Soap Creek Valley · Timeline
1951–1970
1951–1970. 170 dated statements, each one printed exactly as it was said or written, with the narrator and the page.
- 1951
He finished here in Business in 1951.
- 1951
We set up the program in 1951, I think it was, and prepared a timber sale on the Adair Tract which brought a return of $201,000 for 7,000,000 feet of timber which was only a portion of the total timber.
- 1951
Barracks Photograph. In 1951 the U.S. Army sold surplus buildings to local landowners and other buyers.
- 1951
In 1951 I was promoted to full professor and head of the department.
- 1951
In 1951 he was appointed Head of the F.E.
- 1951
Students of the class of 1951 and ‘52 completed the work.
- 1951-07
No, Bob left Corvallis in 1950 for graduate study at Columbia, and finished in 1951 and joined U.S. Steel in July 1951, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- 1952
He received a scholarship to New York University and received a master's degree in Merchandising in 1952.
- 1952
In 1952, Dunn was granted a year's leave of absence from OSU to assist the government of Chile in establishing a school of forest engineering at the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile.
- 1952
And the wind blew down through that gap there from Kings Valley in the wintertime, and my brother was working hard and he had trouble with his lungs or something, so he decided he had better get out of there so he moved to Arizona, and well, they had given him in 1952 ten years to live because he'd had
- 1952
In 1952 she married Harry Murphy in Portland; he preceded her death.
- 1952
So this would be somewhere between 1952 and 1957, somewhere?
- 1952
Well, it was about 1952, ‘53.
- 1953
Then he entered the Naval Reserve Program and was commissioned in 1953, and spent the next three years with the Navy, based at Pearl Harbor.
- 1953
Charles Hindes poses with a big log salvaged from the Tillamook Burn along the Miami River, Tillamook county, Oregon, in 1953.
- 1953
Up to 1953, it was a game refuge with no hunting allowed.
- 1953
In 1953, they started this controlled hunt, and from 1953 to 1973 it was set up to where we had a well-regulated hunt, and an average of 300 deer were harvested per year.
- 1953
About 1953, a large sale was put up for bid and the price was bid to about $40 per thousand board feet.
- 1953-01-04
I don't know his birthdate (January 4, 1953).
- 1953-06-14
He was married June 14, 1953.
- 1954
In 1954, that job with Umpqua Plywood, I still had Bill James to work with some, but I also had a general logging manager who’d come on the scene and been there a year and a half or so.
- 1954
We started in 1954.
- 1954
This event came to an end in 1954, when a dance was held at the Forestry Club Cabin in November.
- 1954
We started that in 1954, and in 1956 we started doing some work for the University.
- 1954
Then, in 1954, I went to work as a contract logger with my brother-in-law as a partner.
- 1955
The program was actually initiated at Oregon State in 1955.
- 1955
He led the School of Forestry and the Laboratory at OSU with great style until 1955.
- 1955
In 1955 he joined the St. Regis Paper Company in New York City as technical director of forestry.
- 1955
From 1955 to 1976, he was a member of the Advisory Committee for the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, U.S.D.A. From 1964 to 1973, he was a member of the McIntire-Stennis Federal Forestry Research Committee.
- 1955
And in the meantime, from 1915 until somewhere around 1955 or something, I'm only guessing, there had been a lot of this second growth.
- 1955
But, in the fall of 1955, I think the spring of 1956, we had been working closely with the Extension Service, and about that year they hired a part-time forester position in the Benton County Extension, who was Martin Thingvold.
- 1955-03-20
[The following account was published in The Oregonian Sunday, March 20, 1955.
- 1955-07-01/1956-06-30
Work Program, July 1, 1955 through June 30, 1956 (Four man summer crew plus student labor during school year)
- 1956
It must have been done after 1956.
- 1956
My brother and I were up here in 1956 deer hunting and we found parts of the old dam.
- 1956
I know the school burned that down in 1956 or something.
- 1956
The 40 acres that were set up as a demonstration area, that we thinned in 1956, had scattered wind-throw in the stands, but not enough to change the stand compositions.
- 1956
Then, 1956 we did an experimental thinning for the…, actually it was cooperative between the School of Forestry and the county agent.
- 1956
Before 1956, there was very little done with the timber stands.
- 1956
The miles of all-weather roads increased from about 50 miles to a total of over 110 miles from 1956 to 1996.
- 1956
But, anyway, we got started on this tract in 1956, logging a 40-acre demonstration plot, and that 40 acres in itself had all kinds of interest to it.
