Box 04
Contains 24 Results:
Fire management, 1911-1942
Fire Management. The D files are a collection of documents specifically related to the problems and issues of forest fire management, including control plans, studies, suppression and prevention efforts, acres burned, fire causes, etcetera. The files also provide a fire history. Similar material that does not deal solely or mainly with fires can be found in the A and O files.
Annual Fire Reports, 1911-1919
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]
District Fire Plans, 1913
D-3 "District Fire Plans," by Martin L. Erickson, FPlans, Crater National Forest, Medford, Oregon (37p). The document provides general types and severity of fire hazard by District, provides information on local fire attitudes, and makes recommendations for additional lookouts and telephone lines. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]
Letter to District Forester, 1915
Special Fire Study, 1915-1916
Fire History, 1916
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]
Letter to Crater National Forest Supervisor, 1916
D-7 District Forester "Letter to Crater National Forest Supervisor," dated July 26, 1916, O-Fire, Portland, Oregon (7p). The letter contains comments on a Fire Management Report prepared for the Klamath and Crater National Forests, by Arthur Ringland; item D-9. The file includes an additional 16-page letter by Assistant District Forester. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]
Fire Lookout System on the Crater National Forest, 1916
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]
Report on Fire Protection Problems of the Klamath and Crater National Forests, 1916
Comments on Fire Plan, 1925
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]