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Show Six Years of CCC Id Reviewed As Camps Plan arioas Programs Completing six years of continuous con-tinuous activity, the Civilian Conservation Con-servation Corps justly points with pride to its state and national accomplishments, ac-complishments, said Regional Forester C. N. Woods, who this week initiated regional forest service observance of the sixth anniversary an-niversary of the organization. Previously Director Robert Fech-ner Fech-ner of Washington, D. C, in general gen-eral charge of CCC work, desig-' desig-' nated the period of March 31 to April 15 as the national CCC birthday celebration time. National Institution Operating under the combined jurisdiction of the Army, Departments Depart-ments of Agriculture, Labor and Interior, the CCC has in a bri'ef period become practically a national na-tional institution. Recommenda-1ions Recommenda-1ions now from many sources urge .it be placed on a permanent basis. The act authorizing the present CCC setup expires June 30, 1940. . "Twenty-eight camps within the intermountain area under Forest Service direction will participate in the national observance activities activ-ities in various ways," Mr. Woods said. "Each camp will develop and arrange its own program. The most popular feature is the 'open house' idea under which the public pub-lic is inited to visit the camps and projects on certain days to see at first hand what the CCC boys have accomplished and how they work and live. Practically every Forest Service camp in the Region will have 'open house' days sometime some-time during the birthday perior." Many Accomplishments Some outstanding accomplishments accomplish-ments in construction and conservation con-servation work during the past year by forest service camps are listed ly Mr. Woods, as follows: 61 vehicle and trail bridges, 3480 buildings and miscellaneous structural struc-tural improvements, 664 miles of telephone lines, 238 miles of mountain roads, 200 miles of erosion ero-sion control terraces, development develop-ment of scores of camp grounds throughout the intermountain state; wildlife protection projects such as stream improvement, fish planting and game counts; numerous num-erous range improvements such as fences, reseeding, eradication of poison plants, water developments, develop-ments, stock trails and erosion control; flood control consisting of dams, gully stabilization and channel clearing; forest culture including tree planting, nursery work, fighting insect pests and diseases, thinning and tree seed collection. Fire protection during the summer sum-mer season dominates the work in high hazard areas, and particularly par-ticularly in Idaho almost the entire en-tire burden of fire suppression is borne by CCC men. Well trained train-ed and experienced squads of enrollees" are always in readiness during the fire season for swift getaway when the first danger call comes. Special signals for calling men from project work are often arranged. Big fires now are manned largely by enrollees who are drawn from a number of camps nearest to the blaze, according ac-cording to carefully prepared mobilization mo-bilization plans. Emergency Work In addition to current projects, the CGC's are called upon to do many strange tasks. Emergency Emer-gency work of this kind required 2067 man-days the past year. It included aid in flood and other disasters, lost man- hunts, .and rescue details of many kinds. The schedule of current activities activi-ties in every canip includes training train-ing on the job and academic educational edu-cational courses that jointly prepare pre-pare the men for better citizenship citizen-ship and Improve their chances to get jobs and better wages. The camps are being recognized as excellent training grounds in practical jobs dealing with construction, con-struction, operating heavy and light equipment, repair and maintenance main-tenance of vehicles and machines, and in handling of men. Twelve forest service camps now on winter projects will move to summer locations in the near future or as soon as road and weather conditions permit. Generally Gen-erally these locations are in the higher country where year - long occupancy of sites is not possible pos-sible due to severe climatic conditions; con-ditions; . ' ; i |