In 1949 the Sunset Highway (U.S. Route 26) was completed by the WPA (Works Progress Administration), and the Civilian Conservation Corps. This highway made access ... from Oregon — and utilized their ...

Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) sought to counter high unemployment caused by the Great Depression by hiring young, unmarried citizens for nationwide ...

Among the programs affected was the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps ... is already being felt in Montana. Montana Conservation Corps, which partners with AmeriCorps through the ...

The Civilian Conservation Corps was part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Enrollees became known as the "tree army" because of how many they planted — more than 2 billion. Today's state and ...

Ahead of the council’s vote, and one week after being sent home due to federal funding cuts, Green Bay Conservation Corps members outlined the work they’d like to resume. “We’re the ones ...

Members of the Pennsylvania Conservation Corps began restoration work at a cemetery in the ‘Boyd Big Tree Preserve.’ The Conservation Corps is ten years old. Members provide hands-on lessons ...

“We’ve just been figuring things out since then.” Paradise’s AmeriCorps program, the Lakes Region Conservation Corps, was one of more than 1,000 that were cut across the country after the ...

Maria Otto, local coordinator of the Green Bay Conservation Corps, the Green Bay chapter of AmeriCorps, fought back tears at the response of the local community in support of her program following ...

Green Bay’s Common Council approved $115,000 Tuesday night to help fund Green Bay’s Conservation Corps through their term, which runs through August. Tuesday night’s unanimous vote approved ...