Early Days in the Forest Service Volume 1

Cover

Cover Photo: Elers Koch, Along Lewis and Clark Trail

Elers Koch, (December 12, 1880-November 21, 1954), a recognized authority on the Lewis & Clark Trail across the Bitterroot Mountain Range. Born in Bozeman, Montana, graduated from Montana State College, 1901, and received a Master's degree in Forestry from Yale, 1903. For 39 years he worked for the U.S. Forest Service. He located and planned the Forest Service's Savenac Nursery at Haugen, Montana, served as Supervisor of the Lolo and Bitterroot National Forests, and was Northern Region Director of Fire Control. In 1920 he was named chief of the Northern Region's Division of Timber Management. He and two others in the Forest Service party were the first to climb Montana's highest peak (12,842), Granite Peak. He is the author of "The High Trail," published in 1953.

Foreword by Evan W. Kelley

Stories By:

John C. Baird
O.C. Bradeen
Hartley A. Calkins
Albert E. Cole
Clyde P. Fickes
J.A. Fitzwater
A.E. Fly
Joseph B. Halm
Robert C. Henley
Robert L. Hess
Elers Koch*
David Lake
O.O. Lansdale
Frank F. Liebig
John W. Lowell
Fred Morrell
William W. Morris
Thomas G. Myers
Clarence B. Swim
J.N. Templer
Earl V. Welton
R.L. Woesner
E.A. Woods
E. Ross Young

Index (omitted from the online edition)

1. Big Hole Road, Bitterroot National Forest. Built 1914

2. Lick Creek Timber Sale, 1909, Bitterroot National Forest

3. Holland Peak Lookout, 1923, Flathead National Forest

4. Silver's Ranger Station, 1925, Nez Perce National Forest

5. Lunch at Meadow Creek, Flathead National Forest Left to right: Rangers Thol, Mendenhall, Hutchinson. Sometime in the 1920's.

6. Government team and Scaler's Cabin at Beadmore's Tunnel Camp 1923, Kaniksu National Forest. Howard Drake and Hank Ogsden in front seat.

7. Blackfeet National Forest Ranger meeting at Point of Rocks near Olney, Montana, April 4, 1910

8. Forest Service cabin constructed in June 1899 at Alta, Montana by Rangers Wilkerson and Tuttle.

9. Coram Ranger Station, 1908, Flathead National Forest

10. Ranger Bob Snyder and family at Graham Creek Ranger Station, Coeur d'Alene National Forest

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