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During the Great Depression with millions of Americans out of work, then President Franklin

Delano Roosevelt created one of the most celebrated public plans in U.S. history.

In magnificent natural beauty of the American national parks have gone many companies of the

civilian conservation corps to further projects which will guard this wealth of beauty against

destruction by men and nature.

The civilian conservation corps, the Biden administration is trying to bring a version

of it back, but in this case to help in the fight against climate change.

On today's episode, a story from NPR's White House correspondent Scott Detro in Washington

and National Desk Correspondent Nathan Roth in Montana.

They explain how a civilian climate corps might work.

Nearly a hundred years since a creation of the civilian conservation corps, much of its

legacy is still being put to use.

Tom Fordwood is the assistant manager of Lewis and Clark County.

The veteran state park in West Central Montana.

The tunnel is big.

You could walk down it comfortably until the passage opens into a massive dark cave where

the air is heavy with a chilly humidity.

This cave Fordwood says was discovered by a member of the conservation corps who decided

to do a little non-sanctioned exploring.

It's by far the largest room we know of in the cave system.

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