Instituted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program in the March of 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided a work relief program for the increasing unemployed segment of the American populace. The program enticed young men between the ages of 18 to 25 with a promise of manual labor and $30 a month, $25 of which had to be sent home to their families. The minimum contract required six months of service and the man serve a total of four terms, or two years. The Civilian Conservation Corps was tasked with conserving natural resources, cleaning National Forests and Parks, animal population control, and animal disease control. Their initial focus consisted of preventing erosion by using multi-tiered terraces and reforestation. To better manage…