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D-2 Crater National Forest "Annual Fire Reports, 1911 and 1915" E-Statistics, Medford, Oregon (68p). Gives causes, acres, and timber volumes burned. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

Scope and Contents D-5 "Special Fire Study," H. D. Foster, O-Fire, Crater National Forest, Medford, Oregon (20p). The study describes the installation of weather instruments on Windy Peak, evaluates the fire-fighting qualities of various tools, and studies detection and suppression times for three fires. The study notes some of Ranger Gribble's fire prevention slogans on signs in the Ashland Watershed: "Keep Vulcan Quiet Till Pluvius Returns"...and Foster's comments: "To be sure, few who read the notice would...

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D-6 Crater National Forest "Fire History," O-Fire, Medford, Oregon (20p). The document details acres burned since 1910, fire causes, ecterea by District. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

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D-8 "The Fire Lookout System on the Crater National Forest," by Harold D. Foster, RS-Reports (Annual Technical Report), Crater National Forest, Medford, Oregon (94p). An extensive report dealing with the improvement needs of then-existing lookouts, recommendations for additional lookouts, and describes present and projected guard patrols of various areas. Documents include many photographs from lookout points. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

Scope and Contents D-9 "Report on Fire Protection Problems of the Klamath and Crater National Forests," by Arthur C. Ringland, F-Studies, U.S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C. (46p). A controversial report representing an opposing philosophy to the ideas in item D-4, and detailing the socio-economic problems to fire control in the Applegate drainage. The report proposes, among other measures, a widely-expanded controlledburning program. Arthur Ringland began his Forest Service career as one of Gifford...

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D-12 Assistant District Forester, "Comments on 1925 Fire Plan," O-Supervision, U.S. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon (15p). Details deficiencies in fire suppression on the Crater NF and relates the events of several fires in the Prospect Ranger District. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

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D-19 "Fire Plan," by Hugh B. Rankin, Crater National Forest, Medford, Oregon (30p). A Forest-wide plan for the prevention, reporting, and suppression of fires. The document provides a 13-year history of fire, fire suppression personnel, and equipment by specific duty stations and dispatching procedures. [RR-SNF/SOUHL]

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D-33 "On Mount Pitt," by Ernest W. Smith, Rogue River National Forest, Medford, Oregon (4p). A poem about the first fire lookout on Mt. "Pitt" (Mt. McLoughlin) and deals with then-current concepts of Forest Service fire suppression. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

Scope and Contents D-46 "The Relation of Brush Fires to Natural Reproduction, Applegate Division of the Crater N.F.," by J. V. Hofmann, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Portland, Oregon. This report discusses the study of natural reproduction following forest fires. Locations in the study include Palmer Creek, Kinny Creek Ridge, Applegate Ridge, Quartz Creek, Randall, SW slopes of Little Applegate River, Ruch, and Applegate. See also item E-14. The topics covered include erosion, timber production and value, and the...

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E-2 "Inter-Forest Grazing Report (Umpqua/Crater), 1909-1918," by S. C. Bartrum, Memorandum to District Forester, Umpqua National Forest, Roseburg, Oregon (69p). A compilation of correspondence and reports dealing with decade-long controversies over sheep-allotment boundaries on the Rogue-Umpqua Divide. The papers mention names and camp locations of early sheep men such as Yancey, Wiley, Lewis, Minter, Gibson of Prineville, Porfily and Mayben Bros. of Prineville. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]