Eric White papers, f1914-1957.

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Eric White papers, f1914-1957.

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Eric White was a Helena, Montana, forest ranger. Collection contains correspondence (1914) while he was a farm hand in South Dakota; items (1957) concerning his retirement from the U.S. Forest Service; a copy of a Lewis and Clark County, water resources survey (1957) to which White contributed; a copy of a Forest Service report (1934-1939) on a winter game study; and copies of two Forest Service reports (1953) on the Bear Trap Fire near Helena. This collection contains correspondence to and from Eric White during the summer (1914) he spent as a farmworker in South Dakota; a copy of a Forest Service report on a winter game study, prepared in part by White, 1934-1939; copies of two Forest Service reports relating to the Bear Trap fire near Helena, for which White was co-fire boss, 1953; a copy of a Lewis and Clark County water resources survey (1957), for which White wrote a chapter on "National Forests"; and correspondence and a clipping regarding White's retirement from the U.S. Forest Service, 1957.

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White, Eric, 1896-1992

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Eric White was born on May 13, 1896, in Beltzhoover, Pennsylvania, a borough of Pittsburgh, and he was raised and educated in Pittsburgh. In 1915, with his parents Edwin Matson and Nellie Missouri Bartley White, Eric traveled to Montana to homestead. The White homestead was north of Custer, between the Musselshell and Yellowstone rivers, just east of the Twin Bridges. Following his military service in World War I, Eric became a ranger for the U.S. Forest Service, a position he held until his ret...

United States. Forest Service

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The evolution of the USDA Forest Service is rooted in the General Provision Act of l89l in which Congress authorized the President to designate particular areas of the forested public domain to be set aside as "reserves" for future use. The number and size of these reserves increased notably in l897 when the President was authorized to establish reserves in order to protect watersheds, to preserve timber, and to provide lumber for local use. There was no provision for management or...