Camp BF-1, also designated DSE-204 and shown in a 1934 annual as DSE-209, stood on the edge of Lake Andes and operated in several periods between 1933 and 1935. The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal relief program during 1933-1942, gave jobless men work restoring damaged land. In South Dakota, the Army built 48 camps for 200 men each and provided food, clothing, medical care, pay, and educational, recreational, and religious programs for 23,709 war veterans and other enrollees, while 2,834 other men supervised camps and projects. The Office of Indian Affairs also sponsored the CCC-ID for South Dakota tribes, housing 8,405 men in youth boarding camps, home camps, and family camps. Records for this camp are incomplete, but other 1933 reports indicate that it opened about July 1 and closed about October 1. In 1934 it was one of 13 drought-relief camps organized to address severe drought and dust storms. The camp consisted of a 40 x 100 foot building and tents for 290 South Dakota World War I veterans, who built diversions to carry overflow from creeks into the north side of Lake Andes and channels to drain its overflow to the river. In 1935 the camp reopened as Camp BF-1 to develop a waterfowl refuge that is now the Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge.