Day 32: I have one of our campground hosts to thank for pointing this bit of Park history out to me. The plaque is welded onto the side of one of the trash bins in Longmire Campground and reads, "Columbia Basin Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center United States Dept of the Interior Bureau of Reclamation." I'm not sure how the Bureau of Reclamation enters into the equation, but the CCC enlisted thousands of men to work on projects across the country during the Depression. Many of the stone walls along roadsides and trails in the Park were built by the CCC, as were a number of structures including backcountry ranger cabins. However, this is the most unusual evidence I've documented of the labor force's contribution to our great National Park.
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