- 1956
In 1956, my partner and I negotiated a contract to fall two-thousand snags in an old burn area with an option to salvage any merchantable wood at $10 per thousand board feet stumpage.
- 1956
Lessons learned from this work were tried on McDonald Forest beginning in 1956.
- 1956
Major cold snap affects region, including Soap Creek Valley area
- 1956-12
From December 1956 to June 1957 he was chairman of the Task Force on Forest Products for the President's Bipartisan Commission on Industrial Use of Agricultural Products.
- 1957
Interesting sidelight to this, is that in 1957 after the College had a bunch of this timber land up there, they called me up one day and says "Hey, what do you know about doing wood rat control?" This was a bushy footed wood rat, I think.
- 1957
There was nothing really commercial until the first commercial thinning that we did when Nettleton and I set it up in 1957 and hired Marv Rowley, who had a small operation, to come and do it.
- 1957
Then he came over and started that first cutting in 1957.
- 1957
We did that job, and then we negotiated a sale on a forest in 1957, I think it was, up on Oak Creek.
- 1957
From Oak Creek we logged ‘bout 300,000 feet, I think, off that sale, in the fall of 1957, early spring of 1958.
- '57
I think probably sometime along about ‘57 or ‘58.
- '57
That was toward the fall and the spring of the next year, which I think would take us into the spring of ‘57.
- '57
We’d run through this in ‘57 and ‘58.
- 1957-05-22
[The following photograph was published on the 12th page of The Corvallis Gazette Times on Wednesday, May 22, 1957.]
- 1957-06-26
[This was published in The Corvallis Gazette Times, Corvallis, Oregon Wednesday, June 26, 1957.]
- 1958
He became a registered professional engineer in Oregon in 1958.
- 1958
The poem is from the 1958 Annual Cruise and the award is copied from Bill Davies' framed original.
- 1958
One company in western Oregon, which operates a very efficient gang mill, paid $55 to $60 per 1000 board feet for small logs down to 6 inches in diameter during 1958.
- 1958
Well, Harry Nettleton retired in 1958 or 1959.
- 1958
I think he retired in 1958.
- 1958-06
To Bill Davies: The Class of 1958 dedicates this Annual Cruise.
- 1959/1960
(I have learned that the Boy Scouts used this building for less than three months during 1959 or 1960. They started making wood shakes for the roof but left because of vandalism of their materials.)
- 1959
Anyway, they hired Nettleton as the manager; and he was manager until 1959.
- 1959
That was back in 1959 that we set those priorities up, because there was some conflict between certain types of recreation, and our instruction and research.
- 1959
In 1959 the chore of forest manager was added, and in 1973 I was retired.
- 1959
It was before I became manager of the forest, and I think I became manager in 1959.
- 1959
In 1959, we were able to negotiate contracts with the University where they would sell the logs, and we would do the logging for them.
- 1959
So from 1959 to 1973, this was basically it.
- 1959
I think Bill Davies took over as a part-time manager in 1959 until 1973.
- 1959
And then Harry Nettleton retired in 1959, and Bill Davies took over as forest manager.
- 1959
Anyway, in 1959, we negotiated a two-year contract.
- 1959
In 1959, when we started this contracting, we’d sit down with Bill and decide what our scope of operations was going to be, where we were going to start, and how we would carry out the contract.
- 1959
It would be 1959.
- 1959
You mean you continued with the ten-year plan started in 1959?
- 1959
Was that the ten-year plan from 1959?
- 1959
My firm was the lone bidder, and we purchased every sale put up for bid until Harry retired in 1959.
- 1959-06-30
Presented at Session VII, Logging, FPRS 13th National Meeting, June 30, 1959.
- 1960s
So in the functions they had in the '60's when they were first trying to get things going, then those were pretty well attended?
- 1960
No, this house was here; it was eight years old. It was built by the Hollisters.
- 1960s
Marvin Rowley (1979) remembers a school house that was still at the townsite as late as the 1960's. It was used for storage at that time.
- 1960s
Since the early 1960s, our management plan called for removing these small-event happenings on a yearly basis, so it didn’t leave a place for insects to build up.
- 1960s
During the 1960s, I found the remains of this mill and several shacks that had been used to house the mill crew.
- 1960s
Sometime in the early 1960s, the College of Forestry had a grant of money given to improve the Arboretum.
- 1960s
In the early 1960s, we had a tour of Forest Service personnel visiting our thinning operation.
- 1960
During these times, about 1960 and ‘61, we had a fellow, Bill Lickey, who is one of the partners in Century West Engineering now.
