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Rodney Fety logging collection

Rodney O . Fety logging collection
1999.58.1:
“Yarding” folder: 1930s-1960 photographs of yarding and yarding equipment; steam donkey on grounds of Forestry Building, high-lead yarding—many taken near Coos Bay
“Lumbering” folder: 1910s-60s photographs of lumber handling and lumber mills, Columbia River, Tolo, Roseburg, Dillard, Oregon City, Lebanon, Linnton, St. Johns; Forestry Building interior
“Felling and Bucking” folder: 1940s-60 photographs of felling and bucking red cedar, ponderosa pine; Quinault Reservation, Medco
“Transporting” folder: 1890s-1960s photographs of oxen logging, McCloud River Railroad, log ponds, Smith River log dump (Coos Bay); Medco, Willamette River, Oregon City locks, Sweet Home
“Loading” folders: 1940s-60s photographs of loading timber; Coos County, Medco, Clackamas
1999.53.2:
1954 report: Legislative and Administrative Policy for the O&C Forest Lands by Rodney O. Fety and C. W. Loomer
1999.53.3:
Circa 1971 report: From Passive to Intensive Management of BLM Forest Lands in Western Oregon by Rodney O. Fety
1999.53.4:
1971 Transcript of Proceedings: President’s Panel on Timber and the Environment
1999.53.5:
1960s History of the Oregon Division of Southern Pacific [Railroad] by George Kraus
1999.53.15.1:
1985 book manuscript: Revolt in the Provinces by Russell E. Getty—memoirs of Getty covering his years with the BLM 1952-66, “a history of the rivalry for jurisdiction over public forest lands by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior”
1999.53.10:
1957 BLM brochure “For Permanent Forest Production”
1999.53.12:
1960 “The Disposition of the Public Domain in Oregon,” by Jerry A. O’Callaghan
1999.53.8:
1974 program, Department of the Interior 42nd Honor Award Convocation
1990.53.7:
1971 proceedings, hearings on management of national forest lands
1999.53.9:
1953 report of the Special Committee on Revision of the Public Land Laws
1999.53.11:
1937 proceedings, hearings on the O&C Railroad lands
1999.53.14:
1967 report, “Recommended Allowable Cut Polices for Managing BLM Forest Lands in Western Oregon”
1999.53.6:
1953 magazine article: “The Revested Oregon and California Railroad Grant Lands: A Problem in Land Management,” by Wesley C. Ballaine
1999.53.13:
1962 BLM booklet, 25th anniversary O&C Sustained Yield Act
1999.53.17:
1968 Department of the Interior book: Public Land Management, Identification of Problems—Analysis of Causes
1999.53.16:
1953 thesis by Rodney Oscar Fety on forest policies of the BLM “as they affect the management and administration of the Oregon and California Railroad” lands
1999.53.18:
1940 Department of the Interior report: Forest Conservation on Lands Administered by the Department of the Interior
1999.53.17:
1944 U.S. House of Representatives hearings relating to administrative jurisdiction of certain public lands in the state of Oregon
1999.53.19:
1943 Senate hearings on O&C Railroad grant lands

Location
M45 F 3
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