Survival: Extant

With Proclamation 2175, June 15, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Bienville National Forest in Mississippi.  This proclamation was part of FDR’s overall effort to create more national forests in the eastern United States. As with other national forests, the goal of Bienville was “to produce the greatest amount of good for the most people… Fire protection gives the timber a chance to grow so as to produce a merchantable crop; trees are being planted where former logging practise (sic) did not leave the land in a condition to re-seed itself; grazing will be regulated so as to coordinate...

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) "Built two earthen dams to flood marshlands and provide breeding and feeding habitat for waterfowl and animals. Also performed a wildlife census, completed winter feedingprojects and stocked lakes."

Declared in 1909 the Gran Quivira National Monument, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) repaired and stabilized this 17th century site between 1934 and 1937, renaming it the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed facilities at the Gum Springs Recreation Area, located in Kisatchie National Forest. The CCC also planted trees.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed stone buildings and bridges and planted thousands of trees.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) did reforestation and development on the Shimek State Forest, located on abandoned farm land near Farmington, Iowa.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) reforested "20,000 acres of drifting sand hills and expanded Bessey Forest Nursery producing 30 million saplings for reforestation." The CCC also "constructed a public campground and picnic area, shelter house, bath houses, and a swimming pool in the park."

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed this lake in Mitchell, South Dakota.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed a stone shelter here in 1936. The Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Site commemorates the Mandan tribe, an agricultural people in the Missouri Valley.

Russian-born sculptor Louis Zack created this bust of James Russell Lowell, the school's namesake, in 1940, with funding from the Work Projects Administration Arts Project (WPAAP). Carved from a single block of brown marble, "the bust rests on a black terrazzo base set onto a wooden podium. The black base is engraved on three sides: the left side lists the artist’s name and the date, the front states the name of the person depicted “James Russell Lowell”, and the right side names the Agency commissioning the work “WPA/So. Calif. Art Project” (LBUSD WPA Artwork Collections Assessment Guidelines Survey, p....