- City:
- Hawaii, Pohakuloa, HI
- Site Type:
- Forestry and Agriculture, CCC Camps
- New Deal Agencies:
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
- Started:
- 1933
- Completed:
- 1942
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps built a side camp at Pohakuloa on the Big Island. The CCC worked in forested areas in the vicinity of this camp, and their work typically included projects like tree planting; truck, foot and horse trail construction; construction of foot bridges; installation of fences; seed collection; erosion control and construction of check dams; building shelter houses; “elimination of undesirable animals” [presumably invasive species]; “eradication of exotic plants”; installation of pipe lines and telephone lines; camp ground development.
Source notes
Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1941, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942, p. 60. U.S. Department of the Interior, Annual Report of the Governor of Hawaii to the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1940, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1940, p. 55.Site originally submitted by Brent McKee on June 26, 2017.
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