History of the Rogue River National Forest Volume 2 — 1933-1969

Leading pack train of mules to load up supplies for planting and trail crews. Pelican Ranger Station - Lee P. Brown, October 1925

Logging Camp of Owen Oregon Lumber Company at Camp 2, operating on National Forest timber sale. - Photo by Fred Ames, November 1925.

Major Henry L. Nutting, Owen Oregon Lumber Co., measures a large sugar pine cut near Camp 2. -Fred Ames, Nov. 1925

Beetle Control Camp at Sand Creek, 1927

Waters of Big Butte Springs are capped at their outlet and never see the light of day until they come from City of Medford faucets. This concrete capping structure was built in 1927. Water for these springs comes largely from National Forest lands.

Reeder Reservoir in Ashland Municipal Watershed. This dam, 103 feet high, was built in 1928 for $350,000 with a storage capacity of 800 Acre Feet. Waters for this dam come from Forest Service lands.

MUNICIPAL WATERSHED DEVELOPMENTS 1927 and 1928

Fire-killed timber at East Cove, Fish Lake. Destroying recreational use of the area for the present. - Lee P. Brown, November 1928

Inexpensive lockout tower on Agency Butte 106 feet from ground to fire-finder. Tree is a western yellow pine. Iron pins. - L. D. Bailey, 1930

Pelican Ranger Station - L. D. Bailey, October 1930

Lake of the Woods Ranger Station, Dwelling, and Office, 1931.

Executive Order

ROGUE RIVER NATIONAL FOREST
OREGON

In order to avoid the confusion growing out of a similarity of names of the Crater Lake National Park and the Crater National Forest, in the State of Oregon, it is hereby ordered that the name of the "Crater National Forest" be changed to "Rogue River National Forest."

HERBERT HOOVER

THE WHITE HOUSE,
     July 9, 1932.

[No. 5882]

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