Soap Creek Valley History Project OralHistories 1978-1995 1989-1995

Rohner, John Jacob.

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Murphy, Bessie.

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Oregon State University. College of Forestry

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The first forestry class was taught at OSU in 1896 and ten years later the first four-year degree program was established. Forestry was elevated to school status in 1913, with George Peavy as its first dean, and became a college in 1984. Graduate work was authorized in 1921; the Ph. D. program began in 1959. The Deans of the College have included: George Peavy (1910-1940), Earl G. Mason (1936-1942), Paul M. Dunn (1942-1955), Walter McCulloch (1955-1966), Carl H. Stoltenberg (1967-1990), George W...

Soap Creek Schoolhouse Foundation

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Olson, Charlie.

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Jackson, Royal G.

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Basque sheepherders immigrated from northern Spain and southwestern France to southeastern Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada from the 1890s until the early 1920s. They worked as itinerant herders on the mountain ranges of Harney County until the 1930s and often spent the winters in Basque boarding houses or hotels, such as the Star Hotel in Burns. The Taylor Grazing Act, drought, and the depression brought an end to the sheep industry in Harney County. The Basques of Harney County, Oregon, Oral History ...

Sekermestrovich, Edward.

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Camp Arboretum (Benton County, Or.)

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OSU Research Forests

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The Soap Creek Valley History Project was initially authorized in 1989 by Dr. William Atkinson, Director of the Oregon State University Research Forests. Funding for the project was provided by the Oregon State University College of Forestry. The project included the transcription and publication of interviews conducted before 1989 as well as conducting new interviews which were published as a series of monographs. All of the new interviews done in 1989-1991 were conducted by Bob Zybach, who als...

Rawie, Velma Carter.

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Hanish, James.

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Cook, Wanda Marcks.

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Grabe, Lorna.

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Dickey, Donald.

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.). Company 3503 (Benton County, Or.)

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Vanderburg, Neil.

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Dunn, Paul M.

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Glender, Eugene.

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OSU Research Forests. Soap Creek Valley History Project.

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Rohner, Wilma.

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Zybach, Bob

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Bob Zybach was a reforestation contractor in western Oregon in the 1970s and 1980s and was President of Phoenix Reforestation, Inc. from 1972 to 1992. Zybach earned a BS in Forest Recreation Management in 1991; a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies in Forest Ecology, Cultural Anthropology, and Historical Archeology in 1999; and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences in 2003 -- all from Oregon State University. From the description of Bob Zybach collection, 1972-1990 (bulk 1978-198...