The Department of Agriculture creates a separate division of forestry to address management policies of the nation’s forests. President Benjamin Harrison, Courtesy: Bureau of Printing and Engraving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After closing his presentation on the Civilian Conservation Corps to about 80 people Monday at the Mohican Historical Society in ...

Long before it became one of Texas' most treasured outdoor destinations, Caddo Lake State Park was little more than a vision ...

There aren’t many signs marking their achievements and their numbers are dwindling daily. But the work undertaken by the enrollees of the Civilian Conservation Corps contributed much to California, ...

Of the three million men who took part in the New Deal-era public works program, it is estimated that around 53% came from rural parts of the country. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) boys at work in ...

On Dec. 16, 1934, five young men, enrollees with the 196 Company, Civilian Conservation Corps, at Sandisfield State Forest, were killed in a truck accident on Three Mile Hill in Great Barrington while ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) began on March 31, 1933 under President Roosevelt’s “New Deal” to relieve the poverty ...

“In practically every case, Delaware boys are enjoying the camp life and have so expressed themselves to their commanding officers,” the Milford Chronicle reported on Sept. 15, 1933. At the time, 453 ...

Northern Michigan is filled with forests, and when you see patches of red pine trees in perfect rows, they didn’t just appear. It’s because of the hard work by young men about 90 years ago that helped ...

On a Thursday morning in late May of 1934, Washington State Parks Superintendent William G. Weigle drove from his Seattle office to Millersylvania State Park in Thurston County, about 14 miles south ...