The article below is from the Missoulian-Sentinel Centennial Edition 1960 Missoula Emerges as Forest Service Regional Headquarters; Offices in Hammond Block Vast, raw forests were being proclaimed one after another in Montana just after the turn of the century. They were dropped into the lap of a struggling Read More
Calkins worked with several notable Missoulians, including the Toole brothers and Grant Higgins. Blessed with a graphic memory his story covers large parts of Western Montana and Eastern Idaho. While he goes into minute detail about building and grading the first roads in many places, his stories are unique and often humorous. A Read More
Below is a link to an article about Northern Forest Fire Lab in Missoula appeared in the 1961 Industrial Horizons – a publication of the Montana State Planning Board: https://archive.org/stream/montanaindustriamay1961rich#page/2/mode/2up
ELERS KOCH Assistant Regional Forester Timber Management, R.O. (Retired 1944) February 18, 1944 REGION ONE IN THE PRE-REGIONAL OFFICE DAYS By Elers Koch When Gifford Pinchot in 1905 took over the Forest Reserves from the Land Offices, he took with them all the personnel, good, bad, and indifferent. The new Read More
Missoulian Diamond Jubilee Special Section – August 18, 1940 Backward Glance and Forward Look in Forestry ———- By K. D. Swan There is no crowd gathered on the ground twenty-five hundred feet below – no people with up-turned, staring faces waiting to see the show. Just trees. Countless numbers Read More
Bob Marshall In the summer of 1925, a new character appeared in Missoula, one who was to greatly influence the role of forests in Region 1. At this time, Robert Marshall was only 24 years old, but he was already known as an author, conservationist, avid hiker, armchair socialist, and Read More