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A.. Smith Hill Wildlife
A.. Smith Hill Wildlife of James Hanish — printed pp. 1–2 — recorded January 13, 1990 at Berry Creek, Dunn Forest tracts, OSU Research Forests, Benton County, Oregon. Every printed page has its own permanent link.
Zybach, Bob and Kevin Sherer 1994. James Hanish. Biographical Sketch and a Tour of Berry Creek, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930-1938. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #06. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 85 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
- #6 James Hanish
- Narrator
- James Hanish
- Recorded
- January 13, 1990 · Berry Creek, Dunn Forest tracts, OSU Research Forests, Benton County, Oregon
- Interviewer
- Bob Zybach, Kevin Sherer
- Printed pages
- pp. 1–2
- Original
- http://www.nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Oral_Histories/Soap_Creek_Valley/06_Hanish/Zybach-Sherer_1994.pdf
- Accessioned
- From Bob Zybach’s upload, 23 August 2026
Part I.
January 13, 1990: Berry Creek Tour
A. Smith Hill Wildlife
Bob Zybach: Do you mind giving us your memories of them right now?
James Hanish: Yeah, if I can remember anything that I can tell you about it.
Bob Zybach: Okay. Right now we're near stop 2 [of the Soap Creek Auto Tour], we're looking to the due east on what is called Smith Hill now and with James Hanish. And Jim, could you tell me what this hill used to be called, as you recall?
James Hanish: It used to be called, as I remember, Polks Hill, P-o-l-k-s, named after the family that had that farmland there [family of Bert Folks]. And on top there was . . . thought there was rattlesnakes but only at the extreme top. But I never hunted up there, but that was sort of a valley landmark.
Bob Zybach: Do you recall when any. . . who told you that there rattlesnakes there?
James Hanish: Local neighbors. It was not advisory to go up there in the hot summer like August or September.
Bob Zybach: Can you remember any other types of wildlife that. . . was there any talk of wolves or bears?
James Hanish: No.
Bob Zybach: Or opossums or anything else associated with this hill?
James Hanish: No, we didn't have opossums in here at that time, we had mostly some fox, and no bears or wolves. And occasionally, once in a while, a wild cat, but they were very scarce. But mostly it . . . most of the animal life was deer.
Bob Zybach: On the foxes, were those grey foxes or red foxes?
James Hanish: They reported caught and trapped is a red fox. They were mostly found out in the extreme valley because the wildlife like young pheasants and chickens and stuff would belong to ranchers.
Bob Zybach: Do you recall when the red foxes were being trapped, what years?
James Hanish: Oh, in the '30's, as far as I can remember back. And there wasn't any mink or beaver here at that time in any of these creeks.
Bob Zybach: No beaver at all?
[Withheld from this edition pending review. The page keeps its printed number and its permanent link, so a citation to it still lands here.]
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
- Zybach, Bob and Kevin Sherer 1994. James Hanish. Biographical Sketch and a Tour of Berry Creek, Benton and Polk Counties, Oregon: 1930-1938. Soap Creek Valley History Project, Monograph #06. Oregon State University Research Forests and College of Forestry, Corvallis, Oregon: 85 pp.
- This page
- Hanish 1994. A.. Smith Hill Wildlife, pp. 1–2. America's School Trust Library, The Zybach Collection. https://schooltrusts.org/collections/zybach/soap-creek/m06-hanish/a-smith-hill-wildlife/ (accessed 2026).
- Cite this passage
- Hanish 1994, p. 1 — Monograph #06:1
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