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Spring 2015 the Rendezvous the Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Forest Service Association Te Rendezvous Spring 2015 The Rendezvous The Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Forest Service Association R o s Volume 3 Number 2 R c r o k e n ck y e io y M n iat ou Mo ai oc nta unt Ass in Forest Service Disappearing Districts A hundred Years of Lumping and Leaving In this Issue By Tom Thompson Memorial Grove 5 forests were joined together. Today Clint Kyhl 7 Two years after the creation of the there are eleven Forest Supervisors Forest Service in 1905 it was clearly Scholarship Winner in Region 2. stated in the book “The Use of the 10 Round the Region National Forests” that most all the More striking by comparison work and business the agency though is that today only about one 12 The Bear actually was to do and also the most in three of the original number of of the important connection to the 14 districts still exist. In 1920 there Out of Africa public was the responsibility of the were 148 individual ranger districts Forest Supervisors and Rangers in identified in the Service Directory Smokejumpers 19 the field. The Rangers were for District 2 (Region 2). The described as the field force and directory today, if there were one, Retiree Profile 23 Gifford Pinchot wanted them would show only 50 districts for the located in central points Lost Man Station 26 Region. This number includes throughout the Forests to carry out eight district units that were the the business on the ground. Remember Y2K? 27 result of adding the grasslands to the system in 1962. So effectively In 1910, there were thirty forests in 29 for an adjusted comparison, the James T. Sabin Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, number today could be considered Nebraska, and Kansas. By 1920 the 31 forty two rather than fifty. Remembrances number had shrunk to 23 as smaller The Last Word 39 “The official newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Forest Service Association, the Rocky Mountaineers.” Editions are published Fall, Winter, and Spring and posted on-line. “Lunch time” (continued on Page 2) Page 1 Te Rendezvous Spring 2015 (continued fom Page 1) Much has happened in the last century that has Forest changes with the elimination of the caused this change. Early on, one of the most Cochetopa, Montezuma, Leadville, Holy Cross, dramatic changes that occurred was the Washakie, and Harney forests in the Region. automobile. When early districts were established, the only way to travel across the reserves and From 1960 to 1980, another 26 districts were forests was by horse. Indeed, many ranger district eliminated. Regional Forester Craig Rupp was not boundaries were determined by how much pleased with the direction this was going and in territory a ranger could effectively cover by January, 1983 he wrote to the Forest Supervisors horseback. When the automobile came along, and stated emphatically that he was “unwilling to adjustments needed to be made, but the transitions agree to any further combinations at this point in weren’t easy. time and for the foreseeable future.” The essence of his position was laid out in this one paragraph: In 1923, Forest Supervisor Wallace J. Pearce advised his Rangers that he “did not feel that ownership of “The Ranger District remains the font line of the Forest an automobile by any member of the ranger force Service contacts. The District personnel provide the very is essential to good administration of any district large majority of visible perception of ‘what the Forest on the Forest, and to get value received they should Service is’ to the public. They have the day-to-day contact be used very carefully.” Wallace felt that with the largest amount of the public and the best “Ordinarily trips between two points should be opportunity to: manage the resources, manage use of made horseback across the Forest in order that the resources, manage activities, prevent destruction, decide ranger may be on the scene of his normal work, local issues on local grounds, act as agents of the public, being in a position to discover things that need prevent mistakes rather than being reactive, and represent attention.” the Forest Service and its goals and objectives to the public.” Times they did change and by 1930 the number of Districts in the Region had gone from 148 down to He believed the arguments to combine districts 109 in total. Over the next three decades there that dealt with budget savings were short-sighted were relatively few changes in numbers of districts. and the organizational loss of presence and By 1960 there were still about a hundred districts. availability to the public were just not worth it. Most that did occur during this time in the thirties, forties, and fifties, were the result of (continued on Page 3) How To Contact “Rocky Mountaineers” Website www.rockymountaineers.us E-mail [email protected] Editor of Newsletter - Dave Steinke, [email protected],720-289-7621 Website Manager - Bill Disbrow, [email protected], 303-548-7501 E-Mail Manager - Johnny Hodges, [email protected], 970-226-6890 Memorial Grove - Steve Deitemeyer, [email protected], 303-456-0799 