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Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America

By:

Patricia Pearson

the story of the most popular New Deal program as the impoverished young men of the CCC gained health, skills, and confidence and built 800 parks, restored over 800,000 acres of range land, saved 21 million acres of forest and swamp, and planted 3 billion trees in the biggest conservation project in history

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