The Rise of Multiple-Use Management in the Intermountain West: A History of Region 4 of the Forest Service

In any work of this sort, the author is always beholden to others in various ways for their assistance. Unfortunately, when one begins making lists, someone is bound to be left out. Nevertheless, I felt it important to make such a list since so many people helped on the project. Philip B. Johnson, History Coordinator in the Regional Information Office, spent considerable time in contacting the various National Forests, securing statistical information, and coordinating access to present and former employees and to Forest Service records. Natalie Ethington, secretary of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, spent countless hours in checking footnotes, proofreading, working on the bibliography, and printing the various versions of the manuscript. Her predecessors, Lori Warren and Jennifer Dean, assisted in making travel arrangements and in transcribing interviews. Barbara Lyman assisted in proofreading. James Allen, chairman of the History Department, and Martin B. Hickman, former dean of the College of Family Home and Social Sciences at Brigham Young University, made arrangements to release me from teaching duties to write the history. David Merrill and the staff of MESA Corporation provided technical assistance and did the final typing of the manuscript.

Members of the staff at the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies assisted considerably. Completion of the research would have been impossible without the assistance of research assistants Harvard Heath, Bruce Westergren, and Jennifer Lund. Jessie Embry, Oral History Program Director, supervised the processing of oral history interviews, and the following people assisted in compiling and transcribing the interviews: Kristine Ireland, Kathleen Wilson, Rhonda Courtsey, Stephanie Mathews, Jodi Stewart, Janet Nelson, and Karen Vanfleet.

Several people provided invaluable help in reading the manuscript and pulling me from pits into which I might otherwise have fallen. They are: Gordon L. Watts, Floyd Iverson, James L. Jacobs, William D. Hurst, and Vern Hamre (retirees); Louise Kingsbury of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station; Charles S. Peterson of Utah State University: and Chief Historian Dennis Roth and history staff member Frank Harmon of the Washington Office.

A number of people were particularly helpful in providing documents and facilitating interviews. Regional Forester Stan Tixier and the various staff directors in the regional office—Richard K. Griswold, Patrick J. Sheehan, William H. McCrum, George M. Taggart (acting), Stephen M. Slimp, David E. Blackner, Archer W. Wirth (acting), Douglas M. Bird, Sterling J. Wilcox, Robert L. Safran, Donald A. Schultz (acting), Don Hooper (acting), Richard F. Sanders, George A. Roether, and Paul W. Shields (acting)—all provided help. In each of the national forests, the forest supervisors and their staffs leaned over backward to facilitate my work. Among them were: James N. Craig, Terry D. Hopson, and Marilyn Mlazovsky (Ashley); John J. Lavin, Dale J. Dufor (Boise); Reid Jackson, Elaine Mercill (Bridger-Teton); Charles J. Hendricks, Dahl Zohner (Caribou); William R. Paddock, Helen J. Edge (Challis); John Lupis, Ralph S. Rawlinson, J.O. Holwager, Kathleen A. Slack (Dixie); J. Kent Taylor, Robert W. Leonard (Fishlake); Bobby J. Graves, Gary R. Schaffran (Humboldt); Reed C. Christensen, Ross E. Butler, Nedra W. Cooper (Manti-LaSal); Kenneth D. Weyers, Lee Bennett, Walter P. Pierson (Payette); Richard T. Hauff, James R. Moorhead, Kenneth E. Stauffer, Kathy Zanutto (Salmon); Roland Stoleson, Arthur S. Selin (Sawtooth); John E. Burns, Ann Maetjko, Marion Boulter (Targhee); Jim Nelson, James A. Lawrence, Marsha J. Cardinal, Terry B. Randolph (Toiyabe); Don T. Nebeker, Gary M. Coleman, Faun Dene Cummings, Vicki May (Uinta); and Arthur J. Carroll, Frank H. Grover (Wasatch-Cache). Lawrence Lassen, Louise Kingsbury, and the staff of the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station provided considerable information.

The Federal records centers at Denver, Seattle, and San Bruno provided access to noncurrent records of the regional office and the various forests. Particular thanks go to Robert Svenningsen and Joel Barker at the Denver Federal Archives and Records Center; Phillip E. Lothyan at the Seattle Federal Archives and Records Center; David D. Drake and Gary Kramer at the San Bruno Federal Archives and Records Center.

At the National Archives in Washington, DC, Renee Jaussaud and Richard Crawford were extremely helpful with Department of the Interior records.

My thanks also to various former Forest Service personnel for supplying material from private collections. James L. Jacobs and Vern Hamre opened their homes and files as did Floyd Iverson with whom I spent a delightful morning and on whom I have called for additional information. My longtime friend G. Robert Standing supplied papers of his father Arnold R. Standing.