounts, so 

 far, are a bit like the result of the blind men who 

 each felt a different part of the elephant; I am 

 not sure what Headley s job had to do&amp;gt; with the 



Show, S. Bevier, National Forests in California, an inter 

 view conducted by Regional Oral History Office, University 

 of California, Berkeley, 1965, Bancroft Library, 



