Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was an agency authorized by the United States government to hire unemployed young men for public conservation work. The corps was set up as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program in 1933. It provided training and employment. The CCC conserved and developed natural resources by such activities as planting trees, building dams, and fighting forest fires. More than 2 million men served in the corps before Congress abolished it in 1942. See also Conservation (The rise of the conservation movement) .
