Typical CCC stream improvement project on Hobble Creek, Uinta National Forest, 1935. Utah State Historical Society photograph. (K. D. Swan)
Reclamation Work of the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942 BY K E N N E T H W . BALDRIDGE
of the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933 gave X a major boost to the cause of reclamation in Utah. Projects that had H E ESTABLISHMENT
long been planned by the Departments of Agriculture and Interior were finally consummated with an input of financial and labor resources sufficient to spell the difference between demise and fruition. Dr. Baldridge is associate professor of history at Church College of Hawaii.
