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The effects that changes in vegetation have on soil carbon pools and nutrient availability are also difficult to evaluate. However, several models have been successful in predicting vegetation-soil nutrient relationships because they assume that such changes occur as a result of different rates of decomposition and nutrient release from leaf litter of different taxa 50, 60), Such predictions could be tested and the models refined or parameterized for new taxa by measuring soil nutrient availability and respiration in stands of different species on the same soil type. For example, fifty years ago the U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) established such stands as species trial plots measurements in some indicate large differences in soil nutrient availability (48), Further measurements in these stands would now occur at the same time-scale at which we expect the feedback between species replacement and soil processes to occur. 

Often anecdotal evidence is received by a state s environmental office. Nevertheless, the military will not normally accept the statements of a retired employee or resident that an event requiring remediation occurred years ago. This is a good place to use archival research. For example, in February 1993 a phone call was made by a Mr. Ian MacFee to the District of Columbia alleging that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buried French 75-mm mustard gas shells in 14 pits in the District of Columbia. The caller stated that he worked for a Ft. Wray Noel. 

Once the decision to dispose of ordnance is made, it seems that recordkeeping ends. Still, clues can be found. For example. Fort Meyer in Virginia had two 75-mm batteries in World War I. The Civilian Conservation Corps supposedly buried two pits of ordnance at an adjoining facility, which had no record of having ordnance, in 1935. That is just when the 75-mm was being phased out. 

Report of the Burial of Shells by the Civilian Conservation Corps... 

The District of Columbia Department of Health, Environmental Health Administration received information from a resident of Spring Valley consisting of, among other things, a February 25, 1993, memorandum of a phone call from one Ian MacFee to the Mayor s Office of Constituent Services alleging that the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) buried munitions in 14 pits at the AUES. 

District of Columbia s Draft Comments on the Corps of Engineers letter dated March 20, 1995, detailing its Investigation into the Reported Munitions Burial by the Civilian Conservation Corps at Spring Valley ... 

The Mayor s Office of Constituent Services received a phone call in 1993 from an Ian MacFee indicating that he participated in the burial of 14 pits of mustard gas shells at the AUES while working for the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), presumably in the 1930s. MacFee made this call while he was waiting for an airplane to take him to Aberdeen, Scotland, where he was moving. 

During those first few days the CWS established several supply points in addition to the depot and, with the help of a Civilian Conservation Corps company, completed the issue of service masks. McMillin also put into operation a reconditioned impregnating plant, a chloride of lime production plant, and a toxic land mine and shellfilling plant, all of which had been refurbished in the month before the attack. One Reserve officer at once began converting a plant of the Pacific Guano and Fertilizer Company, of which he had been an employee, to the production of bleach. 

In creating the Civilian Conservation Corps, we are Icilling two birds with one stone. We are clearly enhancing the value of our natural resources. And, at the same time, we are relieving an insatiable amount of actual distress. 

Maher, N. (2008). Nature s new deal The civilian conservation corps and the roots of the American environmental movement. Oxford Oxford University Press. 

PBS (2009). The Civilian Conservation Corps (progrtim transcript). Retrieved from http //www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/ccc/transcript/... 

Western Kentucky University Library. (2010). Project Civilian conservation corps at mammoth cave national park. Bowling Green, KY. Retrieved from http //www.wku.edu/Library/nps/ccc/ about.html... 

This chapter looks at engineering by examining top-down policy prescriptions that have influenced land-use/cover change in the United States. We examine how conservation initiatives incorporated as components of major social policy prescriptions, such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), the Soil Bank Program, and the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), have influenced forest-cover change. Our... 

Paige, J. C. (1985). The civilian conservation corps and the national park service, 1933-1942. An administrative history. Washington, DC National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 5 April 2009, from http //www.nps. go v/history/history/onlinejbooks/ccc/index.htm. 

Salmond, J. A. (1967). The civilian conservation corps 1933-1942. A new deal case study. Durham, NC Duke University Press. 

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