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Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest (Agency : U.S.)

 Organization

Dates

  • Usage: 2005-present
  • Usage: Used until 2004 - 2004

Biography

Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest Web site, May 10, 2005 home page (USDA Forest Service; Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest; The previously separate Rogue River and Siskiyou National Forests and their nine ranger district offices were administratively combined in 2004. The Supervisor's Office is in Medford, OR.)

Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:

Huckleberry Road Blowdown, 1963

 Item — Case 01: [Barcode: M041:01], Object: 102
Identifier: MSS041:06.05.102
Scope and Contents

This black and white map was prepared by the Union Creek Ranger District. It shows the locations of timber sale areas.

Dates: 1963

Instructions to Permittees, Grazing Allotments

 Digital Image
Identifier: http://cdm16085.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16085coll18/id/4480
Dates: 1964-1965

Instructions to Permittees, Grazing Allotments, 1964

 File — Box 04: Series MSS019:D; Series MSS019:E [Barcode: 35138008116037], Folder: 20
Identifier: MSS019:E.03
Scope and Contents

E-6 Applegate Ranger District "Instructions to Permittees, Grazing Allotments," Star Ranger Station, Oregon (29p.) A daily diary of range improvement work, by L. Offenbacher, Fred Straube, Louis Straube, and others. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

Dates: 1964

Issues of Crater and Rogue River National Forest newsletters, 1909-1968

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS019:M
Scope and Contents

Issues of Crater and Rogue River National Forest newsletters, written by and for Forest Service employees. The series includes more recent in-house news updates, Forest Leadership team meeting notes, and similar items.

Dates: 1909-1968

Issues of The Ranger, and Six Twenty-Six, 1916-1940

 File — Box 10: Series MSS019:M; Series MSS019:O [Barcode: 35138008116094], Folder: 05
Identifier: MSS019:M.09
Scope and Contents

M-12 File includes one issue of "The Ranger," volume 1, no. 1, January 1923. Also included are several issues of "Six Twenty-Six" spanning December 1916 through July 1940.

Dates: 1916-1940

Land Acquisition Plan

 Digital Image
Identifier: http://cdm16085.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16085coll18/id/3131

Land Exchange and Acquisition, 1918-1941

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS019:O
Scope and Contents

The O series consists of files and reports regarding the Forest Service land purchases and land exchange programs, particularly those involving lands revested from the Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands.

Dates: 1918-1941

Legal proclamations, land-use plans, and forest-wide inventories, 1909-1985

 Series — Box 01: Series MSS019:A; Series MSS019:B [Barcode: 35138008116003]
Identifier: MSS019:A
Scope and Contents

A-files: Legal proclamations, land-use plans, forestwide overviews, and resource inventories. The files contain boundary proclamations as well as substantial forest-wide information (general reports and plans) that describe, quantify, and inventory multiple Forest resources.

Dates: 1909-1985

Letter to District Forester, 1915

 File — Box 04: Series MSS019:D; Series MSS019:E [Barcode: 35138008116037], Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS019:D.03
Scope and Contents D-4 "Letter to District Forester," H. D. Foster, O-Fire, Crater National Forest, Medford, Oregon (16p). The letter proposes the use of "fire detectives" on the Forest. E.g., "...Let him [the detective] drift in [to the Applegate drainage] from across the mountains, not from the valley or the railroad, driving a burro loaded with pick and pan and sourdough. Let him aimlessly peck the rocks all over the country, talk with the natives and gradually become one himself...worm his way into the...
Dates: 1915

Letter to Rogue River NF Supervisor, 1985

 File — Box 06: Series MSS019:G; Series MSS019:H [Barcode: 35138008116052], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS019:H.04
Scope and Contents

H-18 "Letter to Rogue River NF Supervisor," by Ben Baker, Fort Jones, California. A brief letter relating to the WW II-era history of chrome mining in the Siskiyou Mountains. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

Dates: 1985