- 1960s
They started that in the 1960s.
- '60s
And I don’t remember when I first found this, whether it was in the ‘60s or the ‘70s!
- 1960-04
Published in the April 1960 issue of the Forest Product Journal, pp.187-189.
- 1961
FACULTY FLASHBACK - 1961
- 1961
Once Susan had typed a soil north of Calloway Creek as a well-drained soil type, and I asked her to go back and check it because, when I built a road through the site in 1961, I had found it to be very poor-drained soil.
- 1961
They tore it down in 1961.
- 1962
I was offered a position with St. Regis Paper Company in New York City, as Technical Forester, which later was changed to Director of Forestry, then in 1962, I was made a Vice President in charge of Forestry and Forest Lands.
- 1962
In 1962 he became vice president in charge of timber lands.
- 1962
But, you can probably go for four years then it will turn to cancer." This was in 1962.
- 1962
Oh yeah, we had a grade A dairy here and I milked cows here until 1962 I guess.
- 1962
A SILVER CAKE PLATE was awarded by the Corvallis Gazette-Times -to Mrs. Ralph Rowie, "Benton's Best Cook of 1962" at the Bentori County Fair program last night.
- 1962
This photograph of Velma Rawie was published in the Corvallis Gazette-Times in 1962.
- 1962
Murphy discovered an unnamed clover in 1962, which was named "Trifolium owyheense" by the botany department at Oregon State University.
- 1962
The other thing that kind of enters into this is the Columbus Day Storm of 1962.
- 1962
He subcontracted under our contract for a two-year period, in 1962, winter ‘63.
- 1962
Like I say, most of my operation today is guided by what happened in 1962.
- 1962
This stand right here was done at the Columbus Day storm in 1962, it blew the overstory down and left a scattering of trees and that was coming in as as understory.
- 1962
Columbus Day hurricane from the south
- October 12 1962
When Royal Jackson interviewed you in 1979, you said the Columbus Day Storm of October 12, 1962, was a major shaper of the forest that continued to define the management decisions up to then.
Sources disagree
- October 12 1962
Many of them were blown over by the October 12, 1962, wind storm.
Sources disagree
- October 12 1962
We just got underway, making good headway, and October 12, 1962, a storm hit.
Sources disagree
- 1962-10-14
Windfall resulting from the October 14, 1962 Columbus Day storm caused an immediate increase in local clearcut logging and a more thorough continuation of previously established salvage logging operations (see Table 16; Jackson 1980; Rowley 1996; Davies 1997).
Sources disagree
- 1963
From 1963 to 1981 he was president of Gulf Pine Co., Inc., a subsidiary of St. Regis.
- 1963
Yeah, when we built that road up there, west fork of Oak Creek Road, the 6020 Road in 1963.
- '63
Right here . . . we built the road in ‘63, and in ‘74 or ‘75 I replaced this culvert right here.
- 1963
But right in over there beyond that bigger tree is where I can remember the flume structure being intact yet in 1963.
- 1963-1999
Since 1963, changes that have affected forest cover patterns of Soap Creek Valley include the widespread establishment of conifer plantations in old clearcuts (including those associated with the Columbus Day Storm) and prairie lands acquired by OSU, establishment of a major solid waste landfill to the south of Coffin Butte
- 1963-1999
Conifer forestland has continued to increase in area, and commercial agricultural uses have decreased during this period. Dramatic increases in human population have been accompanied by corresponding increases in pet populations, secondary road and driveway constructions, lawn and ornamental plantation establishments, and home building projects.
- 1964
How about 1964 flooding?
- 1964
There was a mass failure on the West Fork of Oak Creek that was caused by four-wheel-drive vehicles using a skid road and destroying the water bars before the 1964 flood.
- 1964
This was in use until the State Forestry Department moved from Peavy Arboretum to Philomath in 1964.
- 1964
When the State Forestry Department Office moved from Peavy Arboretum to Philomath in 1964, they moved the building they used as an office with them to Philomath.
- 1964
In 1964, we ended that type of contract and Bill went to work with an engineer down at Oak Ridge.
- 1964
By 1964, we had it out, and we had equipment that was sitting around, or we were wondering what we were going to do with it.
- 1964
In 1964 we had the big flood?
- '64
And in ‘64 the water came right up to going over the road and went down again.
- '64
Well, the four-wheelers over the next 10–15 years had got in there and cut out every waterbar and in ‘64 when that flood hit the water came from the top of the hill down and through all these failed waterbars and the only one that didn’t fail is the one on the rock.
