Arthur W. Hartman-who 

 directed the Corps in the 

 Region and later became 

 Assistant Regional Forester 

 for Fire Control-say there 

 would have been no 

 Southern Region had there 

 not been a Civilian 

 Conservation Corps. 



By any assessment, the 

 Corps changed the 

 southern landscape. As 

 quickly as the Forest Service 

 acquired new land, Corps 

 camps were established 

 and put to work to develop 

 it. At the peak of the Corps 

 program, there were 31 1 

 forestry camps in the 

 South--*! 25 on national 

 forests and 1 86 under State 

 foresters. Progress in forest 

 reclamation directly 

 paralleled the growth of the 

 Corps program as enrollees 

 planted million of trees, 

 fought fires, battled erosion, 

 and built roads, bridges, 

 and recreation areas. 



The Civilian Conservation 

 Corps opened the door for 

 more intensive forest 

 management because 

 professional foresters were 

 hired to direct reclamation 

 projects. As the number of 

 foresters in the South 

 increased, the 

 understanding of southern 

 woods grew proportionally. 



Accomplishments within 

 the first 2 years of the 



program were astonishing. 

 Some highpoints: 



1. By 1935, the National 

 Forest Reservation 

 Commission was able to 

 report that, because of the 

 Corps, lands acquired prior 

 to the initiation of the 

 Emergency Conservation 

 Work Program were almost 

 completely covered by 

 timber stand improvement 

 work, and a very large part 

 of the newly acquired lands 

 likewise had been covered. 



2. The Southern Region's 

 fiscal year 1 935 receipts 

 were $192,894. Of that, 

 $187,467 represented the 

 revenue from the sale of 

 sawtimber, naval stores, 

 and other forest products. 



3. The 1935 report also 

 stated that road building 

 and fire control 

 improvements were being 

 made, and that special 

 emphasis on recreational 

 developments had begun. 

 Improved access meant 

 better fire protection and 

 increased recreational use 

 of forests. In fact, 

 recreational use of the 

 Southern Region's forests 

 tripled during the fiscal 

 year ending June 30, 1935 

 (U.S. Congress, Senate 

 1936). 



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