• History Pub: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Oregon; A Living Legacy with Glenn Voelz

    McMenamins Old St Francis School 700 NW Bond St, Bend, Oregon

    Amid the depths of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt formulated a bold plan for putting millions of unemployed Americans to work on the nation's public lands. Between 1933 and 1942, over 86,000 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees worked on Oregon's national forests, state parks, and tribal lands. Their labor transformed the landscape and […]

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