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During the short period that I was assigned to the Regional Office,
I had the opportunity to work closely with Regional Forester C. J. Buck
on problems relating to the selection of supervisory personnel for the
CCC Camps. At the time the program started, the Forest Service had a
free hand in the selection of supervisory personnel for the camps. After
the program had been in operation for several months, state and county
political organizations became aware that these were pretty well paid
jobs. In the CCC program, the same pressures developed among some congressmen
and when openings occured, they requested the Forest Service
fill the positions with men they recommended. The Forest Service had
no choice but to abide by these requests. However, some .mbers of the
congressional delegation from Washington complained that the Regional
Forester, Mr. Buck, was not cooperating in placing the men they recommended
for the CCC supervisory jobs.
In an effort to explain to the congressmen his position in selecting
supervisory personnel and his desire to cooperate with them, Mr. Buck
decided to make a swing through the State of Washington to contact members
of the Washington delegation. This was in the fall of 1935 and he asked
that I accompany him because of my knowledge of the CCC program and the
selection of the supervisory personnel. Our interviews with the congressmen
and one senator were quite friendly and most were reasonably satisfied.
However, at this time, the CCC program was being reduced and few
jobs were available and this fact did not make the congressmen too happy.
The staff position in the Division of Engineering was not too satisfying
as far as I was concerned. I told Jim Franklin, Chief of the
Division of Engineering, and the Regional Forester, of my desire to
return to National Forest administration and in November, 1935, I was
assigned as Supervisor of the Olympic Forest to fill the position of
H.. L. Plumb, who was being transferred to the Regional Office as
Assistant Regional Forester in charge of State and Private Forestry.
(On November 1., 1935, when Ray returned to the Olympic as Supervisor
the following were year-long personneli L. L. Colvill, Assistant Forest
Supervisor; E. J. Hanzlik, Associate Forester; Paul. H. Logan, Lumberman;
Arthur E. Glover, Associate Engineer; L. D. Blodgett, Ranger, timber
sales; Christian N. Skaar, Ranger Staff; Clarence Adams, Administrative
Assistant; Julia Lee and Helen Engel, Clerks.
District Rangers were;
Port Angeles District, Sanford Floe, W. D. Bryon, Assistant; lwah District,
LeRoy Olander; Quilcene District, M. J. Mapes, J. R. Blake, Assistant;
Hoodsport District, John Rough; Quinault District, J.W. Fulton; Simpson
Logging Company Sale, .Ralph Hiligoss and Denny Ahi. - L.R. Olson)
I was happy with my assignment to the Olympic, having spent about
three years on the Forest as Assistant Forest Supervisor. However, I had
not anticipated the controversy that was developing between the Forest
Service and the National Park Service and their supporters over a proposal
to create a National Park as set forth in a House of Representative
bill introduced by Congressman Waigren. There was a National Monument
in the central part of the Forest that included Mt. Olympia, that involved
about 300,000 acres. The Monument was created in about 1906 primarily
for the preservation of the large number of Roosevelt Elk that made their
home in the Olympics. The Forest Service had always administered the land
within the Monument until 1.933 when all monuments on most public lands
were transferred to the National Park Service for administration. The
Park Service immediately established a monument headquarters in Port
Angeles. Preston Racy, a very personable Park Ranger from the Mt.Rainier