Here are some historical items of interest
Lieutenant Abbot and Sam An-ax-shat
Biographical Memoir of Henry L. Abbot
Forest Service Trail Handbook from 1935
Oregons Hidden Wilderness – Booklet created to showcase Bull of the Woods before it became official wilderness
Photo taken from atop Signal Butte in 1934 showing the fire devastation
Oregon State Masters Thesis on the La Dee Flats Logging Camp in the 1920’s
USFS Report on 1996 Closure of Fish Creek Drainage
Article from Northwest Magazine about the “new” Clackamas River Trail
Diary of Helen and Elbert Brubaker from Fish Creek Mountain Lookout – 1945
Article about what it was like to man a lookout in the 1940’s
Notes about trips to Big Bottom in the 1940’s and 50’s
Notes about fishing the Upper Clackamas in the 1940’s and 50’s
Notes about the powerplants on the Upper Clackamas (Big Bottom was supposed to have a dam!)
Notes about the original discovery of the Cold Water Corydallis on the upper Clackamas
Photos of old lookouts (panoramic photos) in the Mt Hood National Forest and another page with details of the photos.
Photo of trail building by the Timber Lake Job Corps – building the Alder Flat trail.
Manual of how to use the Osborne FireFinder (still in use today)
Old Discussion about the impact of wilderness on our district trails
Book – “Looters of the Public Domain” – describes a series of fraudulent land deals in the late 19th and early 20th century
Oral History – Transcript of oral history from Marcelle Walker who spent 7 years working around the district in the the 30s and 40s
Forest Service Book – “The Use of the National Forests” (large download) – 1907
Background on Place Names – A page showing some historical background on how some places were named in the district.
National Forest Development in the 1950s – A PDF from a retired ranger showing some very interesting aerial photos of the district as well as some other historical information on developments.
The following are Historical documents and photos courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service, Mt. Hood National Forest.
Existing And Proposed Trails in the Rock Lakes Basin – Undated
Letters to the Forest Service – 1970’s
Notes on the Hambone Trail from the 1970s’s
MHNF-Existing and Proposed Trails – 1975
MHNF-Trail Map – Bull Run District – 1948
Article from the Mazama Magazone-1974.pdf
Sounds of Two Rivers Trail Info – 1973
Trail Inventory-Oregon National Forest – 1916
Trail Maintenance Editorials – 1975
Trail Notes – Howard Rondthaler – “Rhondy” – 1970
USFS Recreation Report – 1891 – 1942
USFS Guard Handbook-Partial – 1940s
Mazamas Letter about a Roaring River Trail – 1972
Rock Lakes Basin Flyer – Undated
Dry Ridge Trail Re-Route Info – 1975
Corral Springs Trail Log-Undated
These next two links are for discussions from the old trailadvocate.org website. There is a lot of very interesting information in them that we didn’t want to lose in the conversion to the new site.
Old Discussion threads in HTML format – in date order
Old Discussion Threads in PDF format – Grouped by Month
I mentioned to some folks from PGE the article on the never-completed hydroelectric projects at Big Bottom and elsewhere in the Clackamas. They knew of these old proposals and said that they were delayed for more than one reason but what eventually killed them was cheaper power from the great dams on the Columbia. In a very real sense the damming of the Columbia prevented more damming on the Clackamas. Flooding Big Bottom – now a Wilderness and Scenic River – would have been a great loss.