Civilian Conservation Corps | Oregon Experience 

I was in the CCC at the South Lake Tahoe Center. I was on the fire crew and it was some of the hardest work I have ever done in my life. But made me the man, father, husband, and friend I am today.

Feel like this program needs to come back

“I think the CCC, it gave people hope.” Me thinks us humans could use some Hope at this point.

It'd be nice if humanity would learn from history. Have a works project for people recovering from substance issues and an alternative to playing video games for people to be outdoors. Thanks for posting.

I have pictures of my grandmother and several of the CCC boys she knew (and one she dated) from Riddle, Oregon, back in the early 1930s. Her stories of her youth are a treasure.

I hadn't heard about this program before. It would do so much good today too! Inlightening.

The CCC is still alive and well in California. Every state needs one! 😊

A lot of issues we're having today could be greatly affected by a program like this, don't know why they don't bring it back.

And that is America. Thanks to all those people who gave so much to all of us. God bless the USA!

My Step-Father was in the CCC. Born 1922 Died 2000.. What a great endeavor for the country and the young men!.

We have many beautiful old CCC camps here in PA that are now wonderful campgrounds too.

This should be reinstated... save inner city youth from the life that awaits them, payback education loans... - money well spent,

My Great Uncle was part The CCC… Blessed for all the amazing gifts these young men gave us to enjoy in all their splendor. 🌲🦾🌊🖤✨

.... almost 90 years later, and across many states, even as a younger generation I know and am so thankful to still enjoy many state parks created by this program and its amazing people

This kind of program can definitely help directionless young adults today. I also think a large group of today’s youth would be interested in rehabilitation of natural spaces.

To bad they stopped this program grew men and leaders we are lacking today . When you are starving broke it humbled everone . Everyone seemed greatful almost all Americans were in same boat back then begging for work to feed their families. Thats why I call them the greatest generation. Their bellies didn't care where you were from . My grandma's and Grandpa 's on both side were farmers from Nebraska dust bowl hit them hard as most states in midwest . Hell farmers couldn't sell their crops no one had money after the crash most banks went out of business. My Grandpa didn't trust banks after loosing his money during deression until 1980's . He would pay cash for all his cars didn't ever finance anything. My mom side had eleven kids during the depression they all survived became share croppers .My grandma talked alot about thoes days and their hardships. Think we should bring some form of CCC back have one for men at 19 work twoyears you get college paid for . That wouldn't be welfare you would earn your own way . Have CCC draft either do two years in CCC ore do two years military service . That woud give both a headstart have real world experience and money for college . Every state has rual areas being left behind use them in new Version of CCC live program. Teach civics classes and Americanism. Back in thoes days everyone worked for what they got including food to servive . Teach trades in two years of CCC and work like a apprenticeships in , treach basic carpentry, could build public housing for struggling areas and for disaster areas could do alot of good and treach commonality to get job done . Have them plant forests that have burned out . The CCC should be mandatory for atleast one year out of highschool or two years military and college is paid for also. When people earn their way the have pride in themselves, know how to work as a team and more cohesive society as a whole .

There's a park out in Wyoming with a tower and building made of stone on the road from Yellowstone to Cody Wyoming. It may actually be east of Cody. I stopped there several years ago. We could see the long coal trains passing by in distance. Beautiful red cliffs on the west side of Cody. Then the cliffs along the Platte where the wagon trains came through. There are a lot of state parks with CCC work that can be seen even today.

In the Tillamook State Forest, the Reehers Campground was built on the site of a former CCC camp. One of the more recently built trails out of this campground is the 3C trail commonly called the "Triple C". It was named to honor the contributions of the CCC men who once lived and worked here.

What a great endeavor for the country and the young men!

Back in the 70's. I worked in the CA. Conservation corp

Loved this film! My dad was kept busy logging in southern Oregon with his dad and brothers during this time. He never mentioned anything about the big fires around Tillamook and other places. Maybe he wasn't that aware of them at the time. I wish they still had a CCC in some form for young men and women, concentrateed around cities instead of just the rural areas.

I hope that every effort is made to preserve these wonderful projects, whenever possible, for generations to come that they may see we can be united rather than divided.

This was such a great program. The buildings they constructed are so beautiful and have stunning craftsmanship. Especially the structures in the Columbia Gorge. Beacon Rock and Eagle Creek have fine examples of CCC work at its best.

We need another Roosevelt. GOP today like back then. Regulate banks jobs, etc. Those walls ,etc built are starting to fall apart. They threatened him too but he moved ahead.

My Grandfather was a member of the CCC and had taken some classes. Years later he ended up in Alaska as an Engineer. I regret that I was a young child the only times I got to see him. He died when I was a young teen in the early 60s?

