very different from the kind of life to which many enrollees are ac¬ 
customed. It is essential that enrollees should understand this fact 
and be adaptable to the change. 
Conservation Work 
To achieve its conservation purposes, the Corps must build 
roads through forests, plant trees on burned over and cut over areas, 
construct bridges and build dams. Farms must be redesigned, fences 
moved, fields relocated, and terracing done. On the two billion acres 
of land in the United States, there are hundreds of camps working 
steadily to demonstrate how to control the waste of natural resources 
(especially lands and forests), which has been going on during the 
past two centuries. 
Following is a partial list of CCC jobs: 
Auto mechanics 
Bridge construction 
Bulldozer operation 
Cabin construction 
Carpentry 
Concrete construction 
Cooking 
Diesel-engine operation 
Drafting 
Hospital orderly 
Jackhammer operation 
Landscaping 
Logging 
Office work 
Road and trail construction 
Road-grader operation 
Sawmill operation 
Sign painting and sign making 
Small dam construction 
Steam-shovel operation 
Stone masonry 
Store clerking 
Surveying 
Telephone-line construction 
Tool sharpening 
Tractor operation 
Tree-nursery work 
Truck driving 
Welding 
Wildlife management 
Not all of these jobs are available in any one camp. Many 
of them, however, are available in every camp. After demonstrating 
their ability as workmen for a period of six months or a year, ambi¬ 
tious enrollees are frequently transferred to another camp in order 
to obtain work experience which is more suitable to their abilities 
and interests. 
Each camp has a leisure time program of education and train¬ 
ing. Some enrollees complete their grade school or high school educa¬ 
tions. Others participate in special short-unit courses of information 
and instruction related to their interests and abilities. Most enrol¬ 
lees obtain additional training which has direct relationship to the 
work they are doing in camp. 
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