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CCC SLIDE 1:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 17:59:15 UTC

Franklin D. Roosevelt became the president right when America was hit hard by the Great Depression, so he created the CCC to bring jobs to the people who were going through these hard times.

CCC SLIDE 2:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 17:59:27 UTC

FDR approached the problems of the Great Depression by basically having it become the top priority on issues to fix mainly with government involvement, lots of job recruitments, and treating it like an emergency of war.

CCC Slide 3:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 18:27:23 UTC

In 1931 FDR signed an Act that gave unmarried men jobs to work in the CCC to work on various projects around the states, It went on for around 9 years and had 500,000 men enrolled in its peak, until it was phased out at the start of WW2.

CCC SLIDE 4:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 18:39:09 UTC

When FDR was 19 he was put in charge of one of his families estates in which he planted a lot of trees to help it out, and when he became the New York governor he bought a bunch of farmland to grow more trees too. So when he became President he started reforestation in massive amounts, which also helped out the lumber industry since America at the time only had 100 million acres in 1933.

CCC Slide 5:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 18:41:07 UTC

Slide 5 shows all of the camps that hundred of thousands of young men were sent to when FDR created the CCC.

CCC Slide 6:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 18:57:31 UTC

The CCC helped create 711 more State Parks across America and improved accessibility to older parks, as well as having a total of 2 million CCC workers working at the parks.

CCC Slide 7:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-08 20:19:25 UTC

The CCC were fighting fires for around a total of 6.5 million days during the 9 year run of its services, they practically used everything they had available to put out fires from shovels to bulldozers.

CCC Slide 8:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 02:41:49 UTC

The CCC made lots of trails, roads, telephone wire, and lookout towers across the states to help further stop wildfires from spreading.

CCC Slide 9:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 15:44:09 UTC

The Henness Ridge lookout was constructed by the CCC in 1934, which showed the rustic style they built their lookout towers at the time. It is a three story redwood structure built on a granite rubble masonry foundation.

CCC Slide 10:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 17:19:40 UTC

Back in the 1920s skiing wasn't as popular as it was today since there weren't really any ski trails to go on but when Perry Merrill was put in charge of a CCC team he helped make a lot of ski trails which helped skiing become even more popular.

CCC Slide 11:

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Badger Pass Ski Resort was built in Yosemite by the CCC from 1938 and was finished in 1941.

CCC Slide 12:

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In 1934 the CCC added new cables to and posts to the Half Dome stairway, since the last time they got updated was in 1920 by the Sierra Club. They set up camp at the base of Half Dome but had to deal with crazy weather the whole time they were there.

CCC Slide 13:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 17:40:33 UTC

Up until the CCC was disbanded there were 9 camps that were set in Yosemite called the Cascade Camps, with the only thing remaining from the camp being an old chimney.

CCC Slide 14:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 17:41:54 UTC

When the CCC was in Yosemite they worked on springs in Yosemite to make sure they're safe and healthy to drink with one of them being Fern Springs. They planted a garden and set up logs for parking with it still being a popular spot to stop at till this day.

CCC Slide 15:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 17:57:34 UTC

The CCC helped contribute to Yosemite in lots of ways from building new viewing sites to making ski runs. In 1940 a stub camp was created at Ostrander Lake and was completed on October 26 of that year.

CCC Slide 16:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 18:02:49 UTC

Many of the young men who worked for the CCC took the skills they learned from it to further help them and their families later on in life, with some people today wishing to remember the skills that were learned at the CCC.

CCC Slide 17:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 18:26:11 UTC

The CCC helped the Bureau of Reclamation despite how much smaller the bureau was. They helped with tree planting, soil rehab and dealing with the land during the Drought Years of the Great Depression.

CCC Slide 18:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 18:37:33 UTC

Early Reclamation projects relied on farmers to repay the cost of water projects that benefited their crops but as the depression crushed farmers, the Reclamation Bureau turned to the CCC to build irrigation projects as an untapped federal agency.

CCC Slide 19:

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-09 18:42:47 UTC

The main reservoir projects occurred at the Shasta Dam site on the CA Central Valley Project, Grand Coulee Dam and Boulder Dam.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 1

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 17:55:22 UTC

During WW2 Yosemite and many other National Parks worked together to support the war effort with Wartime Park's Superintendent Frank A Kitteredge, a general from WW1, making Victory Gardens around the park for beef production.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 2

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 18:10:45 UTC

On April 1943 authority was granted to the military to set up some camps in Yosemite. It wasn't till December of 1943 that negotiations took place for a Aviation training camp that would begin in the summer.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 3

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 18:56:41 UTC

The Army in Yosemite dates back to October 1, 1890 when Yosemite National Park was established. Cavalry scouting parties were to be sent out to "prevent timber cutting, sheep herding, trespassing or spoliation in particular."

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 4

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 19:38:25 UTC

Buffalo Soldiers were segregated regiments of black soldiers who were sent Westward to explore and fight throughout the West, they got the nickname "Buffalo Soldier" from the Cheyenne and other plains Indians.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 5

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 19:38:36 UTC

A US Navy Hospital in Yosemite was commissioned in 1943 with the patients coming 11 days later from the Battle of Okinawa. They thought that being in scenic Yosemite would help the shell-shocked soldiers but it did the complete opposite by increasing their symptoms and making them claustrophobic.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 6

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-11 22:04:31 UTC

During the time of the hospitals operations around 65% of the people returned to duty with the rest being discharged. The most amount of patients at the hospital were 853 people with most of them being built up by the Navy.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 7

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-12 01:19:46 UTC

The only other military activity in Yosemite that happened during WW2 were plane crashes, on June 1943 a B-24 bomber crashed into Koip Peak with everyone on the plane dying and 2 other military planes crashing nearby in 1944.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 8

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-12 01:20:46 UTC

The 10th Mountain Division and Outdoor Sports are the most used division of the military since 9/11, a nickname it had gotten, they have been fighting outside threats since WW2 against Germany and once they returned home from WW2 they helped further improve outdoor sports across America.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 9

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-12 01:32:55 UTC

The 10th, the only combat division recruited by a civilian organization, also was the only unit that trained outdoorsmen, rock climbers and world-class skiers for a fight in the mountains. With most of the soldiers who came back from the war used their new skills to help make outdoor sports a more common thing.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 10

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-12 17:27:08 UTC

Thirty-eight 10th Mountain Division alumni are members of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame with Torger Tokle, the legendary ski jumper from Norway who was killed in action, but he’s in the hall alongside his brothers from the 10th. A Silver Star recipient Bill Bowerman also co-founded a tiny company called Blue Ribbon Sports, now known today as Nike.

WWII in the Sierra: Slide 11

rvargas20062020 — 2024-04-12 17:33:40 UTC

Paul Petzoldt, the accomplished climber who taught rock climbing and survival skills at Camp Hale, Colorado, founded the National Outdoor Leadership School in 1965. David Brower, helped write a manual division that was used to teach ski mountaineering, served as a lieutenant with the 10th in Italy. Even nylon rope is still used in countless military and civilian applications.