The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42

Camp Wyeth was originally established and operated in the CCC's first enrollment period during the summer of 1933.... Carroll E. Brown, a locally enrolled foreman at the camp, noted Camp Wyeth was located about 5 miles east of Cascade Locks. ... In October 1933, F-7 closed for the winter... Camp F-7 reopened in the spring of 1935 as Camp Cascade Locks.

Camp F-7, Wyeth, and Camp F-11, Zigzag, were occupied for the longest periods. Both began operating in the first enrollment period. Camp F-7 was abandoned in November 1941, and F-11 closed in 1942 at the end of the CCC program. In February 1936, when the Roosevelt Administration was considering a severe reduction in CCC camps across the country, Oregon's Governor Charles H. Martin made a personal plea to the president. He asked that Oregon be allowed to keep all of its camps.

Camp F-7 was abandoned on November 16, 1941. It's rigid-style buildings were left in Forest service custody.

Obviously, this camp remains under federal jurisdiction to this day, though nothing remains of the original buildings used by the CCC and, later, the CPS.

Links

Google Books: The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1986

Volume 395 of FS (United States. Forest Service)

https://books.google.com/books?id=f0qHwwF4V5wC

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