Soap Creek Valley · Monograph #2 · 16 of 30
Women in Forestry
Women in Forestry of Paul M. Dunn — printed p. 25 — recorded November 2, 1978 at Peavy Hall, Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Jackson, Royal G. and Jennifer A. Lee 1990. Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #02, 2nd printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 53 pp
p. 47 = printed page 47 of the original book; the link on each page number is a permanent address you can send to anyone.
Provenance
- From
- #2 Paul M. Dunn
- Narrator
- Paul M. Dunn
- Recorded
- November 2, 1978 · Peavy Hall, Oregon State University campus, Corvallis, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Royal G. Jackson, Jennifer Lee
- Printed pages
- p. 25
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/02_Dunn/Jackson-Lee_1990.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Paul M. Dunn: outlined. It was decided that it would be beneficial for some of the areas to be harvested. In the early period there was a logging operation on the forest. Subsequently, it was the judgement of the Forestry staff, that certain areas could be thinned and certain trees be removed.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Who made those decisions?
Paul M. Dunn: The Forestry staff.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: So no one individual decided?
Paul M. Dunn: No, not at that time. We didn't have a Forest Manager, which we do now. But it was by agreement - staff decision - primarily the Logging Engineering group in consultation with the Forest Management group as to a sensible utilization of the forest area.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: When and who was the first manager appointed then?
Paul M. Dunn: Let's look back in my record book. Professor Harry Nettleton was the first man who was appointed and designated as having responsibility as manager of the whole area.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: How was he as the manager of the forest?
Paul M. Dunn: He was satisfactory.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Did he meet the goals that you had set?
Paul M. Dunn: Yes. He carried out a good program. He was a Forestry graduate from the School here with considerable experience in forest industry. I think he served a period with the Indian Service. He was capable. He was a staff member, one of the instructors.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: How would you have regarded a woman in the School of Forestry in your day?
Paul M. Dunn: Over a period of years, that point never came up because there were no prospective female students. In some of the other forestry schools there was an occasional woman student, and I recall one that graduated in the 1930's. However, during the war period there were two women enrolled in forestry at Oregon State, and one of them graduated.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: How were they regarded by the professors and other students?
Paul M. Dunn: As normal students.
Royal Jackson / Jennifer Lee: Well, I understand that Dean McCulloch discouraged females from entering the School, and I understand also that Dean Peavy would not accept the fact that women. .
Speaker attribution inferred from typography where the printed page prints only Q and A.
How to cite this item
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- As printed
- Jackson, Royal G. and Jennifer A. Lee 1990. Paul M. Dunn. Biographical Sketch and Story of the Adair Tract, Benton County, Oregon. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #02, 2nd printing. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 53 pp
- This page
- Dunn 1990. Women in Forestry, p. 25. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m02-dunn/women-in-forestry/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Dunn 1990, p. 25 — Monograph #02:25
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