IDAHO
From 1933 to 1942, the Civilian Conservation Corps worked across Idaho. What they left behind is still here. We are picking the work back up.
THE WORK IS STILL STANDING.
Idaho had dozens of CCC camps in some of the most remote country the corps worked in. Enrollees built Heyburn State Park, much of Farragut, and the early infrastructure at Craters of the Moon National Monument. CCC crews cut fire trails through the Sawtooth, the Frank Church-River of No Return, and the Bitterroot. They fought the 1934 Pete King fire and others, planted millions of trees in burned-over country, and built fire lookouts that operated into the 1970s.
CAPABLE HANDS. HONEST WORK.
Idaho remembers what was built by people willing to do it.
A COLLECTIVE OF BUILDERS.
The CCC Boys corps is based in Colleton County, South Carolina. Justin and Jeremy Shearer and their cousin Joe Nettles, grandsons of Joseph Connelly, are building it from home. We do hurricane prep along the coast, shingle recycling out of the Columbia metro, marine apprenticeships in Walterboro, and a software portfolio with AI as the partner. The corps is worker-owned: members draw a steady wage first, then operating costs, then runway, then surplus to the people who made it happen. Not shareholders.
South Carolina is the first chapter. Other states are next, as builders in those places raise their hands. The playbook, curriculum, kit specs, and operating model are all open source under Creative Commons. Anyone can use them. Federated branches share the central infrastructure (a stablecoin-native neobank, a shared apprentice curriculum, a brand built by everyone) but operate locally. No fees. No buy-in. You are a branch, not a franchise.
A CCC BOYS IDAHO BRANCH?
We're building the framework, the technology, the apprenticeship curriculum, and the playbook out in the open. As Idaho-rooted builders raise their hands, branches form. If this resonates and you'd like to help bring a CCC Boys branch to Idaho, write us.
WRITE THE CORPS join@cccboys.com