Soap Creek Valley · Timeline
1996–2026
1996–2026. 11 dated statements, each one printed exactly as it was said or written, with the narrator and the page.
- 1996
And about those three boys in the Hindes family, stepbrother, Douglas Gilliam, Norman and Charles Hindes, two are in their early 80's now and the third one will be 78 this year, 1996.
- 1996-03
In retirement all three continue to reside in their birth state, Oregon, not far from Soap Creek. -- Charles Hindes, March, 1996.
- 1998
The earliest documentation of this type was purposefully gathered in 1998 to record a 360-degree panorama of The Valley from its floor and a 270-degree panorama from Lewisburg Saddle (Zybach & Fraser 1998).
- 1999
Dominant trends continue to be decreased numbers and varieties of large wild vertebrates (since 1811), increased variety of introduced plants and animals (since 1826), increased human population (since 1832), decreased grassland area (since 1832), increased conifer forest area (since 1832);
- 1999
...decreased agricultural uses (since 1941), ephemeral land ownership claims (since 1846), decreased wild carnivore populations (since 1846), and smaller residential properties (since 1857).
- 1999
Coffin Butte Landfill catches on fire
- 1999
Three monographs (Rowley 1996; Zybach & Islam 1999; Islam & Zybach 1999a) remain in final draft form and have not been printed or distributed. One monograph (Davies 1997), has been printed, but remains undistributed.
- 1999
In most instances, master copies of monographs were stored at Research Forests offices, original tape recordings were sent to the Oral History Department of the Oregon Historical Society in Portland, Oregon, and original maps, correspondence, photographs, photograph copies, and copies of tape recordings were sent to OSU Archives in Corvallis, Oregon.
- 1999-03-05
SCALE: 1" = 7500' B. Zybach & R.M. Edmond © NW MAPS CO. March 5, 1999
- 1999-06-12
Fig. 34 Coffin Butte landfill, June 12, 1999. Entryway to current landfill operations, near former location of Rohner farmhouse (see Map 9; Rohner 1993).
- 2000
We’d like to have the inventory so it’d fit into the TREES model, which is the computer program that John Beuter used in coming up with the timber harvest supply in western Oregon, by the year 2000.
