Salvation Through Service

They built 23,000 miles of hiking trails, 125,000 miles of new roads, and 47,000 bridges. They stocked 1 billion fish in waterways nationwide, strung 89,000 miles of telephone lines, and erected 3,470 fire towers. They spent more than 4 million man-days fighting forest fires, dedicated 7 million man-days to habitat restoration, and worked for 9 straight years on erosion control, water conservation, forest management and rangeland improvements.

They are best known for planting more than 3 billion trees. And, according to Robert Beers, a 93-year resident of Southwest Colorado, they killed a few porcupines, too. They were the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the landscape surrounding us today stands in quiet tribute to the power of service and selflessness to shape a struggling nation.

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