According to Elliot, “to be eligible for CCC, men had to be 18 to 25 years of age, single and with some member of their family receiving public relief. Enrollees received $30 per month, $24 of which had to be sent home to help support their families. In addition, enrollees received clothing, food, housing, and medical care.” The duties of the Civilian Conservation Corps were many, including “forest fire control, tree planting, road construction, recreation area construction and maintenance, installation of telephone lines, fish and wildlife habitat improvement, timber stand improvement and surveying.” With much of this work, according to Elliot, still evident today (though Elliot wrote his pamphlet in 1977, his words still hold merit). He qualifies this statement by pointing out that “many roads, recreation areas, ranger stations, the Trees for Tomorrow training center and countless timber plantations exist because of the corpsmen’s hard work.” The Trees for Tomorrow training center that Elliot writes about is located in the city of Eagle River, Wisconsin. Elliot concludes the section concerning the Civilian Conservation Corps by writing: At the peak of the CCC program, the Nicolet Forest had 22 camps, with about 200 enrollees per camp. The Army was responsible for the enrollees’ housing, clothing, feeding, and medical care. The Forest Service, in turn, was in charge of the work program and furnishing supervision, materials and the necessary equipment for carrying out the projects. The Forest Service’s camp organization consisted of a camp superintendent, three to six foremen, three to four construction foremen and two to three sub-formen. The Army also had an educational advisor on their staff who set up evening classes. Forest Service personnel would teach classes several evenings a week. The Civilian Conservation Corps, as Elliot further writes, was t...
