Southwest Colorado Oral Histories

Entry ID: 380

Institution: Center of Southwest Studies

  • Website: swcenter.fortlewis.edu
  • Contact Emails: Staff List
  • Phone: 970-247-7456
  • Medium(s): Audio, Transcript

    Access: Restricted (no release), Contact Institution

    Narrator: Douglas R. Leisz

    Date: 1990

    Location Tags: None

    Topic Tags: Environmentalism, Outdoor Sports & Recreation, Protected Parks/Outdoor Areas, Forestry

    Description: Conservation and preservation, multiple use sustained yield act, multiple use plans, wilderness, wild life, watershed, recreation, California as a bellwether, planning efforts, Eldorado National Forest, Public demands upon forests, visual resources, Lake Tahoe Bi-State Regional Plan, watershed protection, community stability, the lost engine, sensitivity to community needs, Accelerated Public Works Programs, Pope Beach, Recreation Fees, Environmental Standards, wilderness permit system, Mineral King, Sierra Club, National Environmental Policy Act, wildlife programs, nesting birds, California condor, non-game species, Threatened and Endangered Species Act, wildlife inventories in CA, 1964 Wildernes Act, Primitive Area Designation, mining opposition to the act, Roadless Area Review and Evaluation, Fire Study Labs, firefighting aircraft and fire retardents, Firescope, infared mapping, forest genetics, tree seed zone mapping, computers as a monitoring tool, watershed managemen in CA, water projects and fishery needs, soil surveys in CA, Materials Testing Laboratory, stabilization of roads within the forests, land acquisition and exchange, snowshed research, Wild and Scenic River system, timber management practices, 1976 Forest Management Act, Integrated Forest Land Used Plan, Kern Plateau land use controversy, silviculture, Chico-Eldorado Forest Inventory, forest as a renewable resource, full utilization of timber resources, mineral development on the National Forests, pseudo-miners, Surface Rights Determination Act of 1955, personal views on the role of the National Forests, changes from a custodial era to the involvement in controversy, changes in the forestry profession; About Narrator: USDA Forest Service Career Dates: 1950-1982; Collection:U002 Box 3: U.S Forest Service Oral History Collection ; Notes:No record in Online catalog. Listed in WorldCat https://fortlewiscollege.on.worldcat.org/oclc/41930797; 11/20,27,29/90

    Last updated January 30, 2025