FOREST SUPERVISORSAND RANGERS

19071907-19081908-19131913-19141914-19181918-19381934-19351938-19421942-19501950-19521952-19621962-19731973-19761976-19851985-19891990-19921992-19991999-20042004-20072007-20092010-Present

Forest Supervisors

Fred E. Ames (Acting)Clyde R. SeitzAnson E. CohoonJ. Roy Harvey (Acting)Hugh B. RankinRalph S. ShelleyThomas H. Burgess (Acting)DahI J.KirkpatrickFrederick W. FurstBoyd L. RasmussenRex W. WakefieldSpencer T. MooreF. Dale RobertsonLarry A. FellowsTom L. ThompsonWendy M. HerrettJames R. FurnishGloria BrownJose L. LinaresBarnie 1. GyantJerry Ingersoll

Spencer T. Moore (left) and Rex W. Wakefield(right) at the Smith River Ranger Station atGardiner during winter 1962.

District RangersHebo Waldport1907-1908 George E. Leach 1907-1923 Martin S. Durbin1908-1909 Wilbur J. Stillwell 1923-1925 Walter Sackman1909-1910 George E. Leach 1925-1930 George P. McClanahan1910-1912 Frederick R. Russell 1930-1935 Louis H. Neff1912-1915 Robert J. Craig, Jr. 1935-1937 Harvey A. Welty1915-1918 Charles T. Beach 1937-1945 Edward S. Kerby1918-1937 Leroy E. Garwood 1945-1957 Howard G. Hopkins1937-1940 Robert Aufderheide 1957-1961 William P. Ronayne1940-1943 Carroll E. Brown 1961-1963 Arvid C. Elison1943-1966 Rolfe E. Anderson 1963-1967 William C. Fessell1966-1975 Wendall L. Jones 1967-1971 1. Kent Mays, Jr.1975-1978 Joseph Astleford 1971-1974 Robert N. Thompson1978-1992 Ed Oram 1974-1986 Robert J. Bartholomew1992-2001 Don Gonzalez 1986-1990 John C. Twiss2001-present George Buckingham 1990-1994 Conny J. Frisch

1995-2000 Doris Tai

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District Rangers, cont'd

Florence Alsea 1907-1913 Carl Hxoung 1963-1967 Ormond H. Doty 1914-1915 J. L. MacKechnie 1967-1971 James C. Overbay 1916-1918 George 1. McCaskie 1971-1978 Frank Rasmussen 1919-1920 Edward S. Kerby 1978-1983 Ned Davis 1920-1925 Purl N. Stephenson 1983-1987 Nancy Graybeal 1925-1927 Donald H. Dickerson 1988-1997 Mike Da Luz

1927-1930 Louis H. Neff 1997-2000 Doris Tai

Gardiner Oregon Dunes National 1908-1911 Peter S. Rice Recreation Area 1911-1919 Otto Weaver 1972-1973 Richard R. Marlega 1919-1927 Donald G. Knox 1973-1975 Jerald N. Hutchins 1927-1931 Hobart H. Durbin 1975-1976 RoIf D. Anderson

1976-1979 Robert L. Schrenk

Mapleton 1979-1986 Rick Scott

1920-1937 Edward S. Kerby 1986-1990 Conny J. Frisch

1937-1949 Harvey A. Welty 1990-1992 Ranotta K. McNair

1949-1952 Herman C. Dill 1993-2000 Edwin J. Becker

1953-1954 WaIf red J. Moisio 1954-1967 Verus W. Dahlin Central Coast Ranger District 1967-1973 Robert A. Perske (Waldport/Alsea, Mapleton Ranger 1973-1976 Phillip B. Wickham District and Oregon Dunes NRA 1977-1987 Melvin Kessel combined initially as the South Zone) 1988-2000 William M. Helphinstine

2000-2002 Rotating District Ranger

Smith River Position shared between

1953-1957 James B. Lowrie Edwin J. Becker, Doris Tai,

1957-1958 Dave F. Keiser and William M. Helphinstine

1958-1964 1. Carl JuhI 2003-2007 William M. Helphinstine

1964-1971 Roger L. Long 2007-present Pamela J. Gardner

1971-1972 Richard R. Marlega

Marys Peak 1955-1957 Rex Ressler 1957-1958 Floyd J. Lyne 1958-1961 Arvid E. Ellson 1961-1963 Barrett M. Coughlan 1963-1966 John R. Skeele

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SIUSLAW NATIONALFOREST TIMELINE

Siuslaw National Forest TimelinePresident Roosevelt creates Tillamookand Umpqua Forest Reserves as two

Forest Homestead of the Midnight Reserves. Hebo,Act permits Waldport, Florence, Gardiner Ranger

Forest Reserve U.S. Forest homesteading on Districts formed. Forest ReservesSystem created Service created Forest Reserves become National Forests.

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1891 1905 1906 1907

1908Siuslaw National Forest created from

- Tillamook National Forest and coastalportion of the Umpqua National Forest

1917-1919U.S. enters

World War I.Army Spruce

ProductionDivision builds

huge mill atToledo, and

Spruce Railroadfrom South Beach

to Waldport

1917 1914 1910 VSiuslaw National Siuslaw staff preserves ExtensiveForest Land Cape Perpetua for reforestation on theClassification Atlas recreation Hebo Ranger DistrictcomQleted

Dallas, Philomath andCorvallis watershedsadd 2,880 acres toSiuslaw

Mapleton RangerDistrict formed

1920

91

Federal Highway Act Pacific Northwestprovides funds for forest Experimentalhighways and Station established

1921 1925

1927-1929

Elliott State Forest createdfrom parts of the Siuslaw

National Forest and Bureauof Land Management lands.

Siuslaw loses 70,000 acres

V1932-1941 1931 1930

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Nationwide Depression and the Florence Ranger Knudsen-New Deal. New Deal Programs District closed; Vandenberg Actimportant to the Siuslaw include the Gardiner Ranger provides funds forCivilian Conservation Corps, National District closed reforestation afterIndustrial Recovery Act, Resettlement timber harvestAdministration, Works ProgressAdministration, Lumber Code of theNational Recovery Administration

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V 1933 1936

First company Coast highwayof Civilian bridgesConservation completedCorps arrives at by OrcgonCamp Cape Creek Department of

TransportationSevere fire and WPAseason, includingTillamook Burn Blodgett Tract Fire(which does notreach the Siuslaw)

Marys Peakpurchases add

Alsea Burn 19,795 acres tothe Siuslaw

Cascade HeadExperimentalForest Stationestablished

EndangeredSpecies Act

V 1973

1974

Cascade HeadScenic ResearchArea created

1938 1940

Camp Cleawox New Dealbuilt by the CCC programs add

69,482 acres tothe Siuslaw

Smith RiverRanger Districtclosed

Oregon DunesNational NationalRecreation Area Environmentalestablished Policy Act

1972 1969

WildernessAreas established,n,-;ff

Archaeological Resources Cummins CreekProtection Act and Rock Creek

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1979 1984

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Northern SpottedOwl listed asendangered

Siuslaw 10-yearLand and ResourceManagement Plan

1990

Wild andScenic RiversAct

1968

First Passport inTime project onthe Siuslaw

1991

1941 1942 1943

CELEBRATING THE SIUSLAWA Century of Growth

Ward Tonsfeldt, PhD.

This book traces the history of the Siuslaw National Forest from itsorigins at the beginning of the 20th century through its centennial year-2008. The Siuslaw's location on the Oregon coast has made the Foresta lightning rod for many public-land management issues. These includecontroversies surrounding the creation of national forests, Native Americanreservation issues, land fraud, "World War I lumber procurement, NewDeal resettlement programs, World "War II coastal defense, the heavytimber production of the post-war decades, and the late 20th centuryenvironmental movement. All of these play out against the spectacularscenery, the quiet communities, and the endemic economic problemsof the Oregon coast. The book relies on manuscript materials, reports,and photographs archived on the Siuslaw National Forest, at the KnightLibrary of the University of Oregon, and the Oregon Historical Society

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