CCC PROJECTS THEN AND PROJECT IDEAS AFTER REACTIVATION
I propose to create a civilian conservation
corps to be used in forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar
projects . . .
More important, however, than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of
such work."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, March21, 1933
*Forestry*
Prerequesites
All enrollees would be trained in wildland fire suppression.
All would be trained to perform controlled burning.
All enrollees
would be trained to restore forest and grasslands burned by fires.
Trail Work
National Forest or National Park trails throughout the United States
where probably built by the 20ty Century CCC
and need
to be restored and develop new trails.
Habitat
Enhancement
Landscape,
seed, remove weeds, and plant trees for habitat or
for
reforestation with mixed hardwood and soft wood species.
Biological
Research
Enrollee
work crews would work side by side with scientists
to
help with biological inventories, forest
measurements, fish implants,
and data collection for short or long-term
research projects.
*Prevention of soil erosion*
HABITAT ENHANCEMENT
Landscape, seed, remove weeds, and provide preventive measures
against soil erosion of agricultural and grazing
lands.
Preventing soil erosion as in the
dust bowls
of the past as climate change occurs.
*Flood Control*
Conservation and Watershed Restoration
Preserve habitat on projects that range from stream bank stabilization, native
seed collection, to planting trees.
Prepare
our shores and waterways for eventual sea level rise.
Similar guidelines set in the Roosevelt Administration
on the previous page as a . . . civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, the prevention
of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects . . . but here are new ideas to be used....
NEW
CCC PROJECTS ?
National and Community Service
Repair and build structures,
campgrounds, picnic areas and shelters on
our public lands.
( Work crews could provide labor and coordinate labor in projects
with non-profits as Habitat for Humanity
to construct low-income housing.)
Historical Restoration and Preservation
Conservation-restoration, introducing enrollees to the profession devoted
to the preservation
of cultural property as restoring
historic buildings
to performing Archeoalogical excavations. CCC enrolless would take pride
in learning history while working to
preserve our past.
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| wind turbines on our seas and shores Photo: GETTY |
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| Install solar panels on our public lands |
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Solar Energy Installation on our Public Lands
CCC enrollees would receive training to install and
maintain a variety of
solar alternative
energy products such as wind generators, tidal generators and photvoltaic cells units
on our public lands, shores, sea and waterways .
Hazardous
Waste Disposal
They would be equipped to perform those duties on our public and adjacent lands and
waters.
Fly-ash disposal and mountain top and strip mining clean-up and
reclamation would require training
in
using heavy equipment. Clean-up could involve workcrews performing tasks
using phytoremediation in waste disposal on our public and adjacent land and watersheds. contaminated soils, water or air with plants able to contain, degrade or and various other
contaminants, from the media that contain them.)
CCC Public Work Projects from Low to Hi Tech
Enrollees would travel, work,
earn, learn to live together as they perform low-tech work projects from planting trees to perform high-tech jobs installing
and maintaining wind turbines and solar cells. They would benefit in real time green job experience working in the outdoors
on our nation's public lands (as our national parks and forests) and adjacent private lands, shores, and waterways.
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| CCC workers could build wind turbines on green landscape |
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| 800px-Mafate Marla solar panel |
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REMEMBER TO CALL, FAX, OR POST A LETTER to your members of Congress
or
to Congressional Committees to Reactivate the
CCC at (202) 224-3121.
Then phone and leave your message on the President's Comment Line at (202) 546-1111.
Or email http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/ - Send to WH Attention: :"Jobs Advisory Group".
I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to
be used in forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar
projects . . .
More important, however, than the material gains from their labors will be the moral and spiritual value of
such work."
Franklin D. Roosevelt, March21, 1933
