A typical day at the Stapp Civilian Conservation Corps camp began with reveille at 4:30 am, breakfast at 5:30, and work by 6:00. The day's work included crushing rocks, clearing and graveling roads, and constructing buildings and rock walls, while occasional fires in the forest or along the train tracks interrupted labor long enough to extinguish the blaze. Supper was served at 4:00 pm and lights were out by 8:30. In addition to hard work and hot meals, the Civilian Conservation Corps provided enrollees with clothes, medical services, and an education. Enrollees earned $30.00 a month, generally keeping $5.00 for spending and sending the rest home to their families. The camp operated from 1934 to 1941 on the site previously occupied by the Buschow Lumber Company, and enrollees replanted many acres of forest that had been devastated by the company's timber cutting practices. In retrospect, the program's most valuable product may have been the self-esteem it gave the nation's young men.