Based on historical document dated back to 1933, the city prepared to use five acres of city-controlled lands in the Pauma Valley near the intersection of Santa Ysabel Creeks for the establishment of the camp for the President’s Emergency Conservation Work Program. On March 31, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law an act creating the Emergency Conservation Work Program, better known as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). This program became one of the most popular and successful of Roosevelt's "New Deal" programs designed to bring pre-war America out of the Great Depression. Between 1933 and 1942, when the CCC program ended, a total of 2 million enrollees had worked in 192 camps in 94 National Park Service areas as well as 697 camps in 881 state, county, and municipal areas.

• 19330526 Doc283081 Approved Land Use for the CCC Camp