Robert Wolf interview, 1989 Nov. 14.

ArchivalResource

Robert Wolf interview, 1989 Nov. 14.

Robert Wolf takes up the early history of log exports, the Morse Amendment of 1968, differences between Alaska and the lower 48 states, abuse of the Tongass Forest in Alaska, Native American sales to Japan, the role of Western Forest Industries Association, the roles of Senator Wayne Morse, Senator Warren Magnuson, and Senator Henry Jackson, export statistics, effects, the role of labor, Weyerhaeuser, and the emotion and economics of Alaskan contracts.

Sound recording: 1 sound cassette.Transcript: 24 leaves ; 28 cm.

Related Entities

There are 12 Entities related to this resource.

United States

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f874hn (corporateBody)

Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 with post offices being established as early as 1876. From the guide to the Franklin County, Idaho Post Office Location Records, 1876-1945, (Utah State University. Special Collections and Archives) These photographs document Region 4, started in 1910, of the US Forest Service, covering Utah, Nevada, Southern Idaho, and Western Wyoming. From the guide to the US Forest Service Photograph Collection., 19...

Morse, Wayne L. (Wayne Lyman), 1900-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cp7vdh (person)

Wayne Lyman Morse (October 20, 1900 – July 22, 1974) was an American attorney and United States Senator from Oregon. Morse is well known for opposing his party's leadership and for his opposition to the Vietnam War on constitutional grounds. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, and educated at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota Law School, Morse moved to Oregon in 1930 and began teaching at the University of Oregon School of Law. During World War II, he was elected to the U.S....

Magnuson, Warren G. (Warren Grant), 1905-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7rzv (person)

Warren Grant Magnuson (b. April 12, 1905, Moorhead, Minn.-d. May 20, 1989, Seattle, Wash.), a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the State of Washington, graduated from the University of Washington law school in 1929 and served in several local and state-wide political posts until 1936 when he was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Congress. During the Second World War he served in the U.S. Navy attaining the rank of lieutenant commander. He was a member of the Senate from 1944 to 1981, se...

Jackson, Henry M. (Henry Martin), 1912-1983

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pr85n7 (person)

Jackson's tenure in the House was briefly interrupted by service in the U.S. Army. He enlisted in 1943, but was recalled by President Roosevelt to congressional service after basic training. Jackson was assigned to the Government Operations Committee's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, a position which quickly put him at the center of the un-American activities controversies and in the national spotlight. He won recognition ...

United States. Congress. Senate

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc0tzx (corporateBody)

Weyerhaeuser Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m951rp (corporateBody)

Jackson, David H., 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wq8srj (person)

Western Forest Industries Association.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp4s8v (corporateBody)

Robert Wolf Oral History Project (K. Ross Toole Archives)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f80g1v (corporateBody)

Hall, Dan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65t3rtn (person)

Wolf, Robert, 1920-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dr324w (person)

Robert Wolf (1920-2005) was a professional forester and a forest policy analyst in Washington, D.C., whose career spanned forty-five years with the USDA Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of the Budget, the U.S. Senate, and the Congressional Research Service. Wolf attended Columbia University in New York, N.Y., and received a bachelors and a masters degree from the New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse. While in college, he worked in a sawmill, and fo...

United States. Forest Service

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qn9w3d (corporateBody)

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...