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The Zybach Collection · Elliott State Forest · Place

Cougar Pass

gap / fire lookout site · also: Cougar Pass Lookout, Cougar Pass CCC Fire Lookout

What the Elliott State Forest records hold for this place: 1 indexed interview stop, 1 field-trip stop, 6 videos, 9 photographs.

Provenance

How the coordinate was found
coordinate read from Bob’s route map
How far to trust it
inferred
Precision
Read off Bob Zybach's hand-labeled tour-route map (Zybach-Ross_20171010-10.jpg, "Elliott Forest Oral History Tour, October 10, 2017"): stop marker #A-23 (marker 23) and the map's "Cougar Pass Lookout" symbol falls in PLSS T23S R10W 3 (Willamette Meridian). Coordinate is the centroid of that section from BLM CadNSDI; accuracy about +/-0.5 mile. Not a surveyed position for the named feature. Not in GNIS for Coos/Douglas (the two Oregon "Cougar Pass" GNIS entries are in Lane and NE Douglas counties and are different features). Tower built 1935 by the CCC (Phillips 1998: 92-94).
Feature type
gap / fire lookout site
Accession
Accessioned from Bob Zybach’s upload to the shared Drive, 2026-08-23.

43.598392, -123.865785 inferred found with read from Bob’s route map

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This place (1)

What was said here

Bob Zybach's own index rows for this place. Each page number opens the transcript at that page; each tape side opens the recording's entry on the interview page.

StopInterviewTapeMinuteTopicPagePhotos
#A-232017-10-103-B4:15Cougar Pass CCC Fire Lookout9715
1 stops indexed 15

Interview #2. October 10, 2017: Elk Ridge Road to Loon Lake & Umpqua River

Field-trip stops

This place is a numbered stop on Bob Zybach's Elliott field trips.

On video

Videos whose time-coded description names this place. Each entry opens the video page, where the time code cues the embed.

Photographs taken here

9 photographs in 1 place group . Each image is served from the creator's own site, orww.org, and opens there at full size.

Cougar Pass (9)

  • Cougar Pass, frame 0904, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0904, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0905, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0905, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0909, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0909, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0911, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0911, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0912, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0912, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0913, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0913, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0914, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0914, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0915, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0915, 2017-10-10
  • Cougar Pass, frame 0916, 2017-10-10Cougar Pass, frame 0916, 2017-10-10

Where a photograph carries no printed caption, the label shown is the place and frame number from the file itself, not a caption by the photographer.

Where the coordinate comes from

Rights

The recordings, transcripts, photographs and maps linked from these pages are Bob Zybach’s own public files on orww.org. The Library links to them and shows small display copies of his photographs. The interviews are described by OSU SCARC finding aid, OH 047.

How to cite this item

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Cougar Pass, Elliott State Forest places list, The Zybach Collection.
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