Download or read book Summary Report of the Director of Emergency Conservation Work on the Operations of Emergency Conservation Work written by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Years of Emergency Conservation Work Civilian Conservation Corps written by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The New Deal s Forest Army written by Benjamin F. Alexander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed, rejuvenated, and protected American forests and parks at the height of the Great Depression. Propelled by the unprecedented poverty of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established an array of massive public works programs designed to provide direct relief to America’s poor and unemployed. The New Deal’s most tangible legacy may be the Civilian Conservation Corps’s network of parks, national forests, scenic roadways, and picnic shelters that still mark the country’s landscape. CCC enrollees, most of them unmarried young men, lived in camps run by the Army and worked hard for wages (most of which they had to send home to their families) to preserve America’s natural treasures. In The New Deal’s Forest Army, Benjamin F. Alexander chronicles how the corps came about, the process applicants went through to get in, and what jobs they actually did. He also explains how the camps and the work sites were run, how enrollees spent their leisure time, and how World War II brought the CCC to its end. Connecting the story of the CCC with the Roosevelt administration’s larger initiatives, Alexander describes how FDR’s policies constituted a mixed blessing for African Americans who, even while singled out for harsh treatment, benefited enough from the New Deal to become an increasingly strong part of the electorate behind the Democratic Party. The CCC was the only large-scale employment program whose existence FDR foreshadowed in speeches during the 1932 campaign—and the dearest to his heart throughout the decade that it lasted. Alexander reveals how the work itself left a lasting imprint on the country’s terrain as the enrollees planted trees, fought forest fires, landscaped public parks, restored historic battlegrounds, and constructed dams and terraces to prevent floods. A uniquely detailed exploration of life in the CCC, The New Deal’s Forest Army compellingly demonstrates how one New Deal program changed America and gave birth to both contemporary forestry and the modern environmental movement.

Download or read book Wilderness by Design written by Ethan Carr and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carr delves into the planning and motivations of the people who wanted to preserve America's scenic geography. He demonstrates that by drawing on historical antecedents, landscape architects and planners carefully crafted each addition to maintain maximum picturesque wonder. Tracing the history of landscape park design from British gardens up through the city park designs of Frederick Law Olmsted, Carr places national park landscape architecture within a larger historical context.

Download or read book Nature s New Deal written by Neil M. Maher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Depression coincided with a wave of natural disasters, including the Dust Bowl and devastating floods of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Recovering from these calamities--and preventing their reoccurrence--was a major goal of the New Deal. In Nature's New Deal, Neil M. Maher examines the history of one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's boldest and most successful experiments, the Civilian Conservation Corps, describing it as a turning point both in national politics and in the emergence of modern environmentalism. Indeed, Roosevelt addressed both the economic and environmental crises by putting Americans to work at conserving natural resources, through the Soil Conservation Service, the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (or CCC). The CCC created public landscapes--natural terrain altered by federal work projects--that helped environmentalism blossom after World War II, Maher notes. Millions of Americans devoted themselves to a new vision of conservation, one that went beyond the old model of simply maximizing the efficient use of natural resources, to include the promotion of human health through outdoor recreation, wilderness preservation, and ecological balance. And yet, as Maher explores the rise and development of the CCC, he also shows how the critique of its campgrounds, picnic areas, hiking trails, and motor roads frames the debate over environmentalism to this day. From the colorful life at CCC camps, to political discussions in the White House and the philosophical debates dating back to John Muir and Frederick Law Olmsted, Nature's New Deal captures a key moment in the emergence of modern environmentalism.

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Download or read book First Report of the Director of the Emergency Conservation Work written by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Security Work and Relief Policies 1942 written by United States. National Resources Planning Board. Committee on Long-range Work and Relief Policies and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Knots in Second growth Pine and the Desirability of Pruning written by Benson H. Paul and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pruning of young trees in sparsely and unevenly stocked stands will greatly improve the resulting lumber grades. In northern white and red pines, even in fully stocked stands, artificial pruning is essential for the production of any of the best grades of lumber in a reasonable time.

Download or read book National Resources Development Report written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book National Resources Development Report for 1943 written by United States. National Resources Planning Board and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Money Manager Capitalism written by Eric Tymoigne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s. These changes profoundly modified the foundations of economic growth in the US by destroying the commitment banking model and by decreasing the earning power of households whose consumption has been at the core of the growth process. The main themes of the book are the changes in the financial structure and income distribution, the collapse of the Ponzi process in 2007, and actual and prospective policy responses. The objective is to show that Minsky’s approach can be used to understand the making and unfolding of the crisis and to draw some policy implications to improve financial stability.

Download or read book Bibliography on Soil Erosion and Soil and Water Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is a list of references to published material on soil erosion and soil and water conservation. Some of these references may not appear to deal directly with erosion or conservation, but they have a pertinent relationship to some phase of the subject.

Download or read book Security Work and Relief Policies written by United States. National Resources Planning Board. Committee on Long-range Work and Relief Policies and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Two Years of Emergency Conservation Work Civilian Conservation Corps written by Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Emergency Conservation Work written by United States. Dept. of Labor and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Civilian Conservation Corps written by Anna Lou Riesch Owen and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: