Books
- Forest Service Trail Handbook -1935 – All sorts of policy info including Plans, Location, Construction, Marking and Maintenance of trails.
- Looters of the Public Domain – describes a series of fraudulent land deals in the late 19th and early 20th century
- Oregons Hidden Wilderness – Booklet created to showcase Bull of the Woods before it became official wilderness
- The Use of the National Forests – (large download) – 1907 – Written by Gifford Pinchot – The What, Why and How of Our National Forests
Documents
- Article about what it was like to man a lookout in the 1940’s
- Background on Place Names – A page showing some historical background on how some places were named in the district.
- Biographical Memoir of Henry L. Abbot – Abbot made surveys in the district in the early 1850’s
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) History in the Mt Hood National Forest
- Diary of Helen and Elbert Brubaker from Fish Creek Mountain Lookout – 1945
- Diary of Trip over Clackamas Water shed – August 1912 – Note: S.P. is Southern Pacific (railroad)
- Sheep Grazing in the Cascade Mountains – 1898
- Horticultural Field Notes – Bailey – 1897
- Horticultural Field Notes – Bailey – 1907
- Horticultural Field Notes – Bailey – 1909
- Horticultural Field Notes – Coville – 1898
- Horticultural Field Notes – Coville – 1897-98
- Horticultural Field Notes – Unknown author – 1909
- Horticultural Field Notes – Unknown author – 1909
- Horticultural Field Notes – Fosberg – 1962
- Letters to the Forest Service – 1970’s
- Lieutenant Abbot and Sam An-ax-shat – Abbot made surveys in the district in the early 1850’s and Sam An-ax-shat was an Indian guide who helped him navigate 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 and logging activity.
- Notes about fishing the Upper Clackamas in the 1940’s and 50’s
- Notes about the original discovery of the Cold Water Corydallis on the upper Clackamas
- Notes about proposed new powerplants on the Upper Clackamas
- Notes about trips to Big Bottom in the 1940’s and 50’s
- Oregon Forest Facts – State Board of Forestry – Booklet – 1920s
- Oregon Forest Fire Laws – 1919
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1913
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1914
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1915
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1916
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1917
- Oregon Sportsmens Magazine – ODFW – 1918
- Oregon State Board of Horticulture – Forestry and Arid Land Interests – 1898
- Oregon State Board of Horticulture – Forestry and Arid Land Interests – 1909
- Oral History – Transcript of oral history from Marcelle Walker who spent 7 years working around the district in the the 30s and 40s
- Oregon State Masters Thesis on the La Dee Flats Logging Camp in the 1920’s
- PGE History of the Clackamas River area
- Sheep Grazing in the Cascade Mountains – 1898
- US Forest Service Guard Handbook -Partial – 1940s
- US Forest Service Report on 1996 Closure of Fish Creek Drainage
- Vacation Land in the National Forests in Oregon – 1919
Maps
- Historical Maps
- Historical Map Listing – 125k, 62.5k, 24k, Mt Hood National Forest map listing
- Historical Map selector – includes Cadastral and Metsker maps – Allows you to click on an area and it displays all available map scans that apply to that area
- Other Historical Map scans – Recreation guides and high level maps – interesting, but not a lot of detail
- A few photos of other Historical Maps – These are relatively low quality photos of some other interesting historical maps – interesting, but not a lot of detail or terribly accurate
- Undated early 1900’s map of the northern part of the district – kind of an overview.
- Undated early 1900’s map of the northern part of the district – second view – kind of an overview.
- 1945 Firemans map of the northern part of the district.
- 1945 Firemans map of the southern part of the district.
- Undated 1950’s map of the northeast part of the district – This is an undated map, but guessing it is from sometime in the 50’s.
- Undated 1950’s map of the central/west part of the district – This is an undated map, but guessing it is from sometime in the 50’s.
- Undated 1950’s map of the northwest part of the district – This is an undated map, but guessing it is from sometime in the 50’s.
- Undated 1950’s map of the northeast part of the district – another view – This is an undated map, but guessing it is from sometime in the 50’s.
- Undated 1950’s map of the central part of the district – This is an undated map, but guessing it is from sometime in the 50’s.
- Overlay map tool – Allows you to display maps overlaid with varied opacity on other maps
- New Wilderness Area Maps – Maps of all the recent wilderness areas including an overview of all new wilderness maps
- New Mt Hood Wilderness areas overview
- Big Bottom Wilderness
- Bull of the Woods Additions
- Clackamas Canyon Wilderness
- Collawash River Wild Scenic River map
- Eagle Creek Wilderness Map
- Fish Creek Wild Scenic River map
- Inch Creek Wilderness
- Memaloose Lake Wilderness
- Roaring River Wilderness
- Sisi Butte Wilderness
- South Fork Clackamas River Wild Scenic River map
- South Fork Roaring River Wild Scenic River Map
News Articles
- Article from Northwest Magazine about the “new” Clackamas River Trail
- Article from the Mazamas Magazine-1974 – Discussing trail funding issues and also construction of the Clackamas River Trail
- Mazamas Letter to the Forest Service about a new Roaring River Trail – 1972
- Trail Maintenance Editorial – 1975 – discussing lack of maintenance and also a Forest Service Internal Memo response to it.
Photos
- Breitenbush Lake
- Clackamas River
- Guard Stations
- Lookouts
- Photos of old lookouts
- Panoramic photos at old lookouts in the Mt Hood National Forest
- Additional panoramic photos – The Nature Conservancy – mostly in Oregon but a few in Washington and California
- External page with additional details of the panoramic lookout photos.
- Miscellaneous
- Olallie Area
- Pack Trains
- Rebuilding the Collawash Canyon – 1965
- Road Construction
- Signs
- Trails
Trail Info
- Dry Ridge Trail Re-Route Info – 1975
- Existing And Proposed Trails in the Rock Lakes Basin – Undated
- Mount Hood National Forest-Existing and Proposed Trails – 1975
- Mount Hood National Forest-Trail Map – Bull Run District – 1948
- Notes on the Hambone Trail from the 1970s’s
- Old Discussions about the impact of wilderness on our district trails
- Old Discussion threads (prior to 2010) in HTML format – in date order
- Old Discussion Threads (prior to 2010) in PDF format – Grouped by Month
- Oregon Skyline Trail – Documents, Info and Maps of the History of the OST
- Rock Lakes Basin Flyer – Undated
- Trail Inventory-Oregon National Forest – 1916
- Trail Log – Grouse Point Trail -1968
- Trail Log – Grouse Point Trail-1979
- Trail Log – Hillockburn Trail Report-1964
- Trail Log – Huxley Lake Trail-Undated
- Trail Log – Serene Lake Trail-Undated
- Trail Log – Corral Springs Trail -Undated
- Trail Logs – Undated
- Trail Notes – Howard Rondthaler – “Rondy” – 1970
- Trail Notes – Sounds of Two Rivers Trail – 1973
- US Forest Service Recreation Report – 1891 – 1942