CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS FIGHTS EROSION, THE Part 1

Description

Shows samples of badly eroded farm land in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, and illustrates how Civilian Conservation Corps units are combatting soil erosion. CCC members construct check dams in gullies, build wings around the gullies, plant black locust seedlings and honeysuckles along the banks, fill the gullies with hay and brush, and dynamite the edges of the gullies to level the terrain.

Collection

Records of the Extension Service

Series

Motion Picture Films