"At Battle Mountain, we built roads and worked on a project called Cricket Control. Locusts had been destroying land that was used to raise cattle. It was our job to prevent this from happening." --Dominick Gadamowitz CCC members fought forest fires, built roads and fire breaks, planted trees, removed diseased trees, built dams to slow soil erosion, and fought insect infestations that threatened timber and crops. The Cricket Control project that Mr. Gadamowitz worked on was similar to the Wyoming Works Progress Administration project depicted in the photograph below.

Pest Eradication Location: Sundance, Wyoming Date: Unknown Agency: WPA Credits: Unknown Source: NARA (SPB) Enlarged Image Description: This is a close-up view of an oil trap set for Mormon Crickets by WPA workers. Note the metal barriers which define the bounds of an "avenue of death" for the Mormon Crickets.