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Corp8 and National. Industrial Recovery Administration crews. Actually, Mr. Buck did issue directives instructing that the recommended men be hired as positions became available. The difficulty was that where not nearly enough supervisory positions available to place the men recommended by the Congressmen. This situation was explained but it failed to completely satisr all members of the delegation. In the meantime, the Regional Forester recommended my transfer to the Willamette National Forest as Supervisor which met with my enthusiastic approval. P. T. (Pat) Thompson, the incumbent Supervisor, was being transferred and. promoted to Assistant Regional Forester in Region 1. Pat was an easy going man to follow and the public attitude toward the Forest Service was very favorable in the Willamatte area. There were no outstanding controversies such as we had experienced on the Olympic in the national park dispute. In 1938 the Willamette had five ranger districts; Oakridge, West Boundary, McKenzie Bridge, Cascadia and Detroit. District Rangers were C. B. McFarland, Fred Briem, Ray Engles, H. C. (Bud) Burgess, and Glen Charlton, respectively. In 1933 the Cascade and the Santiani National Forests had been combined and renamed the Willamatte National Forest. At the time of my assignment the only timber management activity was the large timber sale of the Westfir Lumber Company on the North Fork of the Willamette. This company had a sawmill located above the confluence of the Middle Fork and the North Fork of the Willamette River. The Company owned practically no timber arid was dependent entirely on timber purchased from the Forest Service. In 1938 a large sale was made to this Company on the North Fork of the Willamette River that included an area known as Christy Flat. This area because of its topography, lent itself to tractor and truck logging. A substantial part of the area was designated to be selectively marked. The stand was largely decadent old growth Douglas Fir, which in the opinion of Staff Forester John Hough and myself, was not suited to this type of silviculture. After some preliminary discussion with the purchaser. the area designated for such treatment was reduced. The remainder of the sale was cut am provided in the sale agreement which resulted in removing the less defective trees and leaving those of lesser value for removal sometime in the indefinite future. The result was a high grading operation but because of the marginal character of the silvicultural experiment, it appeared about the only way to proceed. Also the brush disposal phase presented a very difficult problem which we never did solve to our satisfaction. One may ask why the local forest administration allowed high grading. This sale was made at a time when the Region was anxious to deteine if selective logging in Douglas Fir was feasible. (This is as far as Ray got with his narrative, but it is obvious that Douglas Fir does not have the proper characteristics to be managed as uneven aged stands. His account was to illustrate the problems the Forest had and how they tried to resolve a difficult set of problems that had not been encountered on the Willamette previously. There does not seem to be much doubt as to the conclusion Ray was building up to. The translater of Ray's long hand account can add the following from his own experience. In 1938 the Westfir Lumber Company had an annual cut of about 30MM a year. In 1940, the Mill City Manufacturing Company initiated a 25MM a year sale in Blowout Creek, a major tributary of the North Fork of the Santiam River between Mill City and Detroit. This at the time of Pearl larbor, the total cut on the Willamette was only about 55 MM a year. More recent historians are better equipped to take it from there.)
The translator of Ray's account wishes to acknowledge with thanks the help of Lloyd Olson in going over the initial draft to correct the spelling o the names of persons and places and. for his help in contacting Les Colvill and others for missing information. Also thanks to John Bruckart for his help àoncerning the names of the early settlers in the Darrington area. The parts Lloyd Olson had in the story have been introduced in the hopes others will come forth with valuable information they have. Allan R. Cochran must have anticipated the article for he initiated in the April 1.980 newsletter what we hope will be only the first of many such recollections for the benefit of Region 6 and. all the Forest Service. I also want to thank Clyde uam, Rex Wakefield and Jack Smith for the information they supplied at my request concerning Ray's tenure on the Willamette. Since it would not have been the story as written by Ray, I decided it best to stop his memoirs where he did. I will, however return their material to the Willa,xuette in the hopes it can be made a part of that forests history. Finally, I am indebted to the Director of the Pacific Southwest Forest and Range bcperiment Station and his organization for final proof reading and providing copies to appropriate Forest Service offices and organizations and to the children of Ray and Fay Bruckart. - 10 - Joseph L Elliott September Li., 1.980
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Mr. Carroll E. Brown 300 Lumen Road
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Dear Carroll: UNITED STATES DEPARTM
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1980 ACTIVITY REPORT OF THE PACIFIC
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LOWELL W. ASH 1903 - 1980 Lowell W.
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HARRY R. (MIcKEY) ELLIO 1887 - 1980
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