Box 07

Jeffery LaLande worked as an independent historian outside of his Forest Service career, and this collection resulted from his independent research. These papers include correspondence with researchers on various topics; files from essays, articles, book reviews, and books he has written; and his peer reviews, requested by various editors, of manuscripts submitted for publication.

These documents include examination reports, correspondence, and other material dealing with Forest homestead entries, "squatter" claims, and townsite withdrawals, and examinations of different mineral claim dating from the early 1900s through the 1950s. Most mineral claim files are held at the Federal Records Center.

These files consist of reports and correspondence relative to Forest Service construction and maintenance projects for roads, trails, and administrative structures such as ranger stations. Administrative site plans include Star Ranger Station, Hutton G.S., Lodgepole G.S., Huckleberry G.S., Hamaker G.S., Camp #2 Fire School, and the Medford Warehouse complex. Specific building plans of this era remain in the files of the Forest civil engineer.

I-3 Crater National Forest, "Correspondence - Ashland Creek Road proposal," Medford, Oregon (4p). Concerns a city-proposed "scenic road" up Ashland Canyon to Mount Ashland. The Forest Service was against the idea but did refer to a possible road from Siskiyou Highway to Mount Ashland. This road is the present route of the Mt. Ashland Access Road, built in the 1960s. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

I-5 Crater National Forest, "Correspondence - Diamond Lake Road Construction," Medford, Oregon (9p). The correspondence contains a description of old Diamond Lake Road and specifications for a new grade. [RRSNF/SOU-HL]

I-6 File includes penciled estimates of miles and construction expense by Districts and Forest.

I-9 Rogue River National Forest, "Early Day Ranger and Guard Stations," by Ranger John Gribble, Medford, Oregon (4p). A story about the Ashland Creek Tool House and Ranger Station located upstream from Hosler Dam built 1914-15. Includes a list of Forest Service administrative site withdrawals, noting the acres and the date each site was withdrawn from mineral and homestead entry. [RR-SNF/SOU-HL]

I-10 Crater National Forest, "Summary of Roads and Trails," Medford, Oregon (20p). [SOU-HL]

Rogue River National Forest, "Historical Record for Building Inventory and Maintenance Reports," Medford, Oregon. These forms provide construction dates as well as dates and types of various additions, remodeling, and maintenance. Reports include some structures dating to the 1920s and 1930s, such as lookouts and CCC-built guard stations. [RR-SNF/SOUHL]

The files contain various documents concerning the activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Emergency Relief Administration on the Rogue River National Forest between 1933-1942. A few items relate to the Job Corps, Youth Conservation Corps, Young Adult Conservation Corps activities of the 1960s-1970s, and the "Jobs in the Woods" program of the 1990s.