- Special Sections - Public Notices Editor’s Note: Information
for this feature on the history of the Civilian Conservation
Corps and its role in the Hoosier National Forest was gathered
by Teena Ligman, a public-affairs specialist for the Hoosier
National Forest. It is one of a series of articles marking the
75th anniversary of the forest’s creation. Though the Civilian
Conservation Corps evolved from despair and a nation desperately
in need of help, it became a program that today represents the
very best of a dark period in the nation’s history. Across the
country, the work of the CCC is still enjoyed by millions of
people and many programs since have tried to copy the success of
putting people to work to generate public benefits. President
Franklin Roosevelt created the Emergency Work Act in 1933 in his
first hundred days in office. One of the programs which came out
of this act was the CCC – a program to recruit young men to work
in forests and parks, and improve our nation’s natural
resources. The young