At the height of the Great Depression, a program took shape to provide work for unemployed young men that would teach them job skills, restore logged over forest, and take the concept of public parks from paper to reality. Just five days after taking office in 1933, President Roosevelt introduced a bill proposing the first of his New Deal programs and the most popular of them was the Civilian Conservation Corps. Although it lasted only 10 years, the boys of the Civilian Conservation Corps left a legacy in Minnesota that can still be seen today. BUILT TO LAST: THE LEGACY OF THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS IN MINNESOTA explores the immediate impact of this program as well as its importance to the ecological efforts of countries around the world.