EARLY DAYS in the FOREST SERVICE Volume 2
EARLY DAYS IN THE FOREST SERVICE Volume 2 Compiled and Edited by Jessie Thompson 1955 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOREST SERVICE Northern Region Missoula, Montana TABLE OF CONTENTS Cover Cover Photo: Northern Region Fire Warehouse, 240 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, about 1922. Stories By: JACK CLACK (Retired 1933) "A Trip Down the Flathead" JACK CLACK "Battle of Belton" CLYDE P. FICKES (Retired 1948) "Forest Ranger, 1907" LEON C. HURTT (Retired 1951) "Transportation, Then and Now" DAVID LAKE (Retired 1940) "Early Day Experiences" DAVID LAKE "The Snowy Mountain Fire of 1900" ROY A. PHILLIPS (Retired 1951) "Recollections" G.I. PORTER (Retired 1942) "The Major and the Miner" G.I. PORTER "The Ranger's Wife" G.I. PORTER "Reminiscences of G.I. Porter" CHARLIE E. POWELL (Retired 1955) "Recollections" THEODORE SHOEMAKER (Retired 1938) "Fighting Forest Fires -- Then and Now" THEODORE SHOEMAKER "Memories" K.D. SWAN (Retired 1941) "Musselshell Reminiscences" RYLE TEED (Retired 1952) "Reminiscences of Early Days In The Forest Service" C.S. WEBB (Retired 1914) "Some Incidents Occuring During My Employment With The U.S. Forest Service, 1913- 1949" WALLACE W. WEBER (Retired 1949) "Rafting the Flathead" WILLIAM G. WEIGLE "Reminisces" Index (omitted from the online edition) LIST OF FIGURES 1. Jack Clack, center, then deputy supervisor of Flathead National Forest, 1915, on the trail up the South Fork of the Flathead River in Montana. 2. First Prefire Ranger Meeting, Bitterroot-Idaho National Forest, 1907. Major Frank Fenn, Supervisor. 3. Old Store Building, 1927, Diamond City, Montana, Confederate Gulch. Helena National Forest. 4. Libby-Troy Road in Montana, 1915, Kootenai National Forest.
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