In the 1930s, the Gallagher Civilian Conservation Corps widened and surfaced this road, built Scott Mountain Road, developed Hot Springs and Pine Flat Campgrounds, erected fences to control livestock grazing, fought fires, and built the Gallagher Flat Ranger Station in the Payette River drainage. At Gallagher Flat, the Civilian Conservation Corps helped shape the National Forest System as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's popular New Deal program responding to the Great Depression by employing and training young men to conserve and develop the nation's natural resources. Roosevelt created the CCC by executive order in 1933, when Gallagher Camp F-66 opened. In 1935, national CCC enrollment peaked at 500,000 men in 2,600 camps, and Gallagher Camp enrolled 200 men from New Jersey, Missouri, New York and Idaho. In 1937, Congress rejected a proposal for a permanent CCC, Gallagher Camp enrollment was reduced to 150 men, and more than 1,500 enrollees had been employed there since 1933. In 1939, as World War II began with the German invasion of Poland, the Gallagher Flat camp closed and was dismantled. In 1941, the U.S. entered World War II, and military service and the wartime economy produced full employment; one year later, the CCC program ended. The enrollees who lived on the flat below from 1933 to 1939 adopted the motto "We Can Take It!" and lived a camp life that resembled the military, beginning with reveille, washing, exercise, marching to the mess hall for breakfast, working all day, then returning for showers, flag retreat, and supper. For many enrollees ages 18 to 25, especially urban young men, this was a first trip away from home and a first trip into the rugged mountains of the American West. They earned $36.00 per month, sent $25.00 home to their families, and received three hot meals a day, housing, uniforms, and medical care. Gallagher Camp also offered academic and vocational classes including auto mechanics, surveying, carpentry, sheet metal working, photography, business law, journalism, and correspondence courses, while sports teams in the Pioneer League competed in basketball, baseball and boxing.