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Language
English
Abstract
A scrapbook of the Civilian Conservation Corps - Soil Conservation Service kept by Ivan C. Owens, an agriculture extension
agent and a soil erosion expert who became a soil conservation officer in charge of control projects. He headed area, district
and state conservation offices for the U. S. Department of Agriculture in West Virginia. It contains clippings about the voluntary
establishment by election of soil conservation districts formed by in-state farmers. Also there are clippings about the Civilian
Conservation Corps and their camps located in the state and about the soil erosion abatement and reforestation projects of
the CCC in West Virginia.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Civilian Conservation Corps, Scrapbook by Ivan C. Owens, A&M 2788, West
Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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