{"id":3349,"date":"2013-05-10T03:56:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestcamping.com\/blog\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2015-11-18T21:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T04:38:16","slug":"civilian-conservation-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/civilian-conservation-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilian Conservation Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 17, 1933, the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Camp Roosevelt, was established in the George Washington National Forest in northwest Virginia. \u00a0There would be 14 more CCC camps built on the George Washington and Thomas Jefferson national forests, both in Virginia. \u00a0A sad note is that, other than Camp Roosevelt, those other 14 camps are hard to find.<\/p>\n<p>Camp Roosevelt has been preserved and offers visitors some insight to the camp, the CCC, and the enrollees who called the camp home but it tells only part of the story. \u00a0People point to the following statistics to explain what the CCC did:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>more than 3,470 fire towers erected<\/li>\n<li>97,000 miles of fire roads built<\/li>\n<li>4,235,000 man-days devoted to fighting fires<\/li>\n<li>more than 3 billion trees planted<\/li>\n<li>disease and insect control<\/li>\n<li>forest improvement \u2014 timber stand inventories, surveying, and reforestation<\/li>\n<li>forest recreation development \u2014 campgrounds built, complete with picnic shelters, swimming pools, fireplaces, and restrooms.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What the numbers don&#8217;t show nor the interpretative signs illustrate is the impact on the young men, all of whom were unmarried, unskilled, many unable to read or write,\u00a0unemployed, and between the ages of 17 and 25. \u00a0What the CCC really did was far more than put thousands of young man to work or plant billions of trees. \u00a0Not only did the CCC provide us, today, with some fabulous recreational\u00a0opportunities\u00a0in our national forests but gave us a generation to look back at and admire what they did. \u00a0The CCC gave us role models and we shouldn&#8217;t forget that.<\/p>\n<p>There are few\u00a0ruminates of CCC camps left to remind us we owe a great deal to those young men who are now old or gone. \u00a0It makes the preservation of places like Camp Roosevelt in Virginia and\u00a0Camp Rabideau in MN all the more important.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0016.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0016-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DCF 1.0\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.forestcamping.com\/dow\/suzi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/PICT0016-300x225.jpg 300w, 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