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Civilian Conservation Corps  

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  • The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), a New Deal work-relief program for young men established in 1933, is too often remembered simply as Pres. Franklin Roosevelt's “Tree Army,” a popular program looked upon with special favor by a president who famously considered himself an amateur forester. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; Civilian Conservation Corps]

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