This post will be brief, but I felt it important to share an
online resource that has some good references to the Civilian Conservation
Corps. Better still, this is a primary
source document published before the abolishment of the CCC. The publication is Forest Outings, edited by Russell Lord and published by the United
States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service in 1940. You can access the entire text of this book here.
Though it is a study of our forests and their uses, there
are numerous references to the CCC and to CCC work in Forest Outings. Perhaps more
importantly, Forest Outings is a
snapshot of forester’s attitudes about forestry and land management in the late
1930s. I don’t recall ever seeing more
than one copy of Forest Outings in my travels so I’m very excited to find that
the book has been made available online so that anyone with an interest may
access it and use it as a research or reference tool. I hope that some of you will find it useful,
too.
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