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 3 million unemployed young men during the century’s worst national economic depression and provided them with opportunities to learn lifetime skills which became careers; and

        WHEREAS, the efforts of these young men resulted in the planting of millions of trees; construction of lookout towers; construction of thousands of miles of telephone lines, roads and trails; the fighting of forest fires; and creation of new parks and upgrades to 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 marks the 74^th anniversary of the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2007, to be

CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS DAY

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 74^th 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 22^nd day of March in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE