Nature's New Deal
Title | Nature's New Deal PDF eBook |
Author | Neil M. Maher |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0195306015 |
Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism.
Hard Work and a Good Deal
Title | Hard Work and a Good Deal PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara W. Sommer |
Publisher | Minnesota Historical Society |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780873516129 |
CCC veterans tell compelling stories of their experiences planting trees, fighting fires, building state parks, and reclaiming pastureland in this collective history of the CCC in Minnesota.
The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942
Title | The Civilian Conservation Corps and the National Park Service, 1933-1942 PDF eBook |
Author | John C. Paige |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) |
ISBN |
The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42
Title | The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42 PDF eBook |
Author | Alison T. Otis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Forest conservation |
ISBN |
Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps Camps
Title | Connecticut Civilian Conservation Corps Camps PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Podskoch |
Publisher | |
Pages | 542 |
Release | 2016-06 |
Genre | Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN | 9780979497995 |
Fighting for the Forest
Title | Fighting for the Forest PDF eBook |
Author | P. O’Connell Pearson |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2019-10-08 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1534429328 |
In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O’Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corps—one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal projects that helped save a generation of Americans. When Franklin D. Roosevelt took office in March 1933, the United States was on the brink of economic collapse and environmental disaster. Thirty-four days later, the first of over three million impoverished young men were building parks and reclaiming the nation’s forests and farmlands. The Civilian Conservation Corps—FDR’s favorite program and “miracle of inter-agency cooperation”—resulted in the building and/or improvement of hundreds of state and national parks, the restoration of nearly 120 million acre of land, and the planting of some three billion trees—more than half of all the trees ever planted in the United States. Fighting for the Forest tells the story of the Civilian Conservation Corp through a close look at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia (the CCC’s first project) and through the personal stories and work of young men around the nation who came of age and changed their country for the better working in Roosevelt’s Tree Army.
The New Deal's Forest Army
Title | The New Deal's Forest Army PDF eBook |
Author | Benjamin F. Alexander |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2018-02 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 142142455X |
How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression. Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s network of parks, national forests, scenic roadways, and picnic shelters that still mark the country’s landscape. CCC enrollees, most of them unmarried young men, lived in camps run by the Army and worked hard for wages (most of which they had to send home to their families) to preserve America’s natural treasures. In The New Deal’s Forest Army, Benjamin F. Alexander chronicles how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they actually did. He also explains how the camps and the work sites were run, how enrollees spent their leisure time, and how World War II brought the CCC to its end. Connecting the story of the CCC with the Roosevelt administration’s larger initiatives, Alexander describes how FDR’s policies constituted a mixed blessing for African Americans who, even while singled out for harsh treatment, benefited enough from the New Deal to become an increasingly strong part of the electorate behind the Democratic Party. The CCC was the only large-scale employment program whose existence FDR foreshadowed in speeches during the 1932 campaign—and the dearest to his heart throughout the decade that it lasted. Alexander reveals how the work itself left a lasting imprint on the country’s terrain as the enrollees planted trees, fought forest fires, landscaped public parks, restored historic battlegrounds, and constructed dams and terraces to prevent floods. A uniquely detailed exploration of life in the CCC, The New Deal’s Forest Army compellingly demonstrates how one New Deal program changed America and gave birth to both contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.