WHEREAS, the Civilian Conservation Corps was created on March 31, 1933, by the Administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as part of the Emergency Relief Act; and

        WHEREAS, the Civilian Conservation Corps provided useful conservation work for over three million unemployed young men during the century’s worst national economic depression and provided them with opportunities to learn life-time skills which became careers; and

        WHEREAS, the efforts of these young men resulted in the planting of millions of trees; the construction of lookout towers; the construction of thousands of miles of telephone lines, roads, and trails; the fighting of forest fires; the creation of new parks; and upgrading of existing parks and campgrounds; and

        WHEREAS, the accomplishment of this work benefited Idaho and brought satisfaction and pride to members of the Civilian Conservation Corps who participated in these programs and their efforts gained the respect of grateful Idahoans and Americans; and

        WHEREAS, March 31 will mark the 73rd anniversary of the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, DIRK KEMPTHORNE, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2006, to be

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in Idaho, and I encourage all Idahoans to express their appreciation and thanks to the alumni of the Civilian Conservation Corps as they celebrate their 73rd anniversary.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this third day of February in the year of our Lord two-thousand and six and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirtieth and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred sixteenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE