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Find CCC features in this park! During the Great Depression of the 1930s and early 1940s, the federal government sponsored the building of parks in an effort to get Americans back to work. The National Park Service, state governments and the Civilian Conservation Corps worked together to build parks for people across the United States. In public parks, every visitor can enjoy our natural and cultural treasures.

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www.flickr.com/groups/texasparkswildlife www.facebook.com/texasparksandwildlife DESIGNERS WERE INSPIRED BY DESIGNERS WERE INSPIRED BY HOW TO COMPOSE YOUR LOCAL HISTORY THE NATURAL WORLD PHOTOGRAPHS From TPWD Chief Photographer Earl IU Nottingham Follow the "rule of thirds" as you compose your photographs by positioning the most important subjects at or near the Geology-architects inspired by local intersection of the lines that divide the geological features replicated a cave opening image into thirds, both vertically and in the entrance sign for Longhorn Cavern horizontally. { ~ State Park. tosI Another way to add energy to your composition is to add naturally occurring Local history-architects used historical diagonal lines. Diagonals can be rivers, tree details in many buildings like the door and I I L branches, street curbs, fences, reclining hinges on the combination building at people - anything that isn't completely . horizontal or vertical. Many times, you can Mimicry-this cabin at create a diagonal from a vertical or 1111111 State Park sits on top of a cliff and the horizontal line just by tilting the camera silhouette mimics the cliff edge. T . ..

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Camouflage-designers used nearby resources (such as rocks and wood) to camouflage this bridge 442 Research-the CCC assisted with research at . By building it below the creek bank, the of sites with significant history and in Nite some cases rebuilt structures like the bridge is also hidden from view. mission at Goliad State Historic Park.

Cabin at Bastrop State Park. TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH OF A CCC The chimney sits on one vertical grid line STRUCTURE IN THIS PARK THAT ILLUSTRATES and the back roofline is on a horizontal THE 1930S DESIGN FEATURES OF third. The diagonal front roof runs from one NATIPRAI ISM. Low Silhouettes and Horizontals-by axis through the center section. mirroring the ground, the horizontal lines of the shelter helped minimize its visual impact. T E X A S S T A T E P A R K S

BUILDINGS ARE D CCC Photo ACCESSORIES TO NATURE Safari CIVILIA In the 1930s, park planners regarded buildings in parks as blemishes upon CONSF RATION Surprise!-park nature. Their organic designs tried to planners put benches, shelters, even turns in a trail to frame a beautiful view like hide structures in plain sight. the view from this Lookout at Davis Mountains From 1933 to 1942, National Park State Park. Service (NPS) architects and landscape architects designed parks for Texas in the rustic naturalism style.

Naturalism-or letting nature speak for itself by reducing man-made iw interruptions-informed every change } to the landscape. Designers regarded every building, picnic shelter, and sign U as an "infection" and the cure was nature. Find CCC features in To achieve harmony with the natural this park! environment, they created designs that K-X' 4L:i ' .i"..L"kw@ During the Great Depression of the used local building materials, horizontal 1930s and early 1940s, the federal lines, low silhouettes, time-honored government sponsored the building handcrafted construction techniques, of parks in an effort to get and native plants for landscaping. Arches-designers used arches to reduce the Americans back to work. The visual mass of structures like this window at Lake National Park Service, state Brownwood State Park. Look for arches in governments and the Civilian culverts and bridges as well like the bridges at Conservation Corps worked together EVERY PARK IS UNIQUE Blanco State Park and . to build parks for people across the United States. In public parks, every Can you find a similar shape, visitor can enjoy our natural and ) 2013 TPWD PWD BR P4000-04428(05/13) feature or building in this park? tn accordance with Texas State Depository Law. this publication is available at cultural treasures. State Pubications What makes it unique to THIS " teTexas Clearinghouse arid!r Texas Depository Libraries. TPWD receives federal assistance from the US. fish and Widlife Service and other federal agencies and is subject PARK? toTitle lIt the Civil Rgfts Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehablitatiov Act of 1973, Ti It of the Amernicans with Nsabikties Act of 1990, the Age Discrinination Act of 1975. Title tX of the Education Amnendments of 1972. and SHARE YOUR PHOTOS ON state anti-dscrinination laws whch prohibit discomination on the basis of race, color, nationa origin, age. sex or disability. Ifyou beheve that you have been discrirnrinated against inany TPWD prograrn, activity or facibty, or need more information, please contact Civil Rghts Coordinator rP"l" Access, U.S.Fish and Wi 'i'e Service, 4401 N Fairfax Drive. Mad Stop M8SP-4020, Arlington, VA 22203. www.flickr.com/groups/texasparkswildlife www.facebook.com/texasparksandwildlife