The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada
Title | The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | Renée Corona Kolvet |
Publisher | University of Nevada Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2015-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0874176891 |
The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Luckily, thanks to Nevada’s powerful Senate delegation, Roosevelt’s New Deal funding flowed abundantly into the state. Among the programs thus supported was the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal program intended to provide jobs for unemployed young men and a pool of labor for essential public lands rehabilitation projects. In all, nearly thirty-one thousand men were employed in fifty-nine CCC camps across Nevada, most of them from outside the state. These “boys,” as they were called, went to work improving the state’s forests, parks, wildlife habitats, roads, fences, irrigation systems, flood-control systems, and rangelands, while learning valuable skills on the job. Rural communities near CCC camps reaped additional benefits when local men were hired as foremen and when the camps purchased supplies from local merchants. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada is the first comprehensive history of the Nevada CCC, a program designed to help the nation get back on its feet, and of the “boys” who did so much to restore Nevada’s lands and resources. The book is based on extensive research in private manuscript collections, unpublished memoirs, CCC inspectors’ reports, and other records. The book also includes period photographs depicting the Nevada CCC and its activities.
Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Nevada
Title | Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 1992 |
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Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Nevada
Title | Civilian Conservation Corps in Northern Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 7 |
Release | 1992* |
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Clark County, Nevada
Title | The Civilian Conservation Corps in Clark County, Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | William Gregory White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 116 |
Release | 2003 |
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Conservation and Nevada
Title | Conservation and Nevada PDF eBook |
Author | Nevada. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1360 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Conservation of natural resources |
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The Bureau of Reclamation's Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy: 1933-1942
Title | The Bureau of Reclamation's Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy: 1933-1942 PDF eBook |
Author | Christine Pfaff |
Publisher | |
Pages | 540 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Government publications |
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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country
Title | The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Joseph Moore |
Publisher | Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
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Part of the massive relief effort of Roosevelt's New Deal, the ccc was created in 1933 to give young men an opportunity to work and make money to help families devastated by the Great Depression, and to participate in forest and conservation projects across the country. In Arizona, thousands of young men, many of them from the industrial Northeast, served in the state's ccc forest camps. Arizona's Mogollon Rim is a spectacular expanse of cliffs that slices through half the state, stretching from Sedona eastward to New Mexico. Along with the White Mountains, it includes the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine in America. Remote and little-visited in the 1930s, the Rim Country offered copious outlets for the ccc men's energies: building roads, public campsites, hiking trails, fire lookout towers, and administration buildings; fighting fires; controlling erosion; eliminating vermin; and restoring damaged soils.