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Snowbrushy
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 Sun Nov 27, 2005 7:10 am PHOTOS WYOMING CCC
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Here are old photo's of the CCC in western Wyoming.
http://www.sublette.com/history/ccc/
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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Mike Collins
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| Enigma wrote: | | If I recall correctly, the CCC also fought against a particular disease that affected white pines in the Mount Rainier area. How, I don't know, and for how long, I don't know either. This was a random tidbit I learned in my Env. Science/20th Century history class. |
The CCC was helpful in controlling the spread of White Pine Blister Rust. The disease is an imported fungus brought from Europe. Commercially it effects White Pines but alternate host are found on currants and gooseberry plants. The CCC went out during the 30's in patrols in an attempt to eradicate the Ribes plants which serve as infected hosts. I spoke with an elderly man who had been part of the program. People would go off into the forest with long spools of string. It was the job of those eradicating the plants to pull up every single currant or gooseberry found between the strings. The fungus is easy to see on the underside of the leaves affected. The spores released travel by wind to the dampened stomata of White Pine needles and the infection starts.
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Snowbrushy
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Thu Dec 15, 2005 8:56 am HIGH BRIDGE GUARD STATION
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Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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just found out a few days ago that the picnic shelter at Lincoln-Eldridge Park in Tacoma was a CCC Building built in the 30's. Park is right by Lincoln High School, so of course the building has seen better days.. This is off Thompson Ave. and 38th ST.
kenya believe it??
"Time is so everything doesn't happen at once. Space is so everything doesn't happen to you."
kenya believe it??
"Time is so everything doesn't happen at once. Space is so everything doesn't happen to you."
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Snowbrushy
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Mon May 01, 2006 10:13 pm Hey, LookOut Bob Look
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The CCC built this lookout in 1938 on Chelan Butte. lookout11 shutters
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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Dave Workman
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My grandfather was in the CCCs in the 1930s over in Naches, and he built the old Naches ranger station. My dad graduated from Naches high school in 1939 while the family lived over there.
An interesting read. They did a lot of good work for damn little money, but the things they accomplished are still visible today in many areas. Old picnic tables, foot bridges, road bridges...they built that stuff to last.
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted." - D.H. Lawrence
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Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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| polecatjoe wrote: | There's a great Interpretive Center about the C.C.C. at Bowman Bay in Deception Pass State Park. Lots of historical pieces, a video and statue.
 C.C.C. statue at Bowman Bay |
I visited this little CCC museum about 10 years ago. Stumbled across it while spending the day at Deception Pass with friends and ended up spending a couple hours there. I was more touched by it, and by the stories of the men involved, than by nearly any other museum exhibit I've ever seen. It made a deep impression such that I've been telling people about it ever since.
If ever there was a win-win-win idea/program - for the country, for wilderness areas, and for the men and their families - the CCC was it.
Good thread and thanks for the bump about the anniversary.
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captain jack
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The CCC was given the Harvey Bell Award by the PBTA in 2007, in recognition for thier excellent trail work.
A nice article about the CCC is here, with a picture of Walt Bailey too! 
http://www.trailbuilders.org/resources/harvey_bell_award.html
I pointed out the signature trail construction sections to S.T. on the Bear Lake trail. The CCC trails on Mountain Loop highway all look similar, with nice small smooth gravel laid down flat on a raised bed, with drainage ditches down both sides, wonderful to walk on.
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| captain jack wrote: | | A nice article about the CCC is here |
Thanks! This picture was in the article.
 CCC Anniversary
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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I stumbled upon this guy in Shenandoah National Park this spring. Apparently his name is "Iron Mike", he represents all of the C.C.C. workers, and there are 40 of these statues at various locations around the country. I have now found 2! I've been to the location of 2 other ones, but before the statues were there.
 C.C.C. statue in Shenandoah National Park
"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged." - Virginia Woolf
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Snowbrushy
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That is a fine bronze statue! We should have one on Mather Memorial Parkway (SR 410) because it is a beautiful road built by the CCC. Maybe on the top of Chinook Pass or Sunrise.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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Thu Nov 13, 2008 6:39 am Memories of Hard Times in Oregon
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This is an article about The Great Depression in Oregon.
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/1651983-35/story.csp
"The Civilian Conservation Corps, created to provide work for legions of unemployed young men, cut trails, built roads, bridges, ranger stations and campgrounds.."
 Timberline Lodge Mt Hood.  Hart Mt. Oregon CCC Camp.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
Oh Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace Like thoughts inside a dream Heed the path that led me to that place Yellow desert stream.
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