An Outdoor Army: The CCC in Michigan with Historian Hillary Pine

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Education

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Adults, Everyone

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In the 1930s, 100,000 men from the Civilian Conservation Corps occupied more than 120 camps throughout the state. They fought forest fires, built state parks, and planted 484 million trees. Join Hillary Pine, Historian with the Michigan DNR and Michigan History Center, to learn how this Great Depression-era program transformed our landscape and natural resources in ways that can still be seen today.