Robt Tribute Traditional Cache

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Ekidokai: So long, farewell, goodbye.

The first legal power run has been an adventure that tops all others. The stories were so much fun to read.

Had no idea what I was really doing when I started putting this together. Set out 125 in an 20 hour period. Two days of putting them into the system and then all hell broke loose. I just wanted to set out a path into wild Maine just to show it off. I wanted people to have some fun and see the woods in an assessable area.

First day...

2000 emails, 6 for each cache published then a whole bunch of questions and comments, then the logs, oh so many logs. I read everyone, had to there was so many interesting things stuck in there that they demanded to be read. I had no idea.

I am not able to maintain the series, so a very fond farewell.

I thank you all from far and wide, you came to experience the adventure of a life time.

Thank you.

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Hidden : 6/11/2009
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Where does the CCC road get it's name?

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in March of 1933. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) is widely considered one of the most successful programs of the Depression Era in the United States. By March of 1933, 13,600,000 people were unemployed in the United States. Because of this emergency, President Roosevelt created the CCC only days after his inauguration.

The plan was to put 500,000 unemployed youths to work in forests, parks and public lands. It was essentially a peacetime army that worked to conserve the country's natural resources and provide employment for young men during the Great Depression. Rather than establishing a new bureaucracy, the President established this program within existing governmental departments.

Within the first few months, over 250,000 young men were enrolled. Eventually, the CCC enrolled about 3 million unemployed and unmarried men to work on projects including reforestation, construction of fire-observation towers, laying of telephone lines, and development of state parks.

In Maine, over 17,000 young men served in the CCC between 1933 and 1942. The persons eligible for employment in the CCC were unemployed, between the ages of 17 and 25 and came from families on relief. Each person was paid $30 a month, of which $25 was sent to his family and the $5 could be used for personal expenses. The government provided room, board, clothing and tools.

The CCC was responsible for many conservation projects. Although CCC projects were carried out in every state, the CCC carried out many notable projects in Maine. Projects were conducted in state and national parks and Maine forests. In Maine, many of the roads, parks and other facilities that we all enjoy today were built or improved by the CCC during the 1930s and early 1940s.

Some of the larger projects that the CCC conducted were:

Constructing roads and trails in Baxter State Park, Mt. Blue State Park, Rangeley State Park and Camden Hills State Park
Constructing roads and bridges in Acadia National Park
Constructing many segments of 286 miles of the Appalachian Trail in Maine
Building the Evans Notch Road from the town of Fryeburg to Gilead in the White Mountains National Forest
Constructing the lower portion of Capitol Park
Planting trees in Capitol Park and the Veterans Administration Facility at Togus

The CCC also carried out many forest-related projects including:

Building fire-observation towers, storehouses and access trails
Fighting forest fires
Conducting forest insect and disease control projects
Planting trees to reforest areas of Maine.

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