Audrey Farm, 1933
Photograph by Department of Forestry, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Forestry Image Collection

Thousands of young men worked in Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) forest camps across the state. In addition to planting millions of trees on the state’s forestlands, they built fire towers, a forest fire control telephone network, recreational facilities, and many miles of roads in and around state forests. The work of the CCC crews had lasting effects on the state’s forest resources, and even today, many older tree plantings and permanent structures on the state’s forestlands can be traced back to CCC origins.