- 1964
1964, the year of the flood, and all the mass land failures, from right
- 1964
This little slide out right here happened in 1964.
- 1964
So all these happened about the same time in 1964.
- 1964
Yeah, in 1964, they happened all the same day.
- 1964
In 1964 we had one of those unusual deals, they had, I don’t know, something like six inches of rain that fell in a week or two-week period.
- 1965
it was really the instigation of the preservation in that first letter, I would say, in 1965.
- 1965
I think, because of health, he stepped down in 1965.
- 1965
And we were producing about six million feet annually by 1965.
- 1965
In 1965, Bill Davies and I took a trip to the Southeast.
- 1965
But, from 1965 to 1973, I was pretty close to it.
- 1965-01-22
the first letter was started in January 22, 1965, and it was sent to the Benton County Rural School Board at the County Courthouse. It was sent by Mrs. Warren Bacon and Mrs. Dick Nordahl
- 1966
Carbon monoxide in our big cities and putting millions more internal combustion cars every year when in 1966 a steam car would outperform them.
- 1966
The oil co. still try to tell us about the water troughs every five miles on the roads but in 1966 a steam car could go 1500 miles without stopping for water or oil.
- 1966
In 1966, I was involved in a resurvey of the area to check all this data.
- 1966
Anyway, when, about 1966, my partner and I took a third partner, Gary Ferguson, we also purchased a tower.
- 1966
Housing subdivisions for urban commuters begin to appear in Soap Creek area
- 1967
right here in this one where it tells about the box social which was in 1967, it says "proceeds from the sale will be used to install electricity and to make other improvements."
- 1967
The School House Foundation started in '67, by '69 the electricity in, they opened up to the public and they had a meeting
- 1967-08-18
August 18, 1967, it says that "the school house is now open to the public,"
- 1967-09-28
The only date that I have is this one 1967, in August and September 28, 1967 and then this one.
- 1968
In '68.
- 1968
I think when we moved out here it was a twenty acre minimum. And now I think it is five or ten, I'm not sure
- 1968
We came to Oregon in 1968.
- 1968
We moved out West in 1968 to Oregon. We now live on a wooded acreage in the beautiful Soap Creek Valley with our collie dog and two horses.
- 1968
There were probably twelve, approximately ten or twelve families living in the valley. We knew everybody that lived here and by name.
- 1968
Yes, and retired in 1968.
- 1968
He retired from St. Regis in 1968, and he and Mrs. Dunn returned to Corvallis to live.
- 1968
Dunn received many important honors and awards, including the Iowa State University Alumni Association's Distinguished Achievement Award in 1968, the Western Forestry and Conservation award for Lifetime Service in 1971, and the Society of American Forester's Gifford Pinchot Award for Outstanding Service to Professional Forestry in 1975, and Utah State University's Centennial Award for an Exceptionally Distinguished Career in 1987.
- 1969/1970
apparently replanted them back which this was done back in about 1969 or '70 or somewhere in there that she did that.
- 1969
In 1969 down here it was that bad.
- 1969
It was '69.
- 1969
Had the same thing south of town here, in 1969.
- 1969
George Jemison joined our faculty in 1969 after 38 years with the U.S.
- 1969
In 1969, we had removed wind-thrown trees from an east-sloping hill on the Dunn Forest and machine piled and burned the slash.
- '69
We were looking at finishing that by ‘69.
- 1969
About 1969, I think, I had 50 men on payroll one summer, and, like I say, grossed $1,200,000, netted $15,000 apiece, which makes a guy kind of an automatic check-writing machine.
- December 1969
The next year, in December 1969 and January 1970, we clearcut-harvested 30 acres of scattered timber on the north side of Mitzy Point at the head of Oak Creek.
- December 1969
December 1969 - January ‘70, and this is where Eric Forsman had his spotted owl and spotted it.
- 1970s
It had ceased operations by the early 1970s].
- 1970s
[Footnote] Brady Bunch was a popular television show in 1970s.
- 1970
My first experience directing student work crews started about 1970.
- 1970s
I lost it some time in the 1970s.
- 1970
Anyway, in 1970, we cut down on the size of our crew and basically pulled back.
- '70s
Early ‘70s maybe.
- '70s
Was this in the late ‘70s?
- '70s
Yeah, it was during the ‘70s.
- January 1 1970
From 1966, January of 1966 to January 1, 1970, there were three of us in the partnership, and we logged high, wide, and handsome, you might say, all over the place.
- 1970-05-01
daily publication, on May 1, 1970, a few years before the retirement of Professor Davies from the School of Forestry.]
