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0 continually growing public inter -est in active pursuits in open spaces. Related to outdoor recreation were numerous programs to give city dwellers, especially children and youth. opportunities for healthful exercise, sports participation, and various arts and crafts programs. All these needs might be met with sweeping plans for park development, which figured in a number of early New Deal programs. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) provided for employment on many such projects at state and local levels, including St. Joseph County. Among the most comprehensive solutions the New Deal offered was the Civilian Conservation Corps. which shored up the earliest of the New Deal programs; its dual mission consisted of getting jobless youth off the streets and conserving and restor- ing the nation's natural resources.' On March 21, 1933, President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress proposing "to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion. flood control, and similar projects. . . . More important, however. than the material gains, will be the moral and spiritual value of such I The papers of FDR pertaining to conservation have been compiled into two volumes by Edgar D. Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Hyde Park: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957). See also John C. Paige, The Civilian Conservation Coros and the National Park Service, 1933-1942: An. Administrative History (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985), 3-6, and A.L. Riesch-Oweh, Conservation Under FDR. (New York: Praeger Books, 1983). nationwide conservation movement and addressed the crucial is problem of unemployment at the same time. The CCC wasamong the earliest of the New Deal programs; its dual mission consisted of getting jobless youth off the streets and conserving and restor- ing the nation's natural resources.' On March 21, 1933, President Roosevelt sent a message to Congress proposing "to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work, not interfering with normal employment, and confining itself to forestry, the prevention of soil erosion. flood control, and similar projects. . . . More important, however. than the material gains, will be the moral and spiritual value of such I The papers of FDR pertaining to conservation have been compiled into two volumes by Edgar D. Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945 (Hyde Park: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, 1957). See also John C. Paige, The Civilian Conservation Coros and the National Park Service, 1933-1942: An. Administrative History (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1985), 3-6, and A.L. Riesch-Oweh, Conservation Under FDR. (New York: Praeger Books, 1983).