or Tom Thompson at [email protected], 303-933-2135 Membership & Others - P.O. Box 270462, Fort Collins, CO 80527 Page 2 Te Rendezvous Spring 2015 (continued fom Page 2) He said he would “rather see you return to one Service decided to move out of town and at best person Ranger districts with zoning of all technical leave a “work center”. Consolidation and and professional assistance, than combine Ranger combination decisions have generally never been Districts and lose Ranger contacts.” easy decisions and most were done with considerable thought and analysis. In a few cases, During the rest of his tenure and on into the early however, decisions no doubt were influenced by nineties, there were very few district convenient vacancies and questionable conclusions combinations. But over the last twenty-five years, a that there would be substantive cost savings and couple dozen there would continue to be a significant presence more in the community being vacated. combinations have happened I imagine most Rocky Mountaineers would hope and the number that the scissors, or perhaps more appropriately of district today, that the ‘delete’ button would be used very rangers in the sparingly in the future as we’ve probably combined Region is now at enough already. Perhaps at some point 50 in total. consideration should be made to revisiting some of these combinations where important communities Alpine Ranger Station, 1923 The Region has no longer have access to a Forest Service ranger. the distinction of probably The table on the next page shows all the names of having the largest District in the Forest Service districts in R-2 that no longer exist. The names are outside of Alaska with the Gunnison District on shown by the period of time in which the districts the Grand Mesa Uncompahgre Gunnison National disappeared beginning in 1920-30. These might Forest. This one District is 1,632,136 acres which is have been the result of combinations, larger than nearly two-thirds of all the Forests in consolidations, or simply a renaming of a district. the entire National Forest System. It is what used to be the Gunnison National Forest. There has been much teeth grinding and hand wringing over the years as these decisions to combine districts have happened. Many communities have felt a loss when the Forest For a complete historical A summary of Forest and differences are understandable overview of the Rocky Ranger District consolidation considering the influence of Mountain Region’s forest and history for all regions is also issues like major program district consolidations and found in this supplemental growth in the 50’s and 60’s combinations see appendix material. It can be because of the timber supplemental tables, listings, seen from this summary that program, the expansion of timelines, and summaries that Regions 1-4 all have similar National Forest System land can be found in the Rocky trends over time, and Region in the east and south because Mountaineers website http:// 5 and 6 are similar but of acquisitions under the rockymountaineers.us/ different than Regions 1-4, Weeks Act. History/ and likewise Regions 8, 9, and located under the history tab. 10 are also different. The Page 3 Te Rendezvous Spring 2015 R-2 District names that have disappeared over diferent time periods Forest 1920-30 1930-1960 1960-1990 1990-2010 + Grand Mesa Anthracite, North Black Mesa, Alpine, Muddy, Sapinero, Collbran, Uncompahgre Fork, Crested Butte, Pitkin, Tomichi, Mesa, Grand Jct., Gunnison Grand River, Big Lakes, Delta Miguel, North End Cebolla, Creek, Taylor River, Buzzard, Horsefly, Cimarron, Lake Fork, Telluride San Juan LaPlata, Hermosa, Silverton, Blanco, Columbine, Glade Mancos, Chimney, Navajo Rico, Animas, Treasure, Engineer, Pine Rio Grande Bonanza, Carnero, Alder, Alamosa Creede South Fork, Pyramid Pike- Hardscrabble, Custer, San Luis, Spanish Peak San Isabel Blanca, Poncha, Bailey, Lake Cimarron Greenhorn, Las Buena Vista, George Comanche Animas, Huerfano, Bassam, Cottonwood Westcliffe, Jefferson, South Fork Devil’s Head White River Bear River, New Burro Mtn., Sleepy Crystal River, Holy Cross, Castle, Cat Frying Pan, Eagle, Miller Creek, Williams Fork, Red Glenwood Aspen, Sopris Shoshone, Cliff Sheephorn, Pando, Avon, Cattle Creek Norrie, Capitol Creek Dillon, Blue River Arapaho Ward, Buckhorn, North Fork Fraser, Kremmling Estes Park, Roosevelt Cherokee Park Laramie River Poudre, Redfeather Medicine Bow Snake, Steamboat, Keystone, LaBonte Bow River, Pole Brush Creek, Routt Bow, LaPrele Mtn., Hayden Bear River, Centennial, Snake Sevenmile Rv., Encampment, Foxpark Shoshone Wood River, Sheridan, Absaroka, Lander Sunlight, Carter South Fork Mtn., Crandall, Canyon Creek, Dubois, North Fork Bighorn Shell Porcupine Goose Medicine Wheel, Paintrock, Tensleep Black Hills Crook Mtn., Hardy, Black Buttes, Bear Mtn., Fall Custer, Elk Merritt, Keystone, Rockerville River, Mtn., Pringle Hill City, Harney, Nemo, Limestone, Pactola, Rockford Spearfish Nebraska Niobrara Total Number ** 53 37 32 27 **Note: These numbers are of district names that have disappeared which may reflect a combination, consolidation, or in some cases just a renaming of a district.
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