Reply #4: CONGRESS TO REENACT AND FUND CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)

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and as soon as practicable hire and put our people back to work preserving our parks and natural resources.

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"America was in the grip of the Great Depression when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March of 1933. More than twenty-five percent of the population was unemployed, hungry, and without hope. The New Deal programs instituted bold changes in the federal government that were meant to energize the economy and create an equilibrium to help bolster the needs of citizens.

Camp Roosevelt - George Washington National Forest - Near Edinburg Virginia Out of this economic chaos emerged the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). Its purpose was two-fold -- conservation of our natural resources and the salvage of our young men. The CCC is recognized as the single greatest conservation program in America and it served as a catalyst to develop the very tenets of modern conservation. The work of America's young men dramatically changed the future and today we still enjoy a legacy of natural resource treasures that dot the American landscape."

http://www.ccclegacy.org/