Conservation Corps
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Conservation Corps in the Media ~ 1930 - 1933 


1933 - 200,00 Wandering Boys Fortune - February 1933.  

1933 - The Use of Unemployed in Reforestation by John D. Guthrie - TheTimberman - March 1933. 

1933 - What is Reforestation by J.N. Guthrie - Christian Science Monitor - March 1933. 

1933 - What is the CCC? by John D. Guthrie - Four L Lumber News, Portland, OR - March 1933.  

1933 - CCC Organization by Robert Fechner, Director, CCC - American Forests - April 1933.​ 

1933 - Forestry Unemployment Congressional Digest - April 1933.  (12:124-5)

1933 - Enlisting the Jobless to Smash the Depression Literary Digest - April 1, 1933.  (115:5)    

1933 - Peacetime Army New Republic - April 5, 1933. (74:202) 

1933 - Protests Regarding Sending Eastern Men to Arizona Camps - The Arizona Republic - April 8, 1933.  (Sec 1, Pg 6)   

1933 - First Reforestation Recruits are Sent to Conditioning Camps The Arizona Republic 
             Phoenix, AZ - April 8, 1933. (sec 1, pg 1) 

1933 - U.S.Program to Put 10,000 in State - The Arizona Republic - April 9, 1933.  (22 at Indian Gardens - Payson)

1933 - First Army of Idle Now in Camp News Week - April 15, 1933.    

1933 - Labor Army Takes to th Field Literary Digest - April 15, 1933.  (115:6)  

1933 - Forest Army Plans Business Week - April 18, 1933. 

1933 - Doughboys of 1933 to the Woods Literary Digest - April 29, 1933.  (115:22-3)    

1933 - Army Under the New Deal: Non-Military Mobilization of the CCC by Walker S. Buel  
             Literary Digest - April 29, 1933. (115:3-4)        

1933 - That 25,000 Man Job by R.Y. Stuart - American Forests - May 1933.

1933 - Federal Act Providing for the Relief of Unemployment Though Reforestation 
           Monthly Labor Review - May 1933.  (36:1039-40) 

1933 - Building Men, Growing Trees by Arthur Dunham - Survey - May 1933.  (69:186-7)    

1933 - State Forest Quota Raised to 1825 Men - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - May 5, 1933. (sec 1, pg1)

1933 - Tonto Forestry Camps Approved - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - May 10, 1933.  (sec1, pg 1)  

1933 - Forestry Recruits to Leave: 26 Mesa Young Men Signed Up and Ready for Departure to Arizona
           Reforestation Camps - The Mesa Tribune, Mesa, AZ - May 12, 1933. 

1933 - Coconino Forestry Work Camp Approved by Army Inspector
           The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - May 12, 1933.      View

1933 - Reforestation Plans Discussed The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - May 19, 1933.  (sec 2, pg 6)

1933 - Forest Camps to be Opened The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - May 23, 1933. 
          (525 men to Treasure Park, Pinal Mt and Indian Gardens)

1933 - State Camps Get First Recruits The Arizona Republic, Phoenix AZ - May 24, 1933.

1933 - Forest Workers Enthuiastic Over Begining Arizona Jobs The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - May 26, 1933.
           (Quotes from enrollees at Treasure Park Camp - description of camp)  ​

1933 - Camps for Jobless Men Saturday Evening Post - May 27, 1933.  

1933 - Roosevelt Forest Camp No. 1 by Erle Kauffman - American Forests - June 1933. 