While stationed at Fort Vancouver, George C. Marshall was a key administrator / enabler of regional CCC activities. He later oversaw the mobilization of the U. S. Army for World War 2 and the reconstruction of post-war Europe.

My grandpa worked at the ccc camp. Now I know more about it. Thank you

My late Father was in the ccc. they built a ski lodge and trail at Colorado Springs Co.

I have ancestor’s who lived and worked during the depression in Oregon,the jobs from the government were life sustaining for some of them. My dad took us on a road trip to see some of places his dad had camped and worked around the Columbia River. They were hard times for them all.

what a wonderful program. Thank you

Great work Mr hoover and boys we thank so many years later for work you did then 😊

there ar CCC campgrounds all over oregon still- thanks to these guys

Half the politicians (I won't say which to keep the trolls away) don't believe in public works programs. FDR's biographies describe the monumental effort he put into persuading and shaping his many many programs to save this country. Eleanor was often his eyes and ears and inspiration for helping the destitute. Some of us had great hopes after the 2020 election that the current president could do the same. He has done a lot and hopefully his second term will be even more productive but FDR was unique in his ability to read people, strategize, and push things thru.

My Grandfather was part of that project. Came to southern Oregon in 1937

The buildings/roads/hiking paths and work that the ccc accomplished ~ we are still enjoying today. One of the best programs that government initiated. Just what would have happened to so many people w/o this plan? Thanks for this documentary with film footage/pics/testimony.

My Grandfather worked at the Tillamook CCC in the late 1940s, until he was old to enlist in the Army.

As a nation, we need a smaller version of this in every state. It would give people a alternative way to learn new life skills while improving public lands for generations to come.

My father joined the CCC when he was 15 (lied about his age) when his father died. Dad was the oldest of 5 siblings, so he became responsible for the family. He worked the marble quarries in Alabama and Georgia and learned how to blast out slabs with explosives. He showed me the work done by the Corps around the southeast US, and I've easily spotted their unique, high-quality work around the nation. We would benefit from their presence again, but I wonder if today's people could duplicate what was done by The Greatest Generation.

I worked for the YCC in the 1980s good hard work that most kids could not do today I hiked and worked hard I learned and built trails

Bravo.....they should keep it going.....start it up.......cheers

Uncle Gus was in CCC in portola, ca

Was I the only one to look for relatives? I wish there was a full registry of the Oregon camps!

My dad was a CCC boy.

Bring it back.

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Do you know a program like that with the homeless crisis that we’re going through right now would actually be a benefit

I have a block outhouse they built on my farm.

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When those young men saw the meals 😆😆😆

Conditions under the conservative Hoover administration is a window into our future. Helping people is considered WOK by the GOP. They believe in low wages and obedience and few social safety nets.

I’ve never figured out how in 1933 my grandparents got a loan of $3,800 against a 340 acre farm. They had dairy cows for a local grade A dairy. They raised turkeys and chickens. They sold vegetables from the HUGE garden. Grandpa and grandma both held part time jobs in town to bring money in between the pay seasons. Just never understood the opportunity they had at a time many couldn’t even find a job.

LOVE their work efforts but yes definitely seemed like the US was starting it's own military groups with ages of young men and such ...even the CCC arm bands these young men started wearing on uniform like the young men in Germany at that time.

I love FDR for creating this. Republicans of today would argue about it and go forth to cut the funding. History proves that this was an important program at an important time.

So much respect for these men! FDR and the generation of that time truly were the greatest generation! How anybody can criticize FDR and his efforts before during, and after the war, and through these hard times is beyond me. We need leader ship and ideas like that today. I hope the new infrastructure bill takes us in a new direction for our future!

What percentage of the CCC became soldiers in WWII?

It should of been made permanent

Why don't we go with what works anymore? Vocational and jobs core? With all the technology and AI, replacing human jobs, we are needing programs for people to be retrained in a new profession. I thought we made machines to help humans do things easier? This was supposed to give humans more time to do other things, while the machines do the work, but we shouldn't have to work ourselves to death, working 2-3 jobs just to make ends meet. Every citizen is worthy of a decent life, with a home, education, heat, water, and food, just for being a citizen. We have to be able to feed and house our families somehow. That's why we hire government! To figure out how to feed and house citizens and make laws so we can thrive, not drown us in debt, and take our homes and food programs! Now they're use prisoners to do what the CCC used to do. I'm for prisoners working but I'd like to see these programs brought back for everyone who wants or needs it.

bring in private money. do deals. lots of folks are going to complain anyway. would like to see more low rises so people arn't trapped in elevators or hallways. oh boy.