Carl R. Dion papers 1928-1992 1928-1966

United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Consolidated Chippewa Agency

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Dion, Carl R., 1914-1993

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Carl R. Dion was born in Minnesota, where he lived until he was 34. He became interested in forest conservation at the age of ten, when a tree-planting project prompted him to contact Willard Van Name of the American Museum of Natural History. Van Name took Dion with him on expeditions to photograph old growth forest in Yosemite National Park (1931) and what would become Olympic National Park (1932). Dion graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1938 with a B.S. in Forestry and a minor in C...

Van Name, Willard G. (Willard Gibbs), 1872-1959

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...