The CCC

[fish-fighting-illini]

Team pampers forget it I doubt your history books go back this far!

   I caught parts of a documentary on PBS on this the other night. I had no idea about how far reaching this was. Several things near where I used to live and near me now were built during that time and are still standing in beautiful shape - 1st class high school stadium seats prob 12K?, minor league ballpark ( both out of all brick). Starved Rock state park & lodge beautiful wooden structure plus the park itself.

   I had no idea just how many projects related to conservation. FDR had his A game on this one ( please leave the politics out of this ).

   I need to research this more as it is fascinating.

FFI - AKA Matt Crum

[Long Mike]

The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) was one of FDR's stimulus packages, designed to help usher the U.S. out of the Great Depression.  My Dad worked for the CCC as a young man.

Gosh, I just realized that Obama is a copy-cat.

[dave]

I watched that show. Great show. I worked in the YCC (Youth Conservation Corps) as a kid.

[fish-fighting-illini]

Dave Interesting I never knew there was one I'll have to look that up.

Mike Funny man you are 

re: "( please leave the politics out of this )."You just couldn't do it could you? lol

[Lund Explorer]

My Uncle worked for CCC for a number of years before going to work for MI-DNR.

If you ever get a weekend to go camping up this ways, try North Higgins Lake SP.

http://www.michigandnr.com/parksandtrails/Details.aspx?id=478&type=SPRK

Right across the road from the park entrance is the CCC Museum.  Here's the write up from the above web page:

The Civilian Conservation Corps Museum documents the efforts to "put Americans back to work" during the Great Depression. The CCC enrolled more than 100,000 young Michigan men to perform a variety of a conservation and reforestation efforts. Between 1933 and 1942, the Michigan CCC planted 484 million trees, spend 140,000 days fighting forest fires and constructed 7,000 miles of truck trails, 504 bridges and 222 buildings. The DNR state park system still carries many examples of their work still in use today.Please check the DNR Calendar for upcoming events at this location and at all state parks and recreation areas.

On a final sad note, many of the bath-houses in our state's parks are being torn down a replaced with "green-technology" buildings.  Nice, but not very historic.