Siskiyou Sites

“The Klamath Reclamation Project owes much to the CCC enrollees of Camp Klamath (BR-41) and Camp Tule Lake (BR-20). Between 1935 and 1941 the enrollees’ efforts, under the supervision of the Bureau of Reclamation, resulted in an expansion of the land area irrigated by the Project, and thereby increased the agricultural output of the region. Enrollees at these camps regularly worked on building water control structures of timber and concrete, digging ditches, clearing weeds, and killing rodents. However, some of the projects they completed were far from routine and demanded advanced skills and technical expertise. They also responded to emergencies...

“The pine tree motif is characteristic of the CCC presence in the national forests, and was used for entrance signs at several Klamath National Forest campgrounds. One of them, Shafter, is located several miles south of Macdoel and Mount Hebron, on the road to Bray in northeast California. Shafter also has several Klamath stoves, designed on the forest by CCC foreman Robert Brown. Klamath stoves have a closed firebox instead of an open grill, to both maintain heat and lessen fire danger. The Klamath stove took several different forms as its popularity spread across the West, and CCC enrollees provided...