CHAPTER XXII 

 EMERGENCY CONSERVATION WORK 



CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS 



The Civilian Conservation Corps is a combined social relief and 

 conservation program. It was primarily designed to relieve distress 



FIG. 117. Meal time at the first Civilian Conservation Corps camp, known as 

 Camp Roosevelt, established in the George Washington National Forest in 



Virginia in April, 1933. 



and unemployment. It constitutes the greatest forward impetus that 

 forest conservation has received since the early years of the present 

 century, from President Theodore Roosevelt and his chief forester, 

 Gifford Pinchot. It has provided a great opportunity to accomplish 

 many things in the woods that foresters have wanted to do for years. 



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