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| Submitted photo Rangers gather at the Silver Lake Ranger District for a meeting in 1907. The Fremont and Winema National Forests are planning to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Goose Lake and Fremont forest reserves. The reserves were later combined and renamed the Fremont National Forest. |
October 16, 2006
By LEE JUILLERAT
H&N Regional Editor
It's an obscure anniversary, but a 100th anniversary is almost always worth celebrating.
That's why the Fremont and Winema National Forests are planning festivities in Lakeview and Klamath Falls this month to remember the creation of two forest reserves, which were forerunners to the U.S. Forest Service.
The Goose Lake and Fremont forest reserves were created 100 years ago, the Goose Lake in August 1906 and the Fremont in September 1906.
Two years later, the reserves were combined and renamed the Fremont National Forest. When the Winema National Forest was created in 1961, lands from the terminated Klamath Indian Reservation were supplemented with land transferred from the Fremont.
The Fremont and Winema combined, and the supervisor's office is in Lakeview and the ranger district office is in Klamath Falls.
Two 100th anniversary celebrations will be this month. In Lakeview, an Oct. 24 event will include an open house in Lakeview. The party will move to Klamath Falls Oct. 26 at the Ross Ragland Theater.
Forest information officer Lisa Swinney believes the anniversary will highlight ongoing connections between the federal agencies and communities in Lake and Klamath counties.
“We plan to celebrate a century of service and, more than that, focus on the connection between the communities and the forest,” Swinney said. “There's always been a close tie between the forest and the communities.”
Forest archeologist John Kaiser believes the event should remember and honor early day conservationists who helped preserve threatened western forests by creating forest reserves.
“A 100 years ago the forests back east where being decimated,” Kaiser said, referring to unregulated logging that stripped many forested areas from New York to Minnesota in the late 1800s. “A short while before that, they thought the supply of trees was endless.”
Kaiser credits “visionaries” like Gifford Pinchot, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt with creating forest reserves, which were intended to prevent over-harvesting of timber lands and overgrazing by livestock, including cattle, sheep, horses and even hogs.
Kaiser says combining the reserves - parts of the Fremont were transferred to the Deschutes and Umpqua - and creating a national forest represented acknowledgement the lands were intended to multiple use, including forestry, grazing, mining and recreation.
Forest reserves
The Goose Lake Forest Reserve was established in August 1906, and extended from the Warner Mountains north of the California-Oregon stateline and the area surrounding Dog Lake north to a line between the former Klamath Indian Reservation and Paisley.
The Fremont Forest Reserve was established in September 1906, and included the territory north of the Goose Lake Forest Reserve extending from Paisley almost to Bend.
At the time, the combined area of the two reserves was about 2 million acres.
July 1, 1908, parts of the Fremont were transferred to the Deschutes and Umpqua, and the remaining Fremont and Goose Lake reserves were combined and named the Fremont National Forest. The name was selected by Gilbert D. Brown because Capt. John C. Fremont had explored most of the region.
Local celebrations
The Fremont and Winema have combined, with the supervisor's office in Lakeview and ranger district office in Klamath Falls.
On Oct. 24, 100th anniversary festivities in Lakeview will include an open house with refreshments from 2 to 8 p.m., appearances by Smokey Bear from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., a celebration ceremony at 5 and showing of the movie, “The Greatest Good,” at 6.
The celebration will move to the Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls Oct. 26 with the same schedule of events.
By LEE JUILLERAT
H&N Regional Editor
It's an obscure anniversary, but a 100th anniversary is almost always worth celebrating.
That's why the Fremont and Winema National Forests are planning festivities in Lakeview and Klamath Falls this month to remember the creation of two forest reserves, which were forerunners to the U.S. Forest Service.
The Goose Lake and Fremont forest reserves were created 100 years ago, the Goose Lake in August 1906 and the Fremont in September 1906.
Two years later, the reserves were combined and renamed the Fremont National Forest. When the Winema National Forest was created in 1961, lands from the terminated Klamath Indian Reservation were supplemented with land transferred from the Fremont.
The Fremont and Winema combined, and the supervisor's office is in Lakeview and the ranger district office is in Klamath Falls.
Two 100th anniversary celebrations will be this month. In Lakeview, an Oct. 24 event will include an open house in Lakeview. The party will move to Klamath Falls Oct. 26 at the Ross Ragland Theater.
Forest information officer Lisa Swinney believes the anniversary will highlight ongoing connections between the federal agencies and communities in Lake and Klamath counties.
“We plan to celebrate a century of service and, more than that, focus on the connection between the communities and the forest,” Swinney said. “There's always been a close tie between the forest and the communities.”
Forest archeologist John Kaiser believes the event should remember and honor early day conservationists who helped preserve threatened western forests by creating forest reserves.
“A 100 years ago the forests back east where being decimated,” Kaiser said, referring to unregulated logging that stripped many forested areas from New York to Minnesota in the late 1800s. “A short while before that, they thought the supply of trees was endless.”
Kaiser credits “visionaries” like Gifford Pinchot, John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt with creating forest reserves, which were intended to prevent over-harvesting of timber lands and overgrazing by livestock, including cattle, sheep, horses and even hogs.
Kaiser says combining the reserves - parts of the Fremont were transferred to the Deschutes and Umpqua - and creating a national forest represented acknowledgement the lands were intended to multiple use, including forestry, grazing, mining and recreation.
Forest reserves
The Goose Lake Forest Reserve was established in August 1906, and extended from the Warner Mountains north of the California-Oregon stateline and the area surrounding Dog Lake north to a line between the former Klamath Indian Reservation and Paisley.
The Fremont Forest Reserve was established in September 1906, and included the territory north of the Goose Lake Forest Reserve extending from Paisley almost to Bend.
At the time, the combined area of the two reserves was about 2 million acres.
July 1, 1908, parts of the Fremont were transferred to the Deschutes and Umpqua, and the remaining Fremont and Goose Lake reserves were combined and named the Fremont National Forest. The name was selected by Gilbert D. Brown because Capt. John C. Fremont had explored most of the region.
Local celebrations
The Fremont and Winema have combined, with the supervisor's office in Lakeview and ranger district office in Klamath Falls.
On Oct. 24, 100th anniversary festivities in Lakeview will include an open house with refreshments from 2 to 8 p.m., appearances by Smokey Bear from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., a celebration ceremony at 5 and showing of the movie, “The Greatest Good,” at 6.
The celebration will move to the Ross Ragland Theater in Klamath Falls Oct. 26 with the same schedule of events.
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