Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-26
CCC YOUTHS IN
STATE STARTS
WINTER PLANS


in which fire fighting was mixed
with various kinds of conservation
activities awaits 5000 CCC enrollees
in so camps in the national forests
of California. According to re-
ports from u. S. Regional For
ester S. B. Snow, San Francisco.
the worst of the fire danger is
over for 1886. For the fourth year
hard fighting CCC boys have given
their aid to the regular forest
ranger forces to more than cut in
half the average losses from forest
fires in the national forests.
Settled in their winter camps un-
til next April for the eighth en-
rollment period the boys will carry
on more than 40 different kinds of
conservation activities in the ma
tioal forests. They will clear the
dead wood and logs from 600 miles
of roads to reduce haards from fire
next year; gather over 1000 pounds
of tree seed for nursery planting
and reforestation; control the raw
ages of the pine tree beetle on
5000 acres of forest, and assist in
the construction of eight concrete
and steel road bridges in four of
the national forests varying from
rs to 600 feet long. Three of the
bridges will be built in the Klamath
Forest, two in the Sequoia. one in
the Shasta and two in the Stanis-
lauS. The boys will also commence
of the debris dam rs
feet high on Caliente Creek. trib-
utary of the Santa Ynez river in
the Santa Barbara Forest. to pro-
tect the Gibraltar Reservoir from
silt.
In addition to their regular for
estry activities during the past en-
rollment period the CCC has made
contributions TO engineer
ing works constructed by the forest
service in the California national
forests in connection with water
storage and road construction. |
Working in small groups of from
Is to 25 they have assisted the |
technical personnel in the con-
'truction of bridges in the Eldor-
'do, klamath, Sierra and Trinity |
forests, five of which |
we're unusual for this class of labor. |
The most notable of these is the |
salyer bridge in the Trinity forest |
panning the Trinity river, 800 |
oct span with so foot steel beam
approaches 130 feet above the river
the first continuous truss bridge
n 10 in 6n
f this state. 1t opens up 35 square
niles of the national forest and
eplaceS a suspension bridge Some
# the other bridges on which the
'oyS assisted are the reinforced
oncrete girder bridge ON Rock
creek in the Elorado, a 430 foot
tructure at junction City on the
trinity forest, a 200 foot steel Sus-
ension at Somes Bar on the
Klamath and continuous concrete
girder bridge at Big
,reek on the Sierra forest.
Among the outstanding projects
during the past enroll
nent have been the Whitney Port
j road, cut for five miles through
old granite to Hunters Flat in
he Inyo forest. This shortens the
distance to Mt. Whitney. the top
f the U.S.A., but leaves the ma
estic crest Of the Sierra we'll pro-
ected by surrounding wilderness
rea. The thousand foot dam on
fud Creek in the Shasta forest,
ecently dedicated, divertS the flow
f mud and silt from the McCloud
nd Sacramento rivers, protects the
lands in the valley and
the usefulness of the state
lsh hatchery at Bird by diverting
he entire flow of the stream into
desilting basin and then spread
lg the waters where they will do
o harm. In the Santa Barbara
'orest the Mono debris dam of re-
lforced concrete. 240 feet long and
feet high, impounds 500 acre feet
f the waters of Mono Greek and
cts as storage for the silt and
chris washing from burned
'atershed that otherwise would fill
p the Gibraltar reservoir which
lpplies domestic water to the city
Santa Barbara.
Following their apprenticeships in
ne forestry and other varied con-
-ruction work in the national for
SITS, partial records returned to the
aOion21 foracfar ra,.aaI that +l,o |