Here are some historical items of interest
Oregons Hidden Wilderness – Booklet created to showcase Bull of the Woods before it became official wilderness
Photo taken from atop Signal Butte in 1934 showing the fire devastation
Oregon State Masters Thesis on the La Dee Flats Logging Camp in the 1920’s
Article from Northwest Magazine about the “new” Clackamas River Trail
Diary of Helen and Elbert Brubaker from Fish Creek Mountain Lookout – 1945
Article about what it was like to man a lookout in the 1940’s
Notes about trips to Big Bottom in the 1940’s and 50’s
Notes about fishing the Upper Clackamas in the 1940’s and 50’s
Notes about the powerplants on the Upper Clackamas (Big Bottom was supposed to have a dam!)
Notes about the original discovery of the Cold Water Corydallis on the upper Clackamas
Photo of trail building by the Timber Lake Job Corps – building the Alder Flat trail.
Manual of how to use the Osborne FireFinder (still in use today)
Old Discussion about the impact of wilderness on our district trails
Book – “Looters of the Public Domain” – describes a series of fraudulent land deals in the late 19th and early 20th century
Oral History – Transcript of oral history from Marcelle Walker who spent 7 years working around the district in the the 30s and 40s
Forest Service Book – “The Use of the National Forests” (large download) – 1907
Background on Place Names – A page showing some historical background on how some places were named in the district.
National Forest Development in the 1950s – A PDF from a retired ranger showing some very interesting aerial photos of the district as well as some other historical information on developments.
The following are Historical documents and photos courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest.
These next two links are for discussions from the old trailadvocate.org website. There is a lot of very interesting information in them that we didn’t want to lose in the conversion to the new site.