1933 - Tower Erected on Signal Peak - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ- June 8, 1933.  (sec II, pg 1) 

1933 - Forests Need Improvements The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 12, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 3)

1933 - Texas Group Arrives The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 13, 1933.  (sec 2, pg 6)    (Bar-X Camp)

1933 - Conservation Corps Members Arriving The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - Jun 15, 33. (sec 1, pg 2)​  (Bar-X Camp)

1933 - Headquarters for Conservation Corps are Set-Up Here  - The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - June 16, 1933.   View

1933 - Wage Increase for CCC Workers - The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - June 16, 1933.   View

1933 - Lookout Tower Being Erected The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 19, 1933. (Heliograph Peak) 

1933 - U.S. to Furnish Camps With Radios The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 21, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 7)

1933 - Indian CCC Man at Leupp The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - June 23, 1933.    View

1933 - Forestry Desertions, Discharges Decrease The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 24, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 1)

​1933 - Indian Camps to Open The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 24, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 3)   (600-800 men)

1933 - The "Tree Army" and "Regulars The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 25, 1933  (sec 1, editorial page) 

1933 - Trucks Reach Globe for Use in Forests The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 27, 1933  (sec 2, pg 1) 

1933 - New Forestry Camp Planned The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 29, 1933. (sec 1, pg 2) (Rucker Canyon) 

1933 - Camp Visited by Army Men The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - June 30, 1933.  (sec 2, pf 1) ​  

1933 - Army Chief in Visit to Camps Here - The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - June 30, 1933.    View

1933 - 1330 Forest Camps up in Record Time Forestry News Digest - July 1933. 

1933 - Use of Unemployed in Reforestation in th U.S.A. (In French) by John D. Guthrie - Revue Forester Mag - July 1933. 

1933 - Religion in the Conservation Corps Missionary Review - July 1933.  (56:35) 

1933 - Reforestation at Last - Scientific American - July 1933.  (149:9)      

1933 - Reserve Officers Called to Service - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 1, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 10) 

1933 - Go to it Kid: Show'Em What you Can Do by B. Smith - American Magazine - July 1933.  (116:58-9) 

1933 - Vagrancy: A National Problem Contemporary Review - July 1933.

1993 - Our Forest Army at War by H. Doty - Review of Reviews - July 1933.  (88:30-4)    

1933 - Arizona Woods Units Praised The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 3, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 2) 

1933 - Posts to Visit Forestry Camps - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 3, 1933.  (se 2, pg 4) 
           (American Legion to promote program of Americanism at CCC camps)  

1933 - Forest Camps Set Records The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 3, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 2)  
           (Mobilization exceeds that of WWI.  Army spends $85,000 per day - beef from 330 steers - 225,000 1# loaves of bread)

1933 - Leupp, Ft. Defiance Reservations Ready for CCC Program The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - Juy 7, 1933.   View 

1933 - Forest Worker Dies at Globe The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - Jul 11, 33. (sec 2, pg 1) (Pneumonia - Bar-X camp)

1933 - Civilian Work Group Will Hear Roosevelt - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - Jul 12, 1933. (sec 1, pg 7)  
           (F.D.R. will address CCC nation-wide via radio on NBC & CBS)

1933 - Forest Spur Camp Organized in Gila - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 13, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 2)   
           (Spur camp at Boyce Thompson Arb., 20 men from Pinal Mt. - Vets from Ft Sam Houston sent to Tripp Cayon camp) 

1933 - What is Doing in the Forest Camps? -  The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 14, 1933.   (sec 2, editorial page)
           (benefits to youth more valuable than trees planted)  

1933 - Tripp Canyon Camp Opens - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 15, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 3)  (200 Vets from TX)​  

1933 - Roads Are Improved by Forest Recruits by L.C. Bolles - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - Jul 16, 33. (sec 1, pg 5) 

1933 - Forest Workers Battle Flames - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - July 18, 1933.  (sec 1, pg 8)  (Globe, AZ)  

1933 - The Emergency Conservation Program Science - July 21, 1933.  (72:52)  

1933 - Army Chief to Visit Camps Here  -  The Coconino Sun, Flagstaff, AZ - June 30, 1933.   

1933 - 310,000 Workers Now in Forestry Project in U.S. - Forestry News Digest - August 1933.  

