Camp Lapine managed a herd of milk cows producing milk and dairy products for camp use.  MCC permitted camps to deduct any production from gardens or livestock from the overall food allowance and this permitted the camp to purchase higher grade foods. 

The men published New Horizons from January through December 1943, with a Supplement published in January 1944.

Luke Birky, who entered Lapine from his home in Albany, Oregon, worked as “a tree faller and heavy equipment mechanic.”  Reflecting on his experience over fifty years later, he wrote “War fever was at a high pitch so we met some hostility from people in the outside community.  We were viewed as cowards and ‘yellow bellies’ or worse.  So there were many things we had to think through.”  Even though he served more than three years in three camps, he noted the significance of his experience. 

We had formal classes in free time and had learning opportunities in our work assignments . . . .We had close companions from different religious, ethnic and social backgrounds and so this was a learning experience too.  Dealing with different backgrounds provided fodder for long, productive “bull sessions”.  It is true we were “locked in” but this gave us the time and space to resolve differences as those occasions occurred.  Camp leadership was excellent. (“Detour . . . Main Highway”: Our CPS Stories pp. 6-8)

Both the director and the men felt their work to be very significant and expressed great disappointment when Selective Service took over the project and operated it as a government run camp (#128).  MCC felt that this camp was one of its most successful base camps.