Camp SCS-3, designated DPE-211 in 1934, was located in the city park of northeast Alcester. Company 2746 served there from August 3, 1934, to October 1, 1934, and again from June 27, 1935, to August 14, 1941, while Company 4725V served from August 15, 1941, to May 27, 1942. The Civilian Conservation Corps was a federal work-relief program during the Great Depression, and from 1933 to 1942 it provided work for 31,097 jobless men in South Dakota, including about 22,000 enrollees, about 1,700 veterans, 4,554 American Indians, and 2,834 supervisors. The U.S. Army provided 200-men camps, food, clothing, medical care and pay, along with educational, recreational and religious programs, while the Office of Indian Affairs provided similar services for units on Indian reservations. Work on private land under the Soil Erosion Service and Soil Conservation Service included soil and water conservation measures by enrollees in Company 2746 and World War One veterans in Company 4725V, who demonstrated terraces, pasture furrows, gully controls and contour farming to reduce run-off and erosion. They also planted shelterbelts, used strip farming and rough tillage to reduce wind erosion, and built stock dams to conserve water and improve grazing utilization. In 1937, the men planted 7,050 trees in Union County State Park and established a tree nursery at Vermillion. Tours showing the results aided the organization of conservation districts in Clay, Union, Bon Homme and Lincoln Counties.