Franklin D. Roosevelt was an avid amateur woodskeeper. "Squire Roosevelt began to reforest his mother's lands (at Hyde Park, N.Y.) as long ago as 1915," Time magazine reported in 1939, "when he was ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and national ...

Few federal government programs today are viewed as efficient and popular, with long-lasting effects. The Civilian Conservation Corps, the enormously successful Depression-era program of Franklin D.

I am researching for a documentary on the Civilian Conservation Corps of the '30s during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. I wlecome responses from thos still living CCC veterans: their ...

The Department of Agriculture creates a separate division of forestry to address management policies of the nation’s forests. President Benjamin Harrison, Courtesy: Bureau of Printing and Engraving ...

"I can get a little choked up sometimes talking about the CCC," says Tim Scott, assistant superintendent of Devil's Den State Park near Winslow. "About 60 percent of the park, as it is today, was ...

“If you put a rose in his hand, it would wilt” was a saying once unfairly directed at President Herbert Hoover but which applies in full to President Biden’s miniaturized “climate corps” proposal ...

The CCC could focus on forestry, preventing soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects that would avoid financial loss, Roosevelt wrote to Congress in March 1933. "This is brought home by the ...