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When President Franklin D. Roosevelt came into office, he kept throwing out new ideas trying to see what would help the citizens of the US get back on track during the Great Depression. One of Roosevelt's ideas was to create a public works program called the CCC. The CCC was the Civilian Conservation Corps that operated from 1933-1942 in the US and it provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. The men who worked for the CCC were unemployed or unmarried men from relief families that were 18-25 years old. FDR created the CCC because it was designed to provide employment for young men in relief families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression while at the same time implementing a natural resource conservation program in every state and territory. As soon as men were hired, the CCC started to make the country a better place for the environment and its people. The CCC worked on projects that dealt with structural improvements, transportation, erosion/flood control, forest culture/protection, landscape and wildlife. During the time of the CCC, the young men across the US managed to plant nearly 3 billion trees to help reforest America, constructed more than 800 parks nationwide and upgraded most state parks, updated forest fire fighting methods and built a network of service buildings and public roadways in remote areas. Since then, The United States national parks are still preserved and show off the true beauty that America has to offer. Without the idea President FDR had instituted in the first place, the US would probably not be the same as it is to this day. Every state in the country had CCC camps that helped to create our environment and national parks that still stand today and FDR went down in history as one of the best presidents that changed America because of what he had accomplished and that part of his program still has a lasting effect on the US.
