Camp F-18 Savoy was part of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal relief program from 1933 to 1942 that gave jobless men work renovating abused lands. The Army built 48 two hundred man camps in South Dakota and provided food, clothing, medical care, pay, and programs of education, recreation, and religion for 23,709 war veterans and enrollees, who were single men aged 17 to 25 and sent $25 of their $30 wage to their families, while camps and work projects were supervised by another 2834 men. The Office of Indian Affairs also sponsored the CCC-ID for South Dakota tribes, housing 8405 men in youth boarding camps, home camps, and family camps. Camp F-18, whose work was supervised by the USDA Forest Service, helped renovate forests and build recreation areas through tree thinning, pruning and planting, fire prevention and suppression, rodent, disease and insect control, grazing land improvement, and recreation area development, and its enrollees lived in a tent camp. Incomplete records indicate it was a full-fledged camp in the summers of 1934 and 1935, was not in operation in the summers of 1936 and 1937, served as a sidecamp from Camp Roubaix in the winter of 1940-41, and may have been operating in mid-September 1941. It is believed that men from the camp developed Rough Lock Falls and Rod and Gun Camp and perhaps Timon Camp.