Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Planting Crew

ID: 727 ~ Source: "Ratcliff CCC Camp," rootsweb, accessed March 4, 2015, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txhousto/photo_locations/ccc.camp.htm.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Planting Crew

The Ratcliff CCC planting crew riding in to work. "Roosevelt's Tree Army" improved parks, planted trees and other conservation projects. The CCC planted 72 million trees in East Texas. Without these men, the forests of East Texas would be completely different today,

This file appears in: Davy Crockett National Forest

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