Collide-a-scape » Collide-a-scape >> Posts in the civilian conservation corps category http://www.collide-a-scape.com where nature and culture meet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:17:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Are We There Yet? http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/05/are-we-there-yet/ http://www.collide-a-scape.com/2009/03/05/are-we-there-yet/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:13:03 +0000 Keith Kloor http://www.collide-a-scape.com/?p=246 This book review pays tribute to the Civilian Conservation Corps. Westerners–particularly Coloradans–might be surprised to learn that their favorite hiking trails and scenic drives owes to this depression era-program.

As Kurt Repanshek over at National Parks Traveler writes, the $920 million carved out in the stimulus package for National Park improvements is a “nice chunk of change.” But it also

pales when compared to the $2.25 billion that the House of Representatives, under the urging of Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Washington, inserted into its version of the bill, and falls far, far shy of the estimated $9 billion maintenance backlog carried by the National Park Service.

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