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On The Trail: Transforming our National Parks

Millions of Americans across the country were out of work during the Great Depression, while there was a huge job that needed be completed in America's parks and public lands. And so President Franklin Roosevelt created the the Civilian Conservation Corps, the New Deal program that would eventually employ three million Americans. Conor Knighton reports on the federal program that transformed the lives of millions of Americans - and the country's natural treasures.

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