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Forest Service Records: Inspection Reports, 1919-1923
View digitized contents of this box. From August 1919 to June 1924, AL served as Chief of Operations (Assistant District
Forester in Charge of Operations) for District 3 of the US Forest Service. His
primary responsibility in this position was to conduct inspection tours of the
individual forests within the district and to prepare inspection reports for the
district forester. During his tenure in this position, AL prepared thirteen reports;
copies of all thirteen reports are in this box. The reports offer a unique and valuable view not only into the development of
Forest Service administration, but into the evolution of AL's understanding of
conservation. These were crucial years in AL's changing ideas and activities
involving game management, soil erosion and range management, recreation and
wilderness protection, forest administration, and conservation philosophy. The
inspection reports allow us to trace many of these new directions back to his field
experiences in the Southwest. Reports are arranged chronologically in the box and are labeled by the area
surveyed. In addition to the reports themselves, the folders contain related
correspondence, filed with the reports, between AL, the District Forester, Forest
Supervisors, and Washington officials. The later reports include a substantial
amount of dark and difficult to read pages; these are facsimiles of the original
inspection tally sheets which AL developed, used during inspection, and included in
his reports. Many pages also include margin notes by various readers, particularly
the District Forester. (Later margin notes are those of Curt Meine, AL's
biographer.) The overall quality of the copies varies. Two of the reports (Datil 1919 and
Manzano 1920) were copied from originals at the Federal Records Center in Denver by
Dr. Susan Flader. The others are Xerox copies of Xerox copies; the originals of the
aforementioned reports and the other eleven turned up, after having been presumed
lost, in the files of the Tonto National Forest at forest headquarters in Phoenix,
Arizona. They were located there by Forest Archaeologist Martin MacAllister, and
copies were placed in the UW-Madison Archives in December 1988. An additional folder
contains miscellaneous inspection-related memos and correspondence.
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Inspection Report: Gila National Forest, 1922
View digitized contents of this folder. While AL was inspecting the Gila National Forest (21 May to 27 June, 1922), a
series of intense fires broke out. The inspection report includes AL's "Notes on
Gila Fires." It was also on this trip that AL, with Forest Supervisor Fred Winn,
formalized plans for setting aside the Gila Wilderness Area. The report includes a
map of the proposed roadless area, an extensive plan and policy discussion under
Section I (Lands), and a copy of AL's "Report on Proposed Wilderness Area" of 2
Oct. 1922. 30p, correspondence, maps, misc.
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