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- CALIFORNIA CONSERVATION CORPS
- Placer Fire Center, Auburn, CA
- 1980-1981
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- Early morning PT on the handball court at Placer Fire Center
- Photo by Andy Reed circa 1980
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- Joe Hawkins and Scotty Powell -
- Lisa says "Scotty don't look too happy!"
- Photo by Lisa Leiber circa 1980
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- Ron Langton, Joe Hawkins, Jose Verceles
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- It really WAS low pay!
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- NEWS FLASH!
- The California Conservation Corps has started a
newsletter/blog in 2008.
- It's online for all to see.
- Check it out!
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- Dear Friends of the CCC,
The first edition of the California Conservation Corps' 2008 newsletter/blog, HARDCORPS
is online.
- Rather than just sending out information we wanted to create an interactive experience
for not only our friends and supporters, but for the staff and corpsmembers as well.
- We invite all of you to join with us in reading, commenting and sharing the Corps
experience.
- Whether you're a corpsmember, former corpsmember, staff member, parent, friend -- we
want to let you know what we're doing and hear from you as well.
If you like what you see please email us and let us know. hardcorps@ccc.ca.gov
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- Where the CCC's came from -
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- The
California Department of Forestry first implemented fire crews in 1949 using adult male
inmates when a tent camp operation was established at the Minewawa Camp in southern
San Diego
County
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a few years, approximately 12 such CDF-CDC camps existed throughout California
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- Incident
commanders or “fire bosses” as they were then called, soon realized how valuable
fire crews could be to the total wildland fire suppression chore.
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- In the
early seventies, Governor Ronald Reagan instituted the California Ecology Corps.
The Corps were an alternative for young men who were conscientious objectors of the
Vietnam War.
- The
CDF-Ecology Corps program lasted from 1973 through 1977.
- Governor
Edmund G. Brown, Jr. eliminated the Ecology Corps, replacing it with the CCC's, California
’s
new version of the earlier federal Civilian Conservation Corps.
- At its
peak in the late seventies and early 80's there were eight CDF-CCC Fire Centers.
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- Joe Hawkins
- Placer Fire Center
- Crew 1 and Crew 3
- May 1980 - October 1981
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- I have to thank Andy Reed reedfamily@yahoo.com for letting me use his
most excellent pictures for my web site.
- It's funny that 20 years ago when Andy was bugging everyone with the camp camera
- I never thought that I would find a use for these pictures. Some of them have
- kick started brain cells that I thought were long killed off by beer...
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- Last updated on 28 Jan, 2009