1933 - Big Forestry Opportunity by Earl W. Tinker - Forestry News Digest - August 1933.   

1933 - CCC Camp 334 by G.W. Wharton Jr. - American Motorist - August 1933.  (8:12)  

1933 - Depression Army Moves to War by Pul H. Hyward - Nations Business - August 1933  (21:30) 

1933 - Remembered Men by Freeman Bishop - American Forests - August 1933.

1933 - Permanent Bnefit from Conservation Camps by Grover Conzet - The Minnesota Conservationist - August 1933. 

1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps - School And Society - August 12, 1933.  (38:972)  

1933 - Conservation Camps and the War Department by L.B. Thorpe - Christian Century - Aug 30, 33.  (60:1089)  

1933 - 20,000 Men in Penn's Woods by Henry Clepper - American Forests - September 1933. 

1933 - Emergency Conservtion Camps by W. Fank Persons - Social Service Review - Sep 1933. (7:485-487)  

1933 - Forest Army at the Front by Charles W.B. Hurd - Literary Digest - September 9, 1933.  (116:5-6)   

1933 - Thy Woods and Templed Hills by Walter Davenport - Colliers - September 9, 1933.  (92:10-12)   

1933 - Military Interlude Christian Century - September 13, 1933. (50:1144-5) 

1933 - Different Reports on the CCC by C. Knudson - Christian Century - September 13, 1933 (50:1149) 

1933 - Troopers of the Fog Commonwealth - September 14, 1933.  (18:462-5) 

1933 - Civilian Foresters in Floodtime by Erle Kauffman - American Forests  - October 1933. 

1933 - Human Dividends of the CCC Review of Reviews - October 1933.  (88:40-1)  

1933 - Conservation Corps Starts its Second Half Year News Week - October 7, 1933.  ​

1933 - CCC Makes Good by J.N. Darling - Christian Century - October 25, 1933.  (50:1333) 

1933 - ECW and CCC by C.M. Granger - Journal of Forestry - November 1933.  (31:759-765)  

1933 - Army and the CCC: Reply to J.N. Darling Christian Century - November 8, 1933.  (50:1441-2) 

1933 - The Civilian Conservation Corps Carries On by Freeman Bishop - American Forests - November 1933.

1933 - CCC Forestry Work Not Detrimental to Wildlife by Freeman Bishop - American Forests - Nov 1933.

1933 - Suppressing the Red Menace by Leander Pitman - Overland Monthly - November 1933.  (91:153)  

1933 - When East Goes West by Nelson Brown - American Forests - November 1933.

1933 - Benefits of CCC Work The Timberman - November 1933.   

1933 - Papago Park Work Planned - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - November 1, 1933.  (sec 2, pg 6)  
           (digging of 2 ponds at fish hatchery - building 3,000 seat amphitheate)   

1933 - Camp Buildings Near Completion - The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ - Nov 9, 1933. (sec 2, pg 1)  (Safford, AZ) 

1933 - Education Program for CCC Gets Under Way: Forestry First in Fechner Outline Forestry News Digest - Dec 33. 

1933 - Dawn of a New Day by Allen Cook - American Forests - December 1933.

1933 - Indians in th CCC Missionary Review - December 1933.  (56:611)   

1933 - With the East Texas Tree Army by John D. Guthrie - American Forests - December 1933.

1933 - CCC Camp Lewis & Clark The Timberman - December 19, 1933.  

1934 - CCC Unit Thanked for It's Work Here - The Arizona Daily Star, Tuscon, AZ - May 17, 1934.
           (CCC Camp F-42-A,Tanque Verde)  
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1934 - Harvey Bush Highway Open for Traffic - The Mesa Tribune, Mesa, AZ - May 18, 1934.









Civilian Conservation Corps 1935
Young Adult Conservation Corps 1979
Coconino Rural Environment Corps  2001
Montana Conservation Corps 2010