Local History of CCC Featured at Library

The history of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest will be presented Thursday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Commuity Room of the Coeur d'Alene Public Library, 702 E. Front Ave.
Sarah Wilson, of the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, will present the program. May is Idaho Archaelogy and Historic Preservation Month. The library program is offered locally in conjunction with "Civilian Conservation Corps: When We Were Young," an exhibit at the Museum of North Idaho, 115 Northwest Blvd.
The CCC was a public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation from 1933 to 1942. As part of the New Deal legislation proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC was designed firstly, to aid relief of high unemployment stemming from the Great Depression and secondly, carry out a broad natural resource conservation program on national, state and municipal lands.
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