Editing Civilian Conservation Corps (section)

===Early years, 1933–1937===
[[File:Texas Park Road 4 CCC Map 1 edit.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2|A CCC map of the planned route of a parkway in Texas, drafted in 1934. The Corps worked in numerous parks throughout the state during the early 1930s, constructing everything from benches to highways.|alt=A blue-grey map of a road, covered with assorted lines]]

The legislation and mobilization of the program occurred quite rapidly. Roosevelt made his request to Congress on March 21, 1933; the legislation was submitted to Congress the same day; Congress passed it by voice vote on March 31; Roosevelt signed it the same day, then issued an executive order on April 5 creating the agency, appointing Fechner its director, and assigning War Department corps area commanders to begin enrollment. The first CCC enrollee was selected April 8, and lists of unemployed men were subsequently supplied by state and local welfare and relief agencies for immediate enrollment. On April 17, the first camp, [[NF-1, Camp Roosevelt]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ccclegacy.org/camp_roosevelt_history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201125643/http://www.ccclegacy.org/camp_roosevelt_history.htm |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |title=Camp Roosevelt, NF-1}}</ref> was established at [[George Washington National Forest]] near [[Luray, Virginia]]. On June 18, the first of 161 [[soil erosion]] control camps was opened in [[Clayton, Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Timeline. Surviving the Dust Bowl. American Experience . WGBH - PBS |website=[[PBS]] |access-date=March 2, 2012 |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/timeline/dustbowl/}}</ref> By July 1, 1933, there were 1,463 working camps with 250,000 junior enrollees 18–25 years of age; 28,000 veterans; 14,000 [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]]; and 25,000 adults in the Local Experienced Men (LEM) program.<ref>Ermentrout, p. 15</ref><ref name="Fechner">{{cite book|last=Fechner|first=Robert, Director|author-link=Robert Fechner|title=Pamphlet: Objectives and Results of the Civilian Conservation Corps Program|publisher=Civilian Conservation Corps|year=1938|location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref>