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Center for Columbia River History Oral Histories, 1998-2000
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Center for Columbia River History
- Title
- Center for Columbia River History Oral Histories
- Dates
- 1998-2000 (inclusive)19982000
- Quantity
- 289 audio-cassette tapes, analog.
- Collection Number
- SR 2700.1 (collection)
- Summary
- This collection documents social, political, economic, scientific, and technological changes in the Columbia River Basin since the building of large federal hydroelectric dams began in the 1930s. The collection adds significantly to Columbia Basin history through its focus on dissent regarding Columbia River dams, and the varied impacts of dam building to communities in the basin. It is composed of one large project, Columbia River Dissenters, conducted by the Oregon Historical Society in partnership with the Center for Columbia River History, and five smaller projects conducted from Center for Columbia River History offices and through Portland State University. The smaller projects document changes in representative communities within the basin: Camas, Washington; Cottage Grove, Oregon; Columbia Slough, Oregon; Umatilla, Oregon; Sandpoint, Idaho. The community histories were part of a web exhibit project using the collected oral histories, primary documents and photographs. Biographical and subject specific interviews were collected on audio cassette tape between 1998 and 2000, and all have been transcribed save some of the interviews from the Cottage Grove and Camas projects.
- Repository
-
Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
-
The collection is open to the public. Patrons may listen to service copies during library hours in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. Transcripts are also available. Some transcripts are available on the Internet on the Center for Columbia River History Web Site; however, others are only available for public viewing in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. Some restrictions to individual interviews may apply. When applicable, restrictions are noted for individual interviews.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Historical NoteReturn to Top
In 1997, the Center for Columbia River History (CCRH), a regional consortium of the Washington State Historical Society, Washington State University, and Portland State University received funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the Columbia River Basin Project (CRBP). The Center for Columbia River History promotes broad public discussions about Columbia River Basin History and its connection to the present. To do so, the organization applies critical historical methodology, engages directly with Columbia River Basin communities, and through special projects, creates educational public history products on-line, in print, and through public educational programs.
The CCRH Columbia River Basin Project was a three-pronged project that included two oral history components. The first was through the Columbia River Dissenter's Project at the oral history office in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. The second was through collecting oral histories to create community history web exhibits at the offices of the Center for Columbia River History. The third prong of the CRBP, a curriculum project conducted through Stevenson High School, did not focus on oral history.
The Oregon Historical Society component of the Columbia River Basin Project produced 59 interviews. The Columbia River Dissenters Project focused on groups and individuals who organized and acted in opposition to or with a different vision of management of the Columbia River than officials such as the Army Corps of Engineers, Bonneville Power Administration, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. OHS staff member Clark Hansen, directed by oral historian Dr. James Strassmaier, interviewed key individuals who contributed to the shaping of policies that have had and continue to have enormous effect on the region. Research assistants from Portland State University, Dannette Rowe and Tania Hyatt, contributed to the project through their work in the oral history office at the Oregon Historical Society.
The Columbia Communities Project through the Center for Columbia River History office focused on the histories of eight selected communities on the Columbia River: Camas, Washington (7 interviews); Columbia Basin Native Fishery; Columbia Slough, Oregon (23 interviews), Cottage Grove, Oregon (11 interviews); Crewport, Washington; Moses Lake, Washington; Sandpoint, Idaho (4 interviews); Umatilla, Oregon (14 interviews). The project explored how communities - whether defined by work, family, culture, persistence, or place - were impacted by dam building from the mid-to-late twentieth century. The 59 interviews conducted for the Camas, Columbia Slough, Cottage Grove, Umatilla, and Sandpoint Community History Projects are housed at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. Additional interviews conducted for Moses Lake, Washington and Sandpoint, Idaho in an earlier phase (1996 NEH grant) of the project are held at appropriate repositories in Washington State and Idaho. Those collected after funding by the Department of Education in 1997 are held at the Oregon Historical Society. Interviews collected for Crewport, Washington are held by Yakima Valley Community.
Interviews for the Camas, Columbia Slough, Cottage Grove, Umatilla, and Sandpoint Community History web sites were collected by Center for Columbia River History staff, graduate students, volunteers, and Portland State University students. Kathy Tucker was responsible for conducting the majority of interviews for the Camas project, and she assisted Katrine Barber in collecting interviews for the Cottage Grove and Sandpoint projects. Donna Sinclair was responsible for collecting the majority of interviews for the Umatilla project and for collecting and directing (with Katrine Barber) student interviewers in the Columbia Slough project. Individual interviewers are identified in this finding aid.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Half of the collection is represented by the interviews collected at the Oregon Historical Society for the Columbia Dissenters project. The remaining interviews are represented by the community history projects: Camas, Washington; Cottage Grove, Oregon; Columbia Slough, Oregon; Umatilla, Oregon; and Sandpoint, Idaho. Interviews were conducted on 60-minute analog audio tapes and are part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Sound Recording Collection. Some project materials, including printed portions of the associated web sites, are included in the collection.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
Transcripts and some audio clips are available on the Center for Columbia River History web site, Community History section
Restrictions on Use
For audio reproduction and information on publication rights, contact the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. OHS owns all rights to the interviews, unless otherwise noted through narrator restriction.
Copyright Statement: The Oregon Historical Society owns copyright to the interviews conducted in this project. Some restrictions may apply to individual interviews.
Preferred Citation
Center for Columbia River History Oral History Collection, 2700.1, Series Title, SR number, Tape number, Side number, Transcript page number, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
Series List:
A. Columbia River Dissenters Project. SR 2700-2703, 2706-2743, 2745-2749, 2780-2791.
B. Camas, Washington, Community History Project. SR 2773 - 2773.7.
C. Columbia Slough, Oregon, Community History Project. SR 2772 - 2772.23.
D. Cottage Grove, Oregon, Community History Project. SR 2351, 2353, 2354, 2358, 2360-2366.
E. Sandpoint, Idaho, Community History Project. SR 2352, 2355, 2356, 2359.
F. Umatilla, Oregon, Community History Project. SR 2771 - 2771.15.
Location of Collection
Service copies of audio-cassette tapes and transcripts are available in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library. Some transcripts, or partial transcripts, available on the Center for Columbia River History website. Location of originals: Held by the Oregon Historical Society.Custodial History
Interview tapes and transcripts from the community history project were donated to the Oregon Historical Society by the Center for Columbia River History. Copyright release for the Oregon Historical Society was obtained by individual interviewers. The Oregon Historical Society collected interviews for the Columbia River Dissenters project from individual narrators.
Acquisition Information
The Center for Columbia River History donated interview tapes from the individual community history projects in 2001, 2002, and 2003.
Future Additions
A Labor on the Columbia River project is in process and some interviews have been completed. An associated Northwest Power Planning Council Project, partially funded through this grant, is nearly completed.
Processing Note
When the Oregon Historical Society began conducting interviews for the Columbia River Dissenters project, the tapes were assigned series numbers beginning with 2700; however, some numbers are out of sequence. The numbering system has since changed so that the Camas, Columbia Slough, and Umatilla community history projects received numbers with decimal points, allowing the tapes from the project to be housed together.
Service copies for the Columbia River Dissenters project were made at the Oregon Historical Society. Some of the tapes received for the Columbia Communities projects had service copies with them. Some tapes were duplicated at the Oregon Historical Society. Transcription for the Dissenter's project was completed through paid transcribers and through volunteer assistance. Transcription for the community history projects was completed by individual interviewers or through volunteer Melissa Williams' assistance. Transcription was not completed for all of the interviews from Cottage Grove and Camas. However, partial transcripts are available for many of the interviews and all web pages using excerpts from interviews have been printed and filed with the collection.
Separated Materials
A National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the Center for Columbia River History funded interviews conducted in 1996 in Moses Lake, Washington. These interviews were used in the model community history Moses Lake web exhibit on the CCRH web site, and are housed at the Adam East Art Center and Museum in Moses Lake. Additional interviews collected for the Sandpoint, Idaho, Community History web exhibit are housed at the Idaho Historical Society and the Bonner County Historical Society.
An associated Northwest Power Planning Council Project, funded partially through this grant, is housed at the Oregon Historical Society. A Labor on the Columbia River project, funded partially by this grant, is in process.
Bibliography
For associated bibliographies see the Center for Columbia River History web site.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series A:: Columbia River Dissenters , 1998-2000Return to Top
59 Interviews (207 cassette tapes). 2700-2703, 2706-2743, 2745-2749, 2780-2791.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2700 | Ed Chaney interview by Clark
Hansen
10 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript,
178 pages.
Biography and Description: Ed Chaney resides in Eagle, Idaho. He
is president of Chinook Northwest, Inc., and founder and director of Northwest
Resource Information Center, Inc.
|
1998-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth and work experiences; Rolla,
Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; working for the B & O Railroad in East St.
Louis; Southwest Missouri State University; Indiana Department of Natural
Resources.
|
1998-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Work as an information specialist for the Oregon Fish
Commission; commercial and sport salmon fishery; Indian fishing; Columbia River
dams; John Day Dam; fish ladders and nitrogen supersaturation; salmon burial by
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Don Holme; Jim Galbraith; Tom McCall; Bob
Schoning; gag order; breach of confidentiality by the Oregonian; National Wildlife Federation (NWF);
Washington D.C.
|
1998-05 |
| 2701 | Pat Ford interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 47
pages.
Biography and Description: Pat Ford was born in Lincoln,
Nebraska in 1948 and moved to Idaho Falls, Idaho in 1951. She attended Columbia
College in New York City from 1965-1969. In 1977 she joined the Board of
Directors of the Idaho Conservation League (ICL) becoming executive director in
February 1979. Pat Ford left ICL from 1984-1987 and worked as a freelance
writer, mainly for High Country News, and as
editor from 1990-91. She returned to ICL from June-October 1987. She has also
served as interim executive director and Idaho field representative for the
Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition.
|
1998-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; conservation; Idaho Falls; Snake
River; Idaho Conservation League; Frank Church Wilderness (Central Idaho);
Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); Idaho Power Company; Utah Power
and Light; Ed Chaney; Northwest Power Act; Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA); Salmon restoration; Endangered Species Act; High
Country News; Save our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS); Ed Chaney.
|
1998-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Fish restoration; sustainable living; Lower Snake River Dams;
John Day Dam; Hanford Reach; downstream flows; funding and river users; Senator
Gorton, the Army Corps of Engineers, and John Day Dam; cost estimates; Boldt
Decision; Native American Treaty rights; Salmon oriented organizations; SOS;
hatcheries; subsidies; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers; litigation; political support.
|
1998-05 |
| 2702 | Wendy Wilson interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 46
pages.
Biography and Description: Wendy Wilson was born in 1956 in
Madison, Wisconsin. She replaced Pat Ford as Executive Director of the Idaho
Conservation League and later became involved with Idaho Rivers United, an
environmental group concerned with the protection of salmon and other
conservation issues related to river use.
|
1998-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; Boise, Idaho; Idaho Conservation League; salmon;
McClure Wilderness Bill; Idaho Salmon & Steelhead Unlimited (ISSU); Idaho
Wildlife Federation; Idaho mining; 1872 Mining Act and claims; Idaho Power
Company; Public Utility Regulatory Purposes Act; Friends of the Payette; J. R.
Simplot; dam proposal; Wayne & Gertrude Sutton; State Protected Rivers
Program; State Comprehensive Water Planning Act; Wild & Scenic Rivers Act;
Senator Larry Craig; Steve Symms; State's Rights & federal government;
environmental coalitions; sport fishing groups; Northwest Power Planning
Council; Northwest Power Act.
|
1998-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Ed Chaney; Reed Burkholder; lower Snake River dams; emergency
draw-down; Todd Maddock and Mike Field; National Marine Fishery Service; U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers; incidental take permits; Endangered Species Act; Judge
Marsh; litigation; John Day Dam; dam removal; hatcheries; fish barging;
financial responsibility; subsidies.
|
1998-05 |
| 2703 | Cort Conley interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 55
pages.
Biography and Description: Cort Conley was born in 1944 in
Oakland, California. He earned a bachelors degree and law degree from the
University of California Berkeley in 1972, then began working on Salmon River
with Wilderness Encounters. He has worked as a boatman and packer along the
Snake River, and has written a number of works about Idaho, including
Idaho for the Curious, a guide book and a history of
the Middle Fork of the Salmon River. He has been involved with the Idaho
Outfitters and Guides Association and has also worked as a river guide.
|
1998-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; University of California Berkeley; growing up in
Berkeley; Active Conservation Tactics (ACT); Wild Rivers Idaho; Middle Fork of
the Salmon River; Hells Canyon; writing books about Idaho and river history;
Snake River; hydropower development; Washington Public Power Supply System
(WPPSS); Bureau of Reclamation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Dworshak Dam;
Frank Church; River Outfitters; Hells Canyon management; U.S.D.A. Forest
Service; recreation boom; jet boats; environmental degradation; fishery in
Hells Canyon; erosion; management challenges in Hells Canyon; powerboats;
politics.
|
1998-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Salmon River; Frank Church; River of No Return Wilderness
Area; Middle Fork of the Salmon River; "Dirty" camps; jet boat intrusion; Idaho
Outfitters and Guides Association; powerboating permits; private land
development; scenic easements; Wild and Scenic Rivers Act; public lands -
development; special use permits; Norm Guth; back to Salmon River; camping
rules; toilet waste; water quality degradation; Forest Service politics and
mismanagement; Idaho Wilderness Act; boater and environmental interaction;
National Marine Fisheries Service; salmon; dam removal and drawdown;
clearcutting; watershed mismanagement; salmon restoration; pessimism.
|
1998-05 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Dam removal and drawdown; clearcutting; watershed
mismanagement; salmon restoration; pessimism regarding salmon's future;
barging; hatcheries; logging reductions; forest fires; controlled burns;
watershed restoration; Larry Craig; logging restrictions (needed);
road-building moratorium in National Forests; scenic easements.
|
1998-05 |
| 2706 | Michele DeHart interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 57
pages.
Biography and Description: Michele DeHart grew up in southern
California and moved to eastern Washington in 1968. She obtained a degree in
Fishery Biology from the University of Washington, and began working with the
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in 1973. At the time of this interview,
Michele DeHart was a fish biologist, advocate and activist, working as Fish
Passage Manager of the Fish Passage Center in Portland, Oregon.
|
1998-12 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; education and interest in fish
biology; working for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; U.S. v. Washington; Boldt Decision; Columbia River
Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and the Pacific Northwest Basin
Commission; National Marine Fisheries Service and mid-Columbia public utility
districts; Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS) and the Northwest
Power Act; Columbia River system, salmon, dams, and the Northwest Power
Planning Council (NWPPC).
|
1998-12 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Personal philosophy and worldview; salmon runs, hydropower and
economic development; Fish Passage Center, the Northwest Power Planning
Council, the Northwest Power Act, and the Pacific Northwest River Basin
Commission; Endangered Species Act and Snake River dams; public perception and
policy.
|
1998-12 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Lower Snake River dams; economics of salmon protection and
restoration; International salmon conflicts—United States and Canada; hatchery
fish and wild fish; irrigation on the lower Snake River; salmon biology and
habitat; Northwest Power Planning Council; personal challenges regarding work
on Columbia River issues.
|
1998-12 |
| 2707 | Frank Amato interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound Cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 47
pages.
Biography and Description: Frank Amato's ancestors (Italian and
German) came to the Pacific Northwest on the Oregon Trail around 1900. He was
born in Portland, Oregon in 1942 and attended Central Catholic High School and
the University of Portland. At the time of this interview, Frank Amato was the
founder and director of Amato Publications, Inc. publishers of the periodical
Salmon Trout Steelheaders.
|
1998-11 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Catholic education; University of Portland;
Vietnam War; The
Salmon Trout Steelheader; fishing; Kellogg Creek
(Milwaukie, Oregon); Fish Creek; catch and release; Federation of Fly Fishing;
Columbia River; Chile; Steelhead; hatchery propagation; differences between
salmon and steelhead; Deschutes River; hydro development of the Columbia River
and environmental change in the Columbia River Basin; grazing; commercial
fishing; hatcheries; spring Chinook; Coho salmon; Sockeye salmon; Pink salmon;
Chum salmon; Boldt Decision; Willapa Bay, Washington; establishing commercial
seasons; Snake River dams; Northwest Steelheaders; Inland Empire Fly Fishers;
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Hells Canyon Dam; Lower Granite Dam; sturgeon;
Columbia River estuary; shad; smelt.
|
1998-11 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Lower Deschutes River land sale; Doug Robertson; Lower
Deschutes River Club; Chuck Voss; Association of Northwest Steelheaders; Victor
Atiyeh; state acquisition; turning point (politically) for fish protection;
Indian fishing rights; Boldt Decision - disagreement over allocation; Northwest
Power Act; Northwest Power Planning Council; Bill Bakke; Endangered Species
Act; Willa Nelson; non-native species in the Columbia River system; riparian
management; stream rehabilitation; intermittent stream salmon spawning; Ed
Chaney; Conflicts between commercial and sport fishers; conflicts between sport
fishers and Indian fishers; dip net fishing; gill netting; dam removal;
hatcheries; subsidies; Steve Phelps; genetics; salmon restoration and
economics; optimism for the future.
|
1998-11 |
| 2708 | Chuck Williams interview by Clark
Hansen
7 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 203
pages.
Biography and Description: Chuck Williams, a writer and
photographer of Caucasian and Cascade Indian descent, owned a photography
gallery in The Dalles, Oregon at the time of this interview. He is author of
Bridge of the Gods: A Return to the Columbia Gorge,
published by Friends of the Earth in 1980. He has been an activist with Friends
of the Earth and during the 1980s he fought against National Scenic Area
designation for the Columbia River Gorge, and worked to have the Gorge
designated a National Park. Williams is enrolled with the Grande Ronde
Tribe.
|
1999-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Cascade Indians; Chief Tumove [sp?]; Indian
Mary (Kalliah); Grand Ronde Treaty; Yakama Reservation; Warm Springs
Reservation; Franz Lake; Wapato; Columbia River Gorge; Racism; Skamania,
Washington; Jim Walker; youth; being a "beatnik" in the San Francisco,
California Bay area; work as an engineer for NASA; work for Boeing; Seattle,
Washington; Peace Corps; work with Mexican youth in El Paso, Texas; studying
art and camping; David Brower; Friends of the Earth; National Parks.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Efforts to save the Columbia River Gorge; Klickitat County
Public Utility District; proposed dam building on the White Salmon River;
Friends of the Gorge; National Park Service; Land and Water Conservation Fund;
Cecil Andrus; The National Parks and Conservation Association; Wilderness
Society; Michael Frohman; Nancy Russell; USDA Forest Service; Jim Weaver;
Sierra Club; Mark Hatfield; Robert Packwood; Emily Barlow; Tom Imason; Columbia
Gorge Coalition; Golden Gate National Recreation Area; Don Clark; Thousand
Friends of Oregon; development in the Columbia Gorge; Robert Duncan; Ron Wyden;
clear-cut logging; National Park Service Bureau of Outdoor Recreation; Chuck
Cushman; making the Gorge a National Recreation versus Scenic Area; Columbia
Gorge Environmental Center.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Gail Ackerman; Borden Beck; 1984 Wilderness bills; "fake
environmentalists"; Dan Evans; subdivisions in the Gorge; Sid Morrison;
Northwest Power Planning Council; Trust for Public Lands; Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge; Kate McCarthy; Vera Defoe; Nanny Warren; John Yeon; Hood River
Valley; Dave Talbot; Victor Atiyeh; Pat Amedeo; Ed Divine; Columbia River
Intertribal Fish Commission; Jack Donaldson; racism; Tim Wapato; Wilbur
Johnson; exclusionary politics; tribal interests; Bonneville Power
Administration; US Army Corps of Engineers; Multnomah County Commissions.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Beverly Stein; Louie Pitt; S.D.S. Lumber Company; Clearcut
logging in the Columbia River Gorge; Absence of accountability in Gorge;
Special management areas; land acquisition (lack of); final legislation to
create the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area; The Packwood bill; The
Friends of the Gorge bill; LCDC inspired zoning in the Gorge; problems with the
"Friends" bill; deed restrictions; General management areas; Washington
Department of Natural Resources; Clearcut logging; Urban Exempted Areas;
Special Management Areas; tributary protection; Columbia River Gorge
Commission; Sierra Club; Dennis and Bonnie White; direct action; Jackson
Browne; Heathman Hotel; USDA Forest Service; Art DeFalt; Hood River Valley;
Patty McCray; Brian Baird; Camas, Washington; Jim Bloomquist; National Wildlife
Federation; Robert Packwood; facing the Reagan challenges.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Ron Arnold; killing the governor's bill; Duncan Creek
property, Skamania County, Washington; catch and release fishing; Bonneville
Dam; Mitchell Act; hatcheries; hydropower development in the Columbia Basin and
the role of Tribes; Boldt Decision; Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission;
appropriating salmon; embezzlement scandal at Friends of the Gorge; Yakama
Indian Nation; Yakama-Klickitat hatchery project; Department of Energy; Earth
Conservation Corps; Salmon Corps; Celilo Falls; Reopening the gallery;
The Oregonian; Exposing the Gorge's situation;
Portland.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 6 | Contents:
ESA listing of fish and fish runs; salmon fisheries, dam
removal - Bonneville Dam, The Dalles Dam, John Day Dam; Bea House; Kathy
Durbin, Cascadia Times; High
Country News; salmon cycles—ocean—migration; barging salmon; Salmon
Corps; Native American youth; AmeriCorps; Conforth Cattle Ranch; Deschutes
River restoration; Wild Horse Creek restoration; Nez Perce Reservation sturgeon
hatchery; Shoban (Shoshone Bannock) restoration; organizational change in
environmental organizations—grass roots - bureaucrats; Sierra Club; Thousand
Friends of Oregon; grass roots politics; David Brower; White Salmon River and
tributaries of Columbia River; American Rivers; Columbia Gorge Audubon Society;
opposition to wind power in the Gorge; White Salmon River; clearcutting by SDS
Lumber; protests.
|
1999-01 |
| Tape 7 | Contents:
Final thoughts on Gorge fight; saving Lyle Point; houses in
the Gorge; Steigerwald Lake National Wildlife refuge; Franz Lake NWR; Pierce
Ranch NWR; Wells Island Trust for Public Lands; Santa Monica Recreation Area;
Pauline Anderson; Multnomah County.
|
1999-01 |
| 2709 | Eugene Rosolie interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca.60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 105
pages.
Biography and Description: Eugene Rosolie was born in 1949 and
raised in the state of New York. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps during the
Vietnam War, served one tour stateside, and moved to Oregon in the early 1970s.
At the time of this interview, Eugene Rosolie was the Director of the Green
Power Program for Northwest Environmental Advocates. He worked with utilities
in stimulating development of renewable energy sources to replace coal and
nuclear power.
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; growing up in Brooklyn and Queens,
New York; gangs; Vietnam; U.S. Marine Corps; Parris Island; Camp Pendleton;
becoming a forward artillery observer; military service in Hawaii; living on
Long Island, New York; moving to Pacific Northwest.
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Mt. Angel College (Salem, Oregon) and Portland State
University (PSU); involvement in the environmental movement; PacifiCorp; Lloyd
Marbet; Coalition for Safe Power; Bob Cobb; Trojan Nuclear Power Plant;
opposition to nuclear power; radioactive contamination in the Columbia River;
Hanford, Washington - burying nuclear waste; nuclear weapons; Willapa Bay,
Washington—radioactive contamination; Willamette River; Washington Department
of Ecology; National Estuary Program; Port of Portland; Neil Goldschmidt;
Northwest Environmental Advocates; Washington Public Power Supply System
(WPPSS).
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Opposition to Trojan; Trojan Decommissioning Alliance; civil
disobedience (non-violent); being put on trial for criminal trespass;
subsequent civil disobedience and trials; Columbia County District Court; Three
Mile Island, Pennsylvania; Oregon's ban on nuclear power plant construction;
closing Trojan; Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); nuclear power -
safety; Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Portland General Electric (PGE); Hanford
nuclear reactor closure; Freedom of Information Act; efforts to close the
Centralia, Washington plant; shifting focus to pollution in the Columbia River;
River Watch; National Estuary Program; Port of Portland; Columbia River channel
deepening and toxic sediments.
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Opposition to the National Estuary Program on the Columbia
River; publishing "The Columbia River Troubled Waters" (map) through Northwest
Environmental Advocates; Columbia and Willamette River Watch Program; Columbia
River channel deepening; Port of Portland; alternative energy sources;
Northwest power grid; PacifiCorp; Bonneville Power Administration;
decentralizing and diversifying power supplies.
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Endangered Species Act listing for fish; decline of salmon and
other endangered fish; estuary degradation; Portland's combined sewer overflow
(CSO); dike removal along the Lower Columbia; estuary restoration; riverine
health and pollution; river politics; full-cost accounting and the effects of
globalization; assessing costs and values and assigning blame; regulations,
tariffs and taxes.
|
1999-02, 1999-03 |
| 2710 | Bill Evans interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 54
pages.
Biography and Description: Bill Evans, a member of the
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was born in 1921, a member of
the Moses Tribe of Indians from Moses Lake, Washington. At the time of this
interview, he operated Chief Evans, Inc. including Wapato Firewood and Evans
Orchard.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Moses tribe (from Moses Lake,
Washington); Colville Indian Reservation; apple orchards and Mexican labor;
Columbia Basin dams; Lake Chelan; Bureau of Indian Affairs; salmon; Indian
schooling; St. Mary's Mission School; working on Chief Joseph and Rocky Reach
Dams; Grand Coulee Dam; irrigation; salmon restoration.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Dams and salmon; well water farming; Clyde Ballard; land
appropriation; casino; environmentalists; Republicans; Indians; So Happys;
fishing lifestyle; thoughts on the future of the Columbia basin.
|
1999-04 |
| 2711 | Allen Isaacson interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 48
pages.
Biography and Description: Allen Isaacson was a supervisor
hydrologist for the USDA Forest Service in the Idaho Panhandle. He called
attention to the consequences of over-cutting on the watershed that ended his
Forest Service career (1966-86). Isaacson went on to consulting and teaching at
Spokane Community College.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; living in Mullan Idaho; working for
the USDA Forest Service; living around Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; work as
hydrologist and fish biologist for the Forest Service; the Zena Creek Blowout
on the South Fork of the Salmon River (landslide); clearcutting; opinions
regarding the Forest Service; slash-burning; monoculture planting; forestry
management; flooding; watershed degradation; funding and the Reagan
Administration; adjudication conflict; overcutting in Idaho's
Panhandle—mid-1980s; leaving the Forest Service.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Forest Watch; Inland Empire Public Lands Group; Barry
Rosenberg; Sarah Folger; pressure from environmental coalitions; Native
Americans and environmental management; leaving the Forest Service; sustained
yield; working with the regional office in Missoula, Montana; subsidized
logging; logging in British Columbia; certification for sustainable harvested
wood; teaching at Spokane Community College (Water Resource Department);
fishery issues; breaching the lower Snake River dams; fighting construction of
the Dworshak Dam; anti-American sentiment by Canadians related to Grand Coulee
Dam; environmental restoration; salmon restoration; genetic conservation.
|
1999-04 |
| 2712 | John Osborn interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 37
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Dr.
Osborn was a staff physician with the Veterans Medical Center in Spokane,
Washington, and conservation chair for the Sierra Club's Northern Rockies
chapter. Osborn has worked as a firefighter and in recreation for the USDA
Forest Service. He also founded the Spokane Resident Physicians Action League
(now The Lands Council) and served on the boards of the Idaho Conservation
League and the Idaho Wildlife Federation. Osborn is the author, with Derrick
Jensen & George Draffan, of a history of the 1864 Northern Pacific railroad
land grant:
Railroads & Clearcuts (1995).
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; ski-racing; Boise, Idaho; USDA Forest Service fire
fighter; medical school; Northern Pacific Railroad land grant; clearcutting;
Weyerhaeuser; Plum Creek; Maine's north woods.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Medical ethics; geriatrics; HIV & AIDS; veterans; solving
environmental problems with a medical model; Regional Ethics Network of Eastern
Washington and North Idaho; Spokane River; Environmental History Tour.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Toxic metals in the upper Columbia River system; mining; Coeur
d'Alene and Spokane Rivers; lead; Cataldo Mission; Bunker Hill lead complex;
Gulf resources; Senator McClure; Franklin Fong; Lands Council.
|
1999-04 |
| 2713 | Nina Bell interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes):analog. Transcript, 67
pages.
Biography and Description: Nina Bell was raised in Seattle and
went to Portland to attend Reed College, later attending Lewis & Clark Law
School. At the time of this interview, she was executive director of Northwest
Environmental Advocates, a position held since 1988. By implementing Clean
Water Act programs and spearheading litigation through NWEA, she has
represented environmental interests in regional and national negotiations.
|
1999-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background and youth; energy policy activism and the
Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); Columbia River degradation;
Clean Water Act and Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs).
|
1999-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Clean Water Act and TMDLs; Columbia Estuary and the National
Estuary Program; upstream-downstream relationships; lower Willamette Superfund
site; Multnomah Channel; combined sewer overflows in Portland, Oregon.
|
1999-06 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Combined sewer overflows; Clean Water Act and TMDLs;
Anti-degradation policy.
|
1999-06 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
National Estuary Program and TMDLs; environmental toxins;
organizational relationships with "friends", "foes" and members/financial
backers.
|
1999-06 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Education and curriculum ideas; final thoughts regarding the
future.
|
1999-06 |
| 2714 | Kent Martin interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 66
pages.
Biography and Description: Kent Martin, a gill-net fisherman
from Skamokawa, Washington, was born in 1944 and began fishing when he was 14
years old. Martin attended Central Washington State College in Ellensburg,
Washington, and double-majored in philosophy and anthropology. Martin continued
his education at Memorial University of Newfoundland and obtained his Masters
degree in Marine Anthropology. Martin's wife, Irene, is author of the book
Legacy and Testament: The Story of Columbia River
Gillnetters, which includes a history of Kent Martin's family.
|
1999-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background and Skamokawa, Washington; youth and
Columbia River fishing; Point Adams Packing Company; Lower Columbia River
College; Central Washington State University and marine anthropology; fish
barging; Salmon Oversight Committee; Salmon Summit; Shadow Summit; William
"Bill" Bakke; Rufus Woods and Grand Coulee Dam; Columbia River history—salmon
canning—gill netting; fishing—conflicts—technology—equipment (seines, fish
traps, fish wheels); salmon decline; habitat degradation; over-fishing; Alaska;
recreation; poverty; fishers' organizations; initiative petitions.
|
1999-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Alaska fishing; over-fishing; irrigation; justice; demonizing
commercial fishing; coastal economies versus the I-5 corridor; service jobs
versus living wage jobs; loss of salmon runs on the Columbia; Fishermen's
Union.
|
1999-05 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Salmon restoration and rural-urban conflict; fisheries
conflict; views toward Native American fishers; sportfishers; logging; Canada;
politics; Frank Amato; Bill Bakke; slack water (reservoirs); dam turbines;
Bonneville Power Administration; fish farms; international trade liberalization
and treaties.
|
1999-05 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Reflection on contemporary salmon fishing issues and thoughts
on the future.
|
1999-05 |
| 2715 | Wade and Tex Troutman interview
by Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca.60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 64
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, the
Troutmans were orchardists and farmers in the Columbia Basin of Washington
State.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background (Troutman); youth; Bridgeport, Washington;
Colville Indian Reservation tribes; Badger Mountain root gathering;
homesteading; the Great Depression; Chief Joseph Dam; Grand Coulee Dam; World
War II; serving in Germany; farming in Bridgeport, Washington; Janice's family
background; Pateros, Washington; youth; changes in Bridgeport after World War
II; Wade's early years—dam construction in Bridgeport; support for Chief Joseph
Dam; irrigation; Washington State Department of Ecology; moratorium on pumping
water from the mainstem Columbia River; planting the family orchard; power from
the Chelan Dam.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Trends toward larger farms (corporate farms); politics of
water use; competition with corporate farms; economies of scale (agriculture);
Latino migrant labor; Colville Tribes; Bureau of Indian Affairs; problems with
co-ops; the disappearing family farm; earning money through environmental
stewardship.
|
1999-04 |
| 2716 | Charles Ray interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):Transcript, 104
pages.
Biography and Description: Charles Ray first came to Idaho
in1976 to work for the USDA Forest Service. He spearheaded the Wild Salmon
Project for Idaho Rivers United, a nonprofit organization that stimulates
grassroots attention on state and federal water policy issues.
|
1999-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Johnson City, Tennessee; University
of Tennessee, Institute of Agriculture; forestry; Vietnam era; Tellico Dam;
Tennessee Valley Authority; snail darter; Endangered Species Act; Howard Baker;
Bob Marshall Wilderness Area, Idaho; Garden Valley, Idaho; USDA Forest Service;
Boise Cascade; helicopter logging; working as an industrial electrician;
Portland, Oregon; work at the Swan Island Shipyard; work at Honeywell
Industrial Controls; McCall, Idaho; Wendy Wilson; Friends of the Payette
(River); steelhead; wild salmon; Bear Valley Creek; Idaho Rivers United;
advocating against gold mining on the Clearwater River; Sockeye salmon; salmon
habits; closing Idaho's salmon fishery; Idaho Plan (seasonal drawdowns); Ed
Chaney; Columbia River system—nutrient regeneration from salmon; lower Snake
River dams; upper Snake River dams; John Day Dam.
|
1999-07 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Barge traffic on the Snake River and Columbia River; politics
of the salmon crisis; conservatism and intolerance in Idaho; Idaho Steelhead
and Salmon Unlimited; Trout Unlimited; Save our Wild Salmon Coalition; lower
Snake River Dams; Reed Buckholder; evolution of IRU support toward dam removal;
Tax Payers for Common Sense; Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); National
Marine Fisheries Service; USDA Forest Service; Downstream Migration Management
Planning; Three Sovereigns; the role of the judiciary; Indian treaties and
saving salmon; Boldt Decision; Nez Perce reintroduction of Coho to Clearwater
River; Missoula Floods; Bonneville Floods; resiliency of salmon; hatcheries;
genetic "contamination" from hatchery fish.
|
1999-07 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); Three Sovereigns;
National Marine Fisheries Service; Roland Smitten; barging salmon; Idaho Water
Users Association; subsidies; water rights; farming; navigation and dam
removal; politics surrounding dam removal (in Idaho); US Army Corps of
Engineers; Endangered Species Act; fish mortalities; 1995 Jeopardy ruling (by
NMFS) and mitigation; incidental take permits; conflicting federal commitments
and jurisdictions; IRU; dam decommissioning; dam removal—costs and economic
compensation; Idaho Power; Bonneville Power Administration; aluminum
companies.
|
1999-07 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); biological opinions;
Idaho Department of Fish and Game versus NMFS; Phil Batt; Malcolm Marsh;
Shoshone Bannock; treaties with Nez Perce, Warm Springs, Yakama, Umatilla, and
Shoshone Bannock; Clean Water Act; Endangered Species Act; Lower Snake River
Compensation Plan; Northwest Power Act; Pacific Salmon Treaty; 1994 elections
in Idaho; Dirk Kempthorne; "Path" studies; Independent Science Advisory Board;
hydropower and green power; increased water temperatures; fishing harvests;
fish transportation; controlled spills for downstream migration; optimism for
salmon's future.
|
1999-07 |
| 2717 | Walter Butcher interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 89
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Walter
Butcher was Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at Washington State
University. He specialized in economics of natural resources and the
environment and in agricultural development. He has served as a consultant and
advisor to several agencies and organizations, including the United States
General Accounting Office, the Bonneville Power Administration, the state of
Washington, the U. S. Water Resource Council and the U. S. Deptartment of
Agriculture.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; southwestern Idaho; farming (irrigation); Snake River;
the Great Depression and World War II years; University of Idaho; education; US
Department of Agriculture; Washington State University; agricultural price
supports and production controls; wheat farming economics in Idaho and
Washington; farm management and production economics; Columbia Basin Irrigation
Project; irrigation and water allocation; Bureau of Reclamation; dams; large
scale irrigation; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Yakima Basin; Norm
Whittlesey.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Assessment of the first half of the Columbia Basin Project
(CBIP); Economic Research Service; criticism of the CBIP; failure to provide
irrigation and electrification to Tribes (especially Colville); Water rights;
General Accounting Office (GAO); including the full opportunity costs of water
used for irrigation; Washington Department of Ecology.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Irrigation; conservation (water); subsidies; enforcing
conservation measures; water marketing; conflicts over federal treaties (with
Indian Tribes) and contracts (with irrigators); comparison of dry-land wheat
farming and irrigated wheat farming; energy forecasting; Pacific Northwest
Regional Commission; Bonneville Power Administration; Private Utilities; Public
Utility Districts (PUDs); Direct Service Industries (DSIs); Northwest Power
Act; nuclear power; Hydrothermal Planning Council; energy crisis (1970s).
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Northwest Energy Policy Project; Mike Katz; Dixie Lee Ray;
General Accounting Office; George Hinneman; electricity rates; Washington
Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); Seattle Power and Light; bond defaults.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Optimism toward future.
|
1999-10 |
| 2718 | Lorraine Bodi interview by Clark
Hansen
7 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 114
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Lorraine Bodi was a natural resource attorney and senior fish and wildlife
advisor for the Bonneville Power Administration. Previously, she was
co-director of the American Rivers office in Seattle, Washington and former
counsel to the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency.
|
1999-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; George Washington Law School; U. S. Environmental
Protection Agency; Clean Water Act; Washington, D.C.; moving to Seattle,
Washington; Endangered Species Act; Northwest Power Act; Fish and Wildlife
Coordination Act; National Marine Fisheries Service; dam re-licensing; Federal
Power Act; Department of Commerce; National Environmental Policy Act; High
Mountain Sheep Dam; Anadromous Fish Conservation Act; Boldt Decision; U. S.
Fish and Wildlife Service; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Dam
re-licensing; Rock Island Dam; Fish passage; Indian Tribes; Environmental
Impact Statement; Chelan Public Utility District; Mid-Columbia Proceedings
(before FERC); Hanford; juvenile fish mortality; Hanford Reach; in-stream
flows; Terry Thatcher; work for NMFS; negotiating settlements; role of courts;
judges; Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); Washington Public Power
Supply System (WPPSS); U. S. Army Corps of Engineers; equitable treatment for
salmon; institutional resistance to change.
|
1999-08 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
National Marine Fisheries Service; American Rivers; Judy
Johansen; Bonneville Power Administration; Endangered Species Act; Bruce
Lovelin; Save our Wild Salmon Coalition.
|
1999-08 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
National Marine Fisheries Servide; salmon recovery goals;
improving fish passage (at Daws); Snake River seasonal dam drawdown (Andrus
Plan); increasing instream flows; Independent Science Advisory Board; science
and politics; 4 Hs (hydropower, hatcheries, harvest and habitat); USDA Forest
Service; riparian zone protection; setting performance standards; Endangered
Species Act; Clean Water Act; National Anadromous Fish Conservation Areas;
evolution of views regarding hatcheries; Jim Lichatowich; Hanford Reach;
mitigation for downstream migration; surface by-pass; Wells Dam; fish
transportation; delayed fish mortality; straying salmon; prioritizing spending;
private dams; Idaho Power; Bureau of Reclamation; water marketing; irrigation;
All H paper; alternatives to dam breaching on the lower Snake; US Army Corps of
Engineers EIS for Snake River.
|
1999-08 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Dam removal; habitat improvements; political resistance to dam
removal; compensation and past governmental commitments; conflicting
commitments; privatizing the Bonneville Power Administration.
|
1999-08 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Re-licensing of the North Umpqua Hydroelectric Project;
Low-Impact Hydropower Institute; American Rivers; For the Sake of the Salmon;
Northwest Renewal Resources Center; Sustainable Fisheries Foundation; National
Marine Fisheries Service; becoming an advisor for the BPA; Judy Johansen; Jack
Robertson; All H Paper; decision-making and implementation; the "federal
caucus"; public input; deadlines; thoughts on changing jobs; dam breaching;
funding habitat restoration; Columbia River Alliance; selective fishing; Boldt
Decision (U.S. v. Oregon).
|
1999-08 |
| Tape 6 | Contents:
BPA's scientific interpretations; salmon mortality; harvest
levels; drawdowns; National Marine Fisheries Service; dam removal on the lower
Snake River; lack of political leadership in region; Northwest Power Planning
Council; private power companies; Skagit River; the future of salmon in the
Columbia River basin.
|
1999-08 |
| 2719 | Reed Burkholder interview by
Clark Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 114
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of the interview, Reed
Burkholder lived in Boise, Idaho and was a practicing Mennonite, piano teacher
and an advocate for salmon and dam removal on the lower Snake River.
|
1999-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Snake River—hunting—fishing;
education; Salmon River; fish traps; University of Idaho; salmon hatcheries;
Rapid River; Little Salmon River; Chinook salmon; bible study; Hyde Park
Mennonite Church; dams and declining salmon runs; stewardship and treatment of
the environment in the Christian bible; electricity; Snake River dams.
|
1999-07 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Cancer wife's death; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA)Port
of Lewiston, Idaho; subsidies; Army Corps of Engineers; Inland Waterways Trust
Fund; irrigation and lower Snake River; dams and salmon; Bureau of Reclamation
(BOR); farmers and crops; flood control (and lack of); fish ladders; reservoirs
as thermal blocks.
|
1999-07 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Mennonite church; Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC);
Idaho Rivers United; Pat Ford; Charles Ray; Mitchell Sanchotena; Sierra Club
Salmon Work Group; Wendy Wilson; spillway crest draw; silt, toxic sediments and
dredging; Potlatch toxic release; dioxins; dam breaching and Columbia River
Pollution; support for dam breaching on the lower Snake River; Army Corps of
Engineers; Jonathan Brinkman; The Oregonian;
natural river draw down; Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC);
Mike Field; environmental organizations.
|
1999-07 |
| Tapes 4 & 5 | Contents:
Dam breaching; Oregon Statesman
Journal; environmental groups; Justin Hayes; grass roots democracy; Save
Our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS); hydropower markets; aluminum companies;
farmers; Inland Empires Waterway Association; subsidies; Lewiston, Idaho; Snake
River dams—economics of dam breaching.
|
1999-07 |
| 2720 | J.W. "Bud" Forrester interview by
Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 50
pages.
Biography and Description: Bud Forrester was born April 3, 1914
in Portland Oregon. He graduated from Marshfield High School in Coos Bay,
Oregon and attended Oregon State University. He was the owner of the
North Bend News from 1945 to1950; editor of the
East Oregonian from 1951 to 1973 and the
Daily Astorian from 1973 to 1988.
|
1999-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Eagle Creek; Copper; Chitina,
Alaska; Copper River; Mosier Tunnel, Oregon; Cascade Locks, Oregon; Part
Angeles, Washington; Coos Bay Lumber Company; journalist—The Oregonian—The East Oregonian; Rufus Woods; Grand
Coulee Dam; development of the Columbia River; fishing; fish wheels; Celilo;
Seufert Company; Cascade Locks; slack water navigation; Lewiston, Idaho; dam
construction; fish passage; Hells Canyon; Idaho Power Company; Dick Neuberger;
Al Ullman; Justice William O. Douglas; potatoes; Simplot; floods; Columbia
River and agriculture.
|
1999-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Irrigation; Pendleton, Oregon; closing of Bumble Bee Plant in
Astoria, Oregon; Daily Astorian; declining
fisheries; Burlington Northern Railroad; coal export plan; Tongue Point; Port
of Portland; Columbia River dredging; Chinook, Washington; Young's Bay, Oregon;
river bar pilots; aluminum plants & Columbia River Estuaries; fluoride;
Hanford; Trojan; Community fears of fallout; Umatilla Ordnance depot;
Pendleton, Oregon; AMAX Aluminum Plan in Warrenton, Oregon; Northwest Power
Planning Council; salmon; Lower Snake River Dams; Non-point source
pollution.
|
1999-06 |
| 2721 | Gilbert and Helen Giles interview
by Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 34
pages.
Biography and Description: Gilbert Giles was born in Bickleton,
Washington in 1910. In the 1930s, Giles was a school teacher near the town of
Okanogan, Washington and was principal at Lyle High School (1945-52). He has
lived in proximity of the Colville Indians throughout his life.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Native American/ Indian influences;
Celilo Falls; Indian relationships; salmon health in the Columbia River;
Colville-area Indians and the Grand Coulee dam; dam-building on the Columbia
River.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Education and the need for change; Johnny Jackson and Lyle
Point; political philosophy; teaching critical thinking.
|
1999-10 |
| 2722 | Walter and Marilyn Ericksen
interview by Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 89
pages.
Biography and Description: Walter Ericksen was born in 1918 in
Wasco County. He was an orchardist and a leader of the Wasco County Fruit and
Produce League. Ericksen helped chart pollution and smoke from the Harvey
Aluminum Company through aerial photography over a 21-year period.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family backgrounds; youth; The Dalles, Oregon; farming;
produce; irrigation; Native American - Celilo Falls; Fifteenth Air Force; World
War II; Foggia, Italy; Wasco County Agricultural Stabilization Conservation
Service (the "County Committee"); federal farm programs; farm payments; truck
gardening cherries; orchards; Harvey Aluminum; crop failures; dams, fish,
spotted owls and clearcuts; Hanford, WA; the Green run; coyote hunting.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Harvey Aluminum Plant; monitoring emissions; Arden Shenker;
Judge Kilkenny; smokestack photographs; fluoride; community reaction to
litigation; fish mortality; Harvey becomes Martin Marietta Aluminum Co.;
settlement; orchards.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Fluoride; community reaction to litigation; fish mortality;
Harvey becomes Martin Marietta Aluminum Co.; settlement; orchards; irrigation;
aluminum companies and subsidies; groundwater pollution; The Dalles water
supply; Superfund; Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Environmental
Quality.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Groundwater pollution; The Dalles water supply; Superfund;
Environmental Protection Agency; Department of Environmental Quality; Columbia
River pollution; The Dalles development.
|
1999-10 |
| 2723 | Floyd Harvey interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 45
pages.
Biography and Description: Floyd Harvey was born in 1925 and
grew up in Lewiston, Idaho. After serving in World War II, Harvey returned to
the Pacific Northwest and studied Business Administration and Foreign Trade at
Washington State College in Pullman, Washington. In 1958, Harvey started a
river tourism business near the Hells Canyon area. In 1964, he lobbied against
private utilities and public power agencies over the proposed construction of
the High Mountain Sheep Dam near the confluence of the Snake and Salmon
Rivers.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Lewiston, Idaho; Hells Canyon; Native
Americans; fishing; dams; World War II; Hells Canyon and tourism; Snake River
dams; High Mountain Sheep Dam; Hells Canyon National Recreation Area; Hells
Canyon Dam.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
High Mountain Sheep Dam; Hells Canyon National Recreation
Area; environmental organizations; Idaho Power; Idaho politics; Hells Canyon
Moratorium Bill; Senate Interior Committee; Senator Robert Packwood; Potlatch
pollution; resistance to Hells Canyon Dam; business—arson—loss of.
|
1999-10 |
| 2724 | Thomas Kovalicky interview by
Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 106
pages.
Biography and Description: Thomas Kovalicky, a U.S. Army
veteran, graduated from the University of Montana in 1961 with a Bachelor of
Science in Forestry. In 1962 he began a career with the USDA Forest Service.
Kovalicky retired in 1991 after having served nine years as Forest Supervisor
for the Nez Perce National Forest in Grangeville, Idaho. He served on the Idaho
Outfitters and Guides Licensing Board, was a national officer in the Society of
American Foresters, a board member for the Idaho Fish and Wildlife Foundation,
and director of the National Smokejumpers Association and has been Director of
Idaho Rivers United. Kovalicky has written and published 30 articles concerning
resource management and employee motivation.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; World War II; polio; University of Montana - Forestry
Program; Rachel Carson -
Silent Spring; Green River Valley, Wyoming; DDT;
Litigation against the USDA Forest Service; Forest Service leadership;
corporate pressure; subsidies; logging; sustained yield; National Forest
Management Act; yield forecasting; Wilderness Act; wilderness; recreation; Rock
Springs, Wyoming; Bridger Wilderness; Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area;
grazing; Sierra Club; mining; Sawtooth National Recreation Area; Stanley,
Idaho; comparison of the United States Department of the Interior and the
Department of Agriculture; comparison of USDI National Park Service and USDA
Forest Service.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Comparison continued; relationships with co-workers in the
Forest Service; Inter-Agency budget conflicts; Endangered Species Act; Senior
Executive Service; Max Peterson; Dale Robertson; Reaganism—Reagan
Administration; James Watt; Public Land Grants and large corporate in-holdings;
subsidies; destructive land management; Nez Perce National Forest; water
quality; roads; balancing extractive industry with recreation; conflicts with
the Regional Forester.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Balancing extractive industry with recreation; conflicts with
the Regional Forester; Clinton Administration—road building moratorium;
Environmental Impact Statements; working with Native Americans; ranger district
closings and consolidation; computers; losing local control in Forest Service
districts; centralizing power of computer networks; relationships with other
Forest Service employees for environmental ethics; silviculture; John Muma;
Jack Ward Thomas; Ecosystem management plans.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Retirement; Idaho Outfitters and Guide Licensing Board; Idaho
Fish and Wildlife Foundation Board; Arthur Carhart Institute; riparian zone
management; environmental groups; public relations; Mike Dombeck; rural
communities (changes in); Cove and Mallard timber sales; Sunbird
Conference.
|
1999-10 |
| 2725 | Dan Rohlf interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 113
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Dan
Rohlf was Instructor of Law and Director of the Pacific Environmental Advocacy
Center at Northwestern School of Law at Lewis and Clark College. He received a
Bachelor of Arts in Geology from Colorado College and a Juris Doctorate from
Stanford University.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Stanford Law School;
The Anadromous Fish Law Memo; Mike Blumm; Lewis
& Clark Law School; Endangered Species Act; Columbia River Basin; Bill
Bakke; National Marine Fisheries Service; American Fisheries Service; Columbia
River Fish ESA listings; Indian Treaties; salmon; fishing.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Economic changes along the lower Columbia River; U. S. Army
Corps of Engineers; Snake River dams; misinformation regarding dam removal;
Northwest Power Act; water budget; fish passage center; Ed Chaney;
Columbia-Snake Rivers Main Stem Flow Coalition; Salmon Summit; Mark Hatfield;
Section 4(d) of the ESA; Oregon Plan; Snake River drawdown plans; Idaho Power
company.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Ed Chaney; Wise Use group meeting in Salmon, Idaho; Bonneville
Power Administration; electricity and salmon; nuclear power; Washington Public
Power Supply system; salmon expenditure claims; foregone revenue and actual
expenditures; Indian Treaty Rights litigation; Slade Gorton; 9th District Court
of Appeals; ESA; NMFS; barging litigation; Cecil Andrus; Judge Marsh; salmon
recovery.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Judicial activism; Judge Marsh - NMFS 1993 biological opinion
regarding Columbia-Snake River salmon; recovery levels and survival levels for
species; Biological Requirements Group; standards in the 1995 biological
opinion; NMFS; Colville Tribe; Grand Coulee Reservoir; incidental taking; dam
removal on the lower Snake River; Ed Chaney; Reed Burkholder; Save our Wild
Salmon Coalition.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Barging salmon; Judge Marsh; Boldt decision - rationale;
tribal treaty rights and the ESA; salmon restoration and the ESA; Northwest
Power Act; litigation under the NWPA; Non-Treaty storage agreement; Ed Chaney;
BPA; Northwest Power Planning Council; the future of salmon management; Direct
Service Industries; federal subsidies; Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center;
Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Process.
|
1999-08, 1999-09 |
| 2726 | Russell Jim interview by Michael
O'Rourke
6 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 134
pages.
Biography and Description: Russell Jim, a member of the Yakama
Indian Nation, Washington, grew up in Toppenish, Washington, and attended the
Chemawa Indian Boarding School. He and his family have been involved in Native
American issues on the Columbia River and he has opposed use of the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; Toppenish, Washington; Yakama Indian Reservation;
boarding school in Chemawa, Oregon; public school in Toppenish; racism; Celix
Jim; Dry Creek; fishing; grazing damage to streams and lands; horses; Russell
Jim's father; Carlisle University; World War I; Russell Jim's mother; White
Swan celebration grounds; chasing horses; Ed Kelly; playing cards; hops
harvesting; father's lessons for card dealing; gathering trips in alpine
country; camps; childhood.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Gathering trips in alpine country; camps; childhood injury;
Klickitat River; huckleberries; potatoes; the Toppenish Powwow; the boycott of
Toppenish (starting in 1957); the All-Indian rodeo of White Swan; persistent
racism; 1946 Enrollment Law.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
early years at Dry Creek; horse chasing near Elbow; chasing
horses at Seattle Springs; horse chasing injury; depletion of wild horses;
cattle grazing; Bureau of Indian Affairs; Ed Quigley; school in Toppenish; work
on farms and railroads; fishing at Celilo; selling soda and playing dice (at
Celilo).
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Celilo; Salmon Head Beach; Hanford, Washington; John Till;
Hanford Environmental Dose Reconstruction Project; Brian Baird; contamination;
public deception; early years; dating; dancing; tuberculosis; depletion of
horses on Yakama lands; cattle grazing—environmental and cultural effects;
working for the Soil and Moisture Conservation Office (SMCO); fighting forest
fires; BIA; pesticides; serving on the tribal council; BIA code of ethics;
fight to keep seat on the Council; tribal sovereignty; meeting his wife.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Kiutus Jim Senior; signatory to the loss of Celilo; Enrollment
Act of 1946; Robert Jim; Termination resistance; American Indian Bank; Alaska
Native Claims Settlement Act; Yakama Loan to Alaskan natives; James Hovis;
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934; returning 21,000 acres (Mt. Adams) to Yakama
tribe; Roger C.B. Morton; resistance by the Sierra Club Western Outdoors Club;
erroneous boundary claims; St. Regis; Plum Creek; clear-cut logging; BIA forest
management—surveying and logging; Yakama elections for tribal council.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| Tape 6 | Contents:
Celilo Falls; traveling; changing relationships between
Indians and non-Indians; Otis Shiloh; Chief Island; Matthew Shiloh; Yakama
River; dip-net fishing at Celilo Falls; familiar claims to fishing spots;
Yakama—connections to the Columbia River and surrounding region; seasonal
migrations; intentional burning; Chief Tommy Thompson; Celilo fishery
conservation; capitalism.
|
1999-10, 2001-10 |
| 2727 | Norman Whittlesey interview by
Clark Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 46
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Norman
Whittlesey was a retired professor, Washington State University, Department of
Agricultural Economics. From Colorado State University, he received a Bachelor
of Science in 1955, and a Master of Science in Vocational Agriculture, 1960. He
received a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Iowa State University in
1964.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; Washington State University; agricultural economics;
Columbia Basin Project; The Grand Coulee Dam; irrigation; Bureau of
Reclamation; project funding; Columbia Basin Project and conflicts regarding
economic feasibility.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Testifying in front of the Washington Energy and Budget
committee; Helen Summers; backlash from agricultural interests; university
pressure; Tub Hansen; speaking out against "bad" water policy; water use from
the Grand Coulee; irrigation; water flows and salmon; subsidized agriculture;
losing taxpayer money through water diversion and small-scale power production;
water spreading.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
General observations regarding economic issues related to
Columbia River management.
|
1999-10 |
| 2728 | Kenneth Billington interview by
Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 72
pages.
Biography and Description: Kenneth Billington was born into a
logging family in Sheridan, Oregon. Billington became involved with WPA
administration, and then ship building. He remained involved in the issues of
public versus private dams on the Columbia River, and was a proponent of public
power.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background and youth; professional life and the Works
Progress Administration; Kaiser; Clark County Public Utility District;
investor-owned utilities and hydropower from the Columbia River System;
Washington Water Power Company and Grand Coulee dam; Senator Clarence Dill;
Public Utility Districts; Public Works Administration; Clark County PUD.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Grand Coulee Dam; PUDs; rural electric cooperatives; aluminum
companies; Columbia River Basin irrigation; Clark County PUD; dam-building on
the mid Columbia River; dam-building on the Snake River.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Nuclear power and Hanford; Washington Public Power Supply
System (WPPSS); hydro-thermal power; coal power; Pacific Power; power
forecasts; Northwest Power Act (creation and passage of); Columbia River
Indians and salmon; Northwest Power Planning Council.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Northwest Power Act and Northwest Power Planning Council.
|
2000-01 |
| 2729 | Richard Daugherty interview by
Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 42
pages.
Biography and Description: Richard Daugherty's career at WSU
spanned 31 years. Before retirement in 1982, he had served as chair of the
Department of Anthropology, pioneered new archaeological methods, and served on
the boards of nearly every regional, state and national archaeological and
historic preservation council.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; University of Washington;
anthropology; World War II Naval Air Corps; Pacific Northwest archeology;
chronological discussion of important archeological finds for the PNW; salvage
archeology related to dam construction (Linn Coulee, Marmes Rock Shelter); U.
S. Army Corps of Engineers; National Park Service.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Marmes Rock Shelter inundation; government relations with
archeologists in the Columbia Basin; Makah Indians; Indians and Indian culture;
environmental changes to the Columbia Basin.
|
2000-01 |
| 2730 | Phillip Jensen interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 91
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Phillip Jensen was the president of Luhr Jensen, Quality Fishing Lures and
Accessories in Hood River, Oregon.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Dee, Hood River Valley, Oregon; fishing;
Green Point Dam at Parkertown; logging; youth; World War II; anti-Japanese
sentiment; family background; education; Harvey Aluminum Plant; Hood River
development; Warm Springs Casino; moving to Waldport, Oregon; joining the US
Navy; studying economics at University of Oregon; the family fishing lure
business; salmon in the Great Lakes; Atlantic salmon.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Influence of Native Americans on non-Indians at Hood River;
the salmon crisis; Greg Walden; Oregon Department of Environmental Quality;
pesticides in Hood River Basin; distinctions between species of salmon and
steelhead; Grand Coulee Dam; US Army Corps of Engineers; development of salmon
crisis; saving salmon; Slade Gorton; Gordon Smith; commercial fishing on the
Columbia River; Endangered Species Act; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service;
hatcheries; Mitchell Act; The Dalles Dam; Celilo Falls; Boldt Decision; Indian
treaty-rights to fish; Bud Ramsey; Northwest Sport Fishing Industry
Association; personal awareness of salmon crisis; Pacific Rivers; Oregon Trout;
Bill Bakke.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Dam removal—lower Snake River—dangers; hatchery fish;
downstream migration; Bonneville Power Administration; Lower Snake River
irrigators; John Day draw down; genetic sanctuaries; US Army Corps of
Engineers; Bonneville Power Administration; salmon studies; National Marine
Fisheries Service; Will Still; Greg Walden; Gordon Smith; future energy needs;
aluminum plants; jobs; costs of salmon restoration; subsidies; evolution of
land management; watershed councils; Neal Creer; Columbia Gorge National Scenic
Area; Bea House; LCDC.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Interruptible power; globalization; reducing consumption;
sport utility vehicles (SUVs); taxes; fish genetics; fish sanctuaries;
anadromous preserves; tribes and salmon - responsibilities; future of salmon;
his children and grandchildren.
|
2000-01 |
| 2731 | Ted Strong interview by Clark
Hansen
6 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each):analog. Transcript, 88
pages.
Biography and Description: Ted Strong, a member of the Yakama
Indian Nation, was born May 7, 1947. Strong was comptroller for the Yakama
Indian Nation and president of the Native American finance Officers
Association. He also worked for the Warm Springs Indian Tribe, and managed his
own international trade and consulting company. He has served as Executive
Director of the Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and in
1993, was appointed by President Clinton to the President's Council on
Sustainable Development, where he served as the co-chair of the Natural
Resources Task Force.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth—Satus, Washington; parent's allotment; Treaty of 1855;
Dawes Act; historical conditions of Yakama Tribe; family life;
traditionalism—parents; Roosevelt Elementary School - adjustments to white
culture; non-Indian friends at school; Indian Shaker Church—parents were
members; comfort level with various religious orientations.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Education—high school; Kennedy assassination—interest in
politics; Bureau of Indian Affairs and education; business school in Dallas;
marriage to Navajo woman, Alta; work for Navajo Tribe; Atomic Energy
Commission, Richland, Washington; BIA, Montana; recruitment by Yakama Tribal
Council; high school/college experiences in Washington and Montana; tribal
government structure; Strong's position with tribe.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Tribal government structure; finance director for Yakama;
tribal natural resource management; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)—management
of tribes' timber resources; disputes/lawsuits against BIA; leaving job with
Yakama; work for the Warm Springs as financial consultant; Warm Springs
economic endeavors—Kah Nee Ta—apparel—radio—insurance; work as Columbia River
Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) executive director.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Strong's approach to directing CRITFC; David Sohappy; Yakamas'
view of CRITFC; CRITFC re-organization; Endangered Species Act; Clean Water
Act; relationship between CRITFC & Yakama & other tribes; fishery
negotiations—access by Four Treaty Tribes—Yakama—Warm Springs—Umatilla—Nez
Perce; distrust of state and federal governments; appointment to presidential
task force; final report published as George Bush loses to Clinton; Elizabeth
Furse nomination of Strong to President Clinton's Forest Summit (1993);
experience at Forest (Timber) Summit.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Timber summit; appointment to President's Council on
Sustainable Development; Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown; Energy Secretary, Hazel
O'Leary; Under Secretary of State, Tim Worth; Katie McGinty; Bill Ruckelshaus;
Dr. Jim Baker; Dick Barth; John Platt; response to serving on Council;
negotiating with the Bonneville Power Administration for fish money with Katie
McGinty; personal experiences—family; leaving CRITFC; joins Delbert Wheeler
Construction, 1999; Three Sovereigns Forum; Governor Kitzhaber.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 6 | Contents:
Lawsuit; racial/cultural differences between groups;
relationships—environmental groups—Oregon Trout—Lori Bodi—American Rivers—John
Adams, Nature Conservancy— Michelle Perot, Sierra Club—Jonathon Lash, National
Resources Institute—Portland Audubon Society—Bob Dochelt, Pacific Rivers,
Washington Rivers; personal perspectives regarding history; meeting wife.
|
2000-01 |
| 2732 | Mark Ufkes interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 79
pages.
Biography and Description: Mark Ufkes, a development economist
and educator, grew up in Umatilla, Yakama and Nez Perce Indian Country, and
obtained degrees from Washington State University and Harvard University. At
the time of this interview, he lived with his family in Seattle, Washington.
Earlier, Ufkes worked on international economic development in Asia, Africa and
the Middle East. In 1992, he directed efforts to promote private sector
investment and trade in five newly-established, culturally based governments in
former Soviet Central Asia. In that position, he promoted the use of e-mail and
Internet technology to develop a non-profit public service community there. For
the four years prior to this interview, he worked on regional Tribal economic
development issues in the Northwest. Working closely with tribal communities
and the Affiiliated Tribes of the Northwest Economic Development Corporation
(ATNI-EDC) Board of Directors, he coordinated the ATNI Revolving Loan Fund
(RLF), developed the ATNI Tribal Energy program, and the ATNI-EDC Regional
Tourism program. At the time of the interview, Ufkes was guiding Information
Technology strategic planning with Northwest Indians.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Hanford Nuclear Reservation;
Manhattan Project; plutonium production; Richland, Washington; John F. Kennedy;
Columbia River; Cold War; nuclear war; radiation
release—accidental—intentional; Richland politics; Cuban Missile Crisis; public
access to the Columbia River through Hanford; radioactive contamination;
Washington State University (WSU) searching out careers; Columbia River Basin
hydropower development.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Salmon mortality; Grand Coulee Dam; fish ladders; nitrogen
supersaturation; proposed dam at Asotin; dam removal on the Lower Snake River;
boat business opportunity (Hells Canyon); working on international issues;
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard; studying natural resource management;
Hanford; creating a national park at Hells Canyon; agriculture on the Wahluke
slope; collaborative management of natural resources; Hanford Reach salmon
fishery; Columbia Park; Doc Hastings; Wild & Scenic River designation; U.S.
Fish and Wildlife (USFW); Republicans; proposed Ben Franklin Dam at Hanford
Reach; contaminated lands around river; proposed canal and locks through
Hanford Reservation; public's perception of dams over time; Saddle Mountain
Refuge; Norm Dicks; Patty Murray; U.S. Department of Energy (USDOE); boat tour
business; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFS); resource management planning;
fishing at Hanford Reach.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Slade Gorton; Richard Steele; Rick Lamont; Lower Columbia
Basin Audubon Society; being stigmatized; Fitznear Everhardt (sp?); Arid Lands
Ecology Resort; Rattlesnake Mountain; USDOE; Project AIL (sp?); Priest Rapids
Dam; salmon spawning; Tribal access to Hanford Reach; Affiliated Tribes of
Northwest Indians Economic Development Commission (ATNI-EDC); Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA); salmon restoration; dam removal on the Lower Snake River;
salmon and technology; hatcheries; barging; economics & environmental
protection; vision for the future.
|
2000-01 |
| 2733 | Dennis and Bonnie White interview
by Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 57
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: Dennis and Bonnie White, residents of
Trout Lake Washington, were active with Friends of the White Salmon River, the
Columbia Gorge Coalition, and the Columbia Gorge Audubon Society.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Dennis's family background and youth; Bonnie's family
background and youth; Trout Lake, Washington; White Salmon (WA) hydro project;
Public Utility District of Klickitat County Washington; Friends of the White
Salmon; U. S. Forest Service - Mt. Adams Ranger District goals—defeat dams—Wild
and Scenic River designation—remove the Condit Dam; Chuck Williams; Columbia
Gorge Coalition; Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area; PacifiCorp (Pacific Power
and Light); White Salmon River—restoring anadromous fishery; American Rivers;
Friends of the Earth; Yakama Indian Nation; National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS); Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WA DFW); U. S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (USFWS); Condit Dam—historic fish runs; Katherine Ramsell;
Federal Energy regulators Commission (FERC); strategy for dam removal.
|
2000-01 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area designation; Chuck
Williams; Friends of the Columbia Gorge; political changes, 1980; US Forest
Service; Columbia Gorge Commission; difference between National Park and
National Scenic Area status; Nancy Russell; Chuck Williams; Bea House conflict;
appropriate development; private property rights; Friends of the White Salmon;
Wild and Scenic River designation; Sid Morris; social conflict in the Gorge;
gentrification; subverting Darrell Olson's committee; Lyle Point.
|
2000-01 |
| 2734 | Michael Blumm interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 71
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Michael Blumm was a professor at Lewis and Clark College of Law. He graduated
from Williams College and George Washington University Law School. LL.M. He has
worked for the President's Council on Environmental Quality, the Center for
Natural Areas, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For several years
he edited the
Anadromous Fish Law Memo, a periodical analyzing
legal and institutional issues involved in preserving and restoring the Pacific
Northwest's salmon and steelhead runs.
|
1999-11, 2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Coho salmon in Lake Michigan
(hatchery fish from the Columbia River); law school; environmental law;
Environmental Protection Act (EPA); Lewis and Clark Law School; Columbia River
salmon issues; the
Anadromous Fish Law Memo; Clean Water Act (CWA);
Northwest Power Act (NPA); Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); power
forecasting; nuclear power at hydrothermal energy.
|
1999-11, 2000-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); interagency
cooperation; Dan Evans; water budget; U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE);
Snake River; Idaho; Cecil Andrus; dams on the Lower Snake River; Washington;
Lewiston Port; dam drawdown; Willa Nelson; Sockeye and Chinook salmon;
Endangered Species Act (ESA); conflict over hatchery fish; Canadian salmon;
Kettle Falls; Okanogan River; Grand Coulee; Fraser River salmon; hatcheries;
1976 Lower Snake Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan; Yakama; Nez Perce;
Hanford Reach fall Chinook; federal funding to improve fish runs; BPA;
hydropower; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); maintaining the status
quo.
|
1999-11, 2000-02 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
NPA; BPA; NWPPC; authority over the Columbia River hydropower
system; Lower Snake River dam removal; Port of Lewiston; counting salmon; Dan
Evans; Cecil Andrus; seasonal drawdowns; costs associated with maintaining and
re-licensing dams; Condit Dam; PacifiCorp; USACE; fish passage at dams; Pelton
Dam; Warm Springs Tribes; Pacific Gas and Electric (PGE); irrigation
diversions; NMFS; Boeing; Clean Water Act (CWA); water temperature standards
for fish; John Kitzhaber; Oregon Plan; NPA; problems with state salmon plans;
Indian tribes; ESA; CWA; federal oversight.
|
1999-11, 2000-02 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
National awareness of the salmon crisis; federal subsidies;
thoughts on resolving the conflicts; Bonneville Power Administration Fund;
Columbia Basin (Northwest) Intertie system; BPA; Washington Public Power Supply
System (WPPSS) debt; privatizing the BPA; aluminum companies; American Rivers;
Nez Perce adjudication ruling in Idaho; tribal issues regarding environmental
legislation; NMFS; CWA; ESA; salmon spawning; Indian treaties and tribes as
domestic dependent nations; World Court; U.S. Supreme Court.
|
1999-11, 2000-02 |
| 2735 | Terry Thatcher interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 88
pages.
Biography and Description: Terry Thatcher was born in Seattle
and raised in Kent Washington. He graduated from Pomona College with a Bachelor
of Arts in History, was awarded a Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School in 1977
and received an L.L. M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978. From
1978 to 1987 he worked as counsel for the National Wildlife Federation. At the
time of this interview, he was Deputy City Attorney for the city of Portland,
Oregon, working on water issues environmental affairs, and litigation.
|
2000-01, 2000-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; anti-Mormon family stories; Pomona College, California;
changes in Green River Valley farms to warehouses; 1960 Howard Hanson Dam—flood
control; farms zoned to industry; Fraser River fish hatchery history; fishery
history San Juans; Lummi Indians; Sockeye runs on Fraser; Columbia River
hatcheries, destruction of Indian Fishery; Endangered Species Act (ESA); late
development in West; anadromous fish runs in Columbia River; opposition to
dams. Public interest law, Yale Law School; staff attorney National Wildlife
Federation (NWF) 1978; move to Eugene Oregon: Mapleton lawsuit; Mark Hatfield
timber riders; Les AuCoin; 1982 move NWF to Portland; Derek Bell, University of
Oregon; energy work and fish work; Spotted Owl appeals.
|
2000-01, 2000-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Grand Coulee June Hogs salmon;
Cadillac Desert; Benefits and burdens of dams;
industrial society and the environment; genocide of Native Americans; political
struggles; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); subsidies—direct—indirect;
Tongas National Forest; transition; Columbia River economic structures;
individualism vs. community well being; Columbia River fisheries crisis—1970s;
Northwest Power Act (NWPA); Northwest Power Planning Council
(NWPPC)—enforcement—authority—and fish.
|
2000-01, 2000-03 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
NWPPC—fish program; NWF—Salmon River, Idaho lawsuit; Columbia
Basin Protected Areas Program; Federal Energy Regulation Council (FERC); "Power
First" Re-licensing issues; Rock Island Dam; Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS); NWF vs. FERC; water rights issues on Snake River; Stevens Treaty; Boldt
Two decision.
|
2000-01, 2000-03 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Native American fisheries; usual and accustomed places;
compensation; treaties; executive orders; sovereign nation status defined;
US v. Washington; hatchery fish and treaty rights;
Pelton Dam licensing; NWF work; Ranger Rick magazine; NWF—outreach—fund
raising; adversaries—Pacific Power and Light (PP&L)—Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA)—electric industry—aluminum industry—fish and wildlife
interests; public policy; public interest law movement; pessimistic view,
biosphere, global warming, Gaia theory.
|
2000-01, 2000-03 |
| 2736 | George Hinman interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 38
pages.
Biography and Description: George Hinman was born in 1927. He
received a Doctor of Science degree in Physics from Carnegie Melon University
in 1952 and taught physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology until 1963.
Hinman went to Washington State University as the director of the Nuclear
Radiation Center in 1969, and was on the faculty of the Physics Department. In
the 1970s, he became involved in environmental and energy issues and joined the
Energy Policy Council to forecast energy consumption in the Pacific Northwest.
His forecasting showed that the growth rate for energy consumption in the
region was much slower than had previously been estimated. Hinman's reports led
WPPSS (Washington Public Power Supply System) to review the need for the
proposed nuclear power plants, leading to plant termination.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth; education and work; Washington State University;
Nuclear Radiation Center; Energy Policy Council; Northwest Energy Policy
Project; Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); energy forecasting;
Walter Butcher; Northwest Power Act (NWPA); Northwest Power Planning Council
(NWPPC); Pacific Northwest Power Planning and Conservation Act; Pacific
Northwest Regional Commission.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Dixie Lee Ray (Governor); General Accounting Office (GAO);
radioactive waste at Hanford, Washington; Hanford—storage—leaks—boiling and
burping.
|
1999-10 |
| 2737 | Katherine Bohnet and Phyllis
Brown interview by Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 96
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: Katherine Bohnet and Phyllis Brown
are dry land farmers in Wilson Creek, Washington. They have been involved in
groundwater issues and fought the Bureau of Reclamation over inclusion in
Columbia Basin Irrigation Project.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Katherine Bohnet's youth; Wilson Creek, Washington; dryland
farming; modern challenges to dryland farming; North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA); Canadian Wheat Board; subsidies; Phyllis Brown's family
background; youth; tenant farming (dryland farming); grazing; Soil Conservation
Services (SCS); development of dryland farming; fertilizer; deep wells;
groundwater; Washington Department of Ecology (WA DOE); water permits;
development of Columbia Basin agriculture (Wilson Creek area); Columbia Basin
Project (CBP); Bureau of Reclamation (BOR); Grand Coulee; comparison of dryland
and irrigated farming; opposition to irrigation (with the CBP); Syphmon (sp?)
Tunnel; forceful inclusion into the CBP; fighting to withdraw lands from the
CBP; acreage limitations.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
George Seller; Kurt Smith; Sam Israel; Columbia Basin
Development League; CBP development; violation of due process; Keith Higginson;
antagonism by the Wenatchee World and Hugh Blanc;
Jim Cole; lobbying; map showing farmers who wanted exemption from the expansion
of the CBP; irrigation boosters; Ted Osborne; CH2M Hill; Norm Whittlesey.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Washington State University (WSU); Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS); water spreading; abandoning the CBP; rising costs;
Wenatchee World; water mining; Dan Evans; water
permit transfers; WA DOE; deep wells; sewage sludge controversy; Seattle
metropolitan government; Wilson Creek; Grant County Health Department; Columbia
River Basin issues; dam breaching; railroads; wheat transportation;
pesticides.
|
1999-04 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Pesticides—2-4D; Seattle Metro; riparian zone management;
Bureau of Land Management (BLM); noxious weeds; Bureau of Reclamation (BOR);
Ted Osborne; salmon mitigation—regional financial burden; subsidies.
|
1999-04 |
| 2738 | Wilbur Slockish interview by by
Michael O'Rourke
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 44
pages.
Biography and Description: Wilbur Slockish, a Native American
from the Yakama Indian Nation, was born in Wapato, Washington on September 19,
1944. He has been an activist on fishing and nuclear issues affecting the
tribe. At the time of this interview, he was a member of the Hanford Health
Effects Sub-committee and has been involved with the Greenpeace, Military
Production Network.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Fishing at Celilo Falls; impact of dams on fish/wildlife;
industrial pollution of Willamette; Wilbur's fishing protests/arrests on river;
David Sohappy; Wilbur's trial (with Sohappy); conviction and imprisonment;
release and probation; experience in prison; involvement of tribal council on
behalf of defendants; Wilbur's early experiences growing up on reservation;
harvesting natural foods; school; discrimination; loss of native language;
tribal politics; Wilbur's membership on bi-state water quality board; first
awareness of Hanford; diseases among Yakama; Johnny Jackson; mentoring about
Hanford/nuclear issues from Arjun Mahkajani the "real Indian"; Military
Production Network (MPN); Bill Mitchell; Sue Gordon; MPN and discrimination;
Hanford Health Effects Subcommittee (HHES); Madeline Spino (Warm Springs);
membership in HHES.
|
2000-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Work with Greenpeace; Hanford issues; Moses Squeoch; Russell
Jim and Yakama Hanford program; nuclear waste and Yakama Reservation; Joe
Campbell; Grace Thorpe; Paul Rodarte; proposed waste storage—McDermitt
Reservation; Jerry Meninick—conflict with Russell Jim; health studies at
Hanford; fish consumption study; Native American exposures at uranium mines;
long-term nuclear waste disposal; Wilbur's final comments about his commitment
to work on behalf of future generations.
|
2000-02 |
| 2739 | Robert W. Schoning interview by
Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 66
pages.
Biography and Description: Robert Schoning was born Sept. 29,
1923 in Seattle Washington and was educated at the University of Washington. He
was a biologist who worked for the Oregon Fish Commission and was Director
National Marine Fisheries Service. He retired in 1986.
|
2000-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; fish biology; Columbia River
fishing; salmon; canneries; U.S. Marine Corps; Oregon Fish Commission;
Portland, Oregon; dip net fishery at Celilo Falls; dams; Mitchell Act; Fraser
River system salmon; salmon as indicator species; stream clearance projects;
splash dams; sluices; logging; stream degradation; hatcheries; Lake Michigan
Coho; Livingston Stone; salmon population decline; fish mortality studies; U.
S. Army Corps of Engineers.
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Columbia River salmon issues; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service;
U.S. Bureau of Fisheries; Willis Rich; Oregon Fish commission; Idaho and
upriver fisheries; Boldt decision; Celilo Falls; Stevens Treaty of 1855; Judge
Belloni; drift rights on the lower Columbia River; snagging; Native and
non-native fish harvests; fishing zones on the lower Columbia River;
U.S. v. Oregon; Sohappy v.
Smith; usual & accustomed places; The Dalles Dam; Indian drift
netting; compensation at Celilo; daily landings.
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Seufert Cannery; fish wheels; hatcheries; downstream dam
passage and smolt mortality; Marine Mammal Protection Act; National Marine
Fishery Service (NMFS); whales and porpoises; Two Hundred Mile Act;
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission; oceanic conditions.
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Oceanic conditions; salmon behavior in the Pacific Ocean;
Canada; Columbia River salmon; salmon genetics; dam modifications; fishers.
|
2000-03 |
| 2740 | Peter Huhtala interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 65
pages.
Biography and Description: Peter Huhtala is from Astoria,
Oregon, with strong ties to fishing communities along the West Coast. Formerly
program director for Pacific Marine Conservation Council (PMCC), he has
coordinated the Rockfish Rebuilding Campaign since its 2001 launching. He
serves on the Executive Committee of the MFCN, and is President of Columbia
Riverkeepers and Executive Director of Columbia Deepening Opposition Group.
Peter's diverse expertise includes journalism, public speaking and political
strategy.
|
2000-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Finnish and Swedish heritage; Astoria,
Oregon; early years, woodworking; fishing; pilot boats; activism; gillnetting
ban (Oregon); commercial fishing; employment opportunities in Astoria;
canneries; Chinese; population decline in Astoria; gillnetting; fish wheels
& fish traps; horse seining; tuna fishing; environmentally friendly
alternatives (salmon fishing); smelt; Clatsop & Chinook Indians; Richard
Nixon; environmental awareness in the 1960s; nuclear power activism; Stanford
University.
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Nuclear Power Activism; Stanford University; Trojan and Diablo
Canyon reactors; playing music; woodworking; mortgage banking; living in
California; channel deepening in the Columbia River; Columbia River Estuary
Study Task Force (CREST); U. S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE); jetty
construction and channel deepening on the Lower Columbia River; Port of
Astoria; regional port planning; Salmon for All; Ecology Museum of the
Columbia; Columbia Deepening opposition group (CDOG); National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS); Endangered Species Act (ESA); Ron Wyden; Northwest Fisheries
Science Center (NWFSC).
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA); Nina Bell; Columbia
River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC); environmental Organizations against
channel deepening; environmental justice; Civil Rights Act; Clean Water Act;
Funding; personal survival; Columbia Channel Coalition; Columbia River
Alliance; problems with sedimentation resulting from dam removal on the Lower
Snake River; salmon and the Columbia River estuary; Estuarian Turbidity Maximum
(ETM); sediment capping; tern predation; Willapa Bay, Washington; oyster
contamination; radioactive pollution and point source pollution; Hanford.
|
2000-03 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Channel deepening—economics; Port of Portland; Superfund;
Willamette River cleanup; tiered deepening; Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL);
dredging; salmon migrations; entrainment; dredge disposal; Marine Protection
Research and Sanctuaries Act.
|
2000-03 |
| 2741 | Robert Eaton interview by Clark
Hansen
5 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 111
pages.
Biography and Description: Robert Eaton was born in Dayton,
Washington in 1945, and grew up in Parkrose and Portland, Oregon. He has acted
as Executive Director for the Pacific Marine Conservation Council, president
for the Port of Astoria Commission, and is former Executive Director of Salmon
for All.
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Portland, Oregon; Benson Technical
High School; Portland State University; Portland Community College; U. S. Army;
University of Oregon; Park Rose area; Columbia River; Astoria, Oregon; Oregon
Parks and Recreation; Woodburn, Oregon; Up with People; Comprehensive
Employment Training Act (CETA); Astoria Chamber of Commerce—becoming
director—membership; Executive Director for Salmon for All (SFA)—background;
Salmon Summit; Bumblebee Corporation; anti-gillnetting initiatives; commercial
fishing on Lower Columbia River—history; territorial disputes over fishing;
drift rights; Oregon Fish Commission; Columbia River Compact; Columbia River
Fishermen's Protective Union (CRFPU); Northwest Gill-netters Association (NGA);
unifying factors among fishers; overfishing; SFA membership; Endangered Species
Act (ESA).
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Endangered Species Act (ESA); Alaskan fishery; relationship
between sport and commercial fishers; decline of fisheries—widening blame;
Grand Coulee Dam; June hogs (Chinook); Mitchell Act; hatcheries; left &
right hand fish; neglecting tribal needs; (hatchery) supplementation; genetics;
hatcheries as mitigation (not subsidies); Snake River dams; Columbia River
dams; river channel dredging; wetland destruction; downstream smolt migration;
fish transportation; smolt mortality; Magnusen Act; Northwest Power Act (NPA);
Pacific Salmon Treaty; ESA; oceanic conditions; Bill Bakke; Oregon Trout;
Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); Three Sovereigns approach; Bonneville
Power Administration (BPA); Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS); Northwest
Environmental Advocates (NWEA); Northwest Energy Act Coalition (NWEAC); Boldt
Decision; reorganization SFA; commercial fishers—bias in Washington;
Weyerhaeuser; salmon farming.
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Puget Sound; Sid Snyder; Ted Hallock; Angus Duncan; lower
Columbia River salmon business plan; net pen hatcheries; imprinting; Clatsop
Economic Development Council; Tern predation at Rice Island; barging;
appointment process of the NWPPC; Neil Goldschmidt; Barbara Roberts; John
Kitzhaber; upriver policy people; gillnet fishing; National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS); Salmon Summit; Bruce Lovelin; direct service industries (DSI);
Northwest Power Council Coalition (NWPCC); Lewiston, Idaho; Idaho Power; SOS
coalition; anti-gillnetting initiative (OR - #8, 1992) spring Chinook; Sierra
Club; Jim Baker; fishing ghost towns on the lower Columbia; Port Commissioner,
Astoria, Oregon; recreating natural conditions in the Columbia River Basin.
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Boldt Decision; Belloni Decision; fishing at Buoy 10; dip net
fishing at Willamette Falls; Willamette River Superfund; dredging; NMFS;
estuary degradation; bio-accumulation; Pacific Marine Conservation Council
(PMCC); lower river political representation; NWPPC; SOS; bias toward
sportfishers; reflections, past and future; communication with other
river-based interests; SFA agendas; genetic (salmon) sanctuaries; water law;
salmon restoration; problems with status quo management.
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Natural resource industry commonalities—farming and fishing;
small business owners—decision-making; Pacific Salmon Treaty; SFA—policies
supported; fisheries conditions; NWPPC; irrigation; tribal
plans—supplementation—hatcheries; hatchery fish—genetics; June Hogs; Grand
Coulee; Oregon water law; water conflicts worldwide; weather; salmon migration
patterns; salmon conservation methods.
|
2000-February-02 through 2000-04 |
| 2742 | Phillip Meyer interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 96
pages.
Biography and Description: Phillip Meyer was born in 1941 at
Telegraph Creek, British Columbia and studied economics and political science
at the University of Victoria. He received a Masters degree in Economics from
the University of California at Santa Barbara. In the mid 1970s, Meyer was
Chief Social Science Advisor on Habitat Conservation for the Canadian
Department of Fisheries in British Columbia and the Yukon. In 1981 Meyer
started a private consulting firm and did studies for the Bureau of Indian
Affairs on energy analysis. He has also worked on mediation between groups.
|
2000-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Telegraph Creek, Talton Reservation,
British Columbia; Salt Spring Island, BC; Victoria, BC; University of
California Santa Barbara; Rugby; Ventura, California; Canadian Department of
Fishers on the West Coast; salmon statistics; declining salmon populations;
comparison of Fraser and Columbia River system management; Grand Coulee;
hydroelectric power; energy forecasting; Washington Public Power Supply System
(WPPSS); BC Hydro; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); Northwest Power
Planning Council (NWPPC); misinformation.
|
2000-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Douglas Treaties on Vancouver Island; First Nations;
hatcheries; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); National Marine Fisheries Service;
Dan Evans; statute of limitations and the value of salmon; Native Americans;
Shellfish Case; Washington coast; Boldt Decision; Ted Strong; spiritual value
of salmon; expert witness in Native American litigation.
|
2000-04 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Salmon value; compensation—Wishram—Colville; Stevens Treaty;
Celilo Falls; Equal opportunity; environmentalism; upriver/downriver
relationships; prejudice against natives; California's Central Valley; salmon
decline—factors; oceanic conditions; dams; aluminum companies; electricity
rates; biased technical reports; dam removal; Shoshone Bannock; Stevens Treaty;
Treaty of Fort Bridger; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); Warm Springs
Indian Reservation; work with indigenous people and groups; litigation.
|
2000-04 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Elwah Dam removal; Pacific Power & Light; CRITFC; Shoshone
Bannock; Lower Snake River; dam breaching vs. non-breaching; compensation to
tribes; Sohappy Salmon Bust and Salmonscam trial; sovereignty of tribal lands;
Dawes Act; Belloni Court; sppeal to World Court.
|
2000-04 |
| 2743 | William Skylstad interview by Jim
Strassmaier
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 43
pages.
Biography and Description: Bishop William Skylstad was born in
Omak, Washington and grew up in the Methow Valley. He was ordained a Catholic
priest in 1960 and became Bishop of Yakima in 1977. In 1990, he became Bishop,
Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane, Washington. Bishop Skylstad has acted as an
advocate for the Columbia River, and was one of twelve bishops from the Pacific
Northwest and Canada who joined together to issue a pastoral letter regarding
the Columbia River in February 2001.
|
2000-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Methow Valley; apple growing;
Mexican labor; Indians; Chief Joseph & Azwell Dams; seminary school; The
Pontifical College Josephinum; parish work at Sacred Heart Parish in Pullman,
Washington; Washington State University; Assumption Parish in Spokane,
Washington; appointment as Bishop in Yakima, Washington.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Awareness of problems surrounding Columbia River management;
National Conference of Bishops; pastoral letter; National Partnership of
Religion and Environment; biggest concerns surrounding the Columbia River;
sacramental in commons; pastoral letter—terminology—use—intent.
|
2000-05 |
| 2745 | Mitch Sanchotena interview by
Clark Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 66
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Mitch
Sanchotena was Executive Director of Idaho Steelhead and Salmon Unlimited.
|
2000-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background, French Basque; sheep herding; growing up in
Burley, Idaho; youth; Snake River; Milner Dam; salmon fishing on the Middle
Fork of the Salmon River; Bear Valley Creek.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Idaho's salmon fishery; education; service in the Navy;
running a jet boat on the Salmon River; Frank Church Wilderness Area; marketing
the Salmon River; MacKay Bar Corporation; steelhead; litigation against the
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA); Canadian non-treaty storage; Northwest
Power Act (NWPA); salmon allocation; Idaho sport fishing; Idaho Fish and Game;
Columbia River Compact; Pacific Salmon Treaty; Northwest Power Planning Council
(NWPPC); U.S. v. Oregon; Jim Jones; Jim McClure;
Mark Hatfield; appropriating money to install screens on dams; U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers (USACE); "good" science; dam removal on the Lower Snake; Save Our
Wild Salmon Coalition; hatcheries; wild fish management; Bill Bakke; South Fork
Salmon River hatchery; Mitchell Act; Caspian tern salmon predation; marine
mammal salmon predation.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Thoughts on dam removal (domino theory); Idaho Power dams on
the Snake River; Hells Canyon Dam complex; mitigation strategies; Celilo Falls;
infrastructure modification for dam removal; subsidies; evolution of personal
views and interests; Chinook salmon; 1996-1997 floods; climatic cycles; support
for Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery; hatcheries; acclimation facilities; Idaho Fish
and Game; Ed Boldt; turning federal hatcheries over to tribes; optimism for the
future of salmon.
|
2000-05 |
| 2747 | Reed Benson interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 69
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Reed
Benson was the Executive Director, Water Watch of Oregon. Reed Benson graduated
magna cum laude from the University of Michigan
Law School and began working for Water Watch in 1993. He formerly worked for
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a staff attorney for the Land and
Water Fund of the Rockies, and for a Colorado law firm. In 1997, he became a
Water Watch staff attorney specializing in federal water policy.
|
2000-05, 2000-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; early environmental advocacy; education;
Platte River watershed; becoming a water lawyer; water law; overview of western
water issues; western water rights; Columbia River Basin and general water
issues.
|
2000-05, 2000-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Missing/not available.
|
2000-05, 2000-06 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Columbia River—seasonal flows—water withdrawals; early
professional life; Water Watch and the Umatilla Basin Project; Oregon and
Western water law history and water management; tribal water rights.
|
2000-05, 2000-06 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Tribal water rights; Western Water Project; agricultural
litigation along the Columbia River; organizational relationships with
legislators and other organizations; potential changes in water regulations;
Pacific Northwest and Oregon water law and use—contemporary issues; Water
Watch.
|
2000-05, 2000-06 |
| 2748 | Glen Spain by Clark Hansen
7 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 142
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Glen
Spain was the Northwest Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Federation of
Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA), the largest organization of commercial fisher
folk on the west coast. He is a founder of its Institute for Fisheries
Resources, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection and
restoration of salmon and other marine resources. Spain holds a doctorate
degree in Law and had an active environmental business law practice until 1995.
He has been involved as an attorney and activist in many West Coast and
national conservation issues.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Tucson, Arizona; California
Institute of Technology (Cal Tech); nuclear energy and science in general;
Claremont Colleges; The Vietnam draft; Berkeley, California; Mendocino County,
California; communal living.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Vocations for Social Change (VSC); Village One; Fairlawn
Institute; computer technology; Peoples' Energy; New College School of Law;
non-profit consulting; Fairlawn Foundation; U. S. Navy nuclear waste dumping in
the Pacific Ocean; early law practice; Betty Lou Whalley; Pacific Coast
Federation of Fisherman's Association (PCFFA).
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Living in Comptche, California; California Fishers;
hatcheries; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; salmon; Klamath Management Zone;
Endangered Species Act (ESA); California Central Valley; National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS); rice farming; genetic conservation hatcheries; salmon
sanctuaries; PCFFA; Senate Bill 1042 (Oregon); differences between California
and Oregon fishers.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
PCFFA; moving to Eugene, Oregon; Institute for Fisheries
Resources (IFR); Salmon for All; Columbia River fishing issues; Save Our Wild
Salmon (SOS); Net ban ballot initiatives; Allocation Conflicts.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 5 | Contents:
Economic development and population growth; living with limits
(sustainable communities); Sufism; working with spiritual organizations;
spiritual incentives and growth; sustainable resource development; salmon
restoration; ESA; opposition to environmental rollbacks, 104th Congress;
coalition building; IFR; environmental issues and the Republican Party;
decommissioning dams.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 6 | Contents:
PCFFA's efforts to remove dams; dam re-licensing; Savage
Rapids Dam (Rogue River); Lower Snake River dams; economic growth and
environmental degradation; overfishing; Department of Commerce; fisheries
management; Magnuson Act; NMFS; Clean Water Act; Total maximum daily loads
(TMDLs) related litigation; Marine Protected Areas (MPAs); PCFFA; sustainable
fishing; ground fish harvest reduction; dam removal; Columbia Basin dams;
Savage Rapids Dam; energy conservation and renewable energy sources.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| Tape 7 | Contents:
Dam removal in the Columbia Basin; Columbia estuary; dredging;
fishing mortality; technological fixes for the hydropower system; subsidies;
allocation struggles between fishers; relationships with tribes; ESA; Clean
Water Act; fish-friendly urban issues; liability issues for urbanites and
politicians; reactive resource management; litigation under the Clean Water Act
concerning the four Lower Snake River dams; litigation over dredging the Lower
Columbia River; flow augmentation litigation (Columbia River system); wise use
litigation by Common Sense Salmon Recovery.
|
2000-06, 2000-07 |
| 2749 | Robert Tuck interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 74
pages.
Biography and Description: Bob Tuck was a member of the
Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, 1998-2000. At the time of this
inteview, he was a private consultant, providing technical and program
assistance on a variety of fisheries, habitat, and water activities and
projects in Washington and Oregon. He has also provided technical coordination
and assistance for an environmental education program involving numerous school
districts in central Washington.
|
2000-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Puget Sound; Boeing; Yakima Valley,
Washington - urban development; farming and raising dairy cattle (Holstein);
Yakima-Teton Irrigation District; irrigation farming; climatic cycles in Yakima
Basin; Teton River; Columbia River Basin hydropower development; description of
family farm; Roza Irrigation District; Works Progress Administration (WPA);
fishing; salmon; federal irrigation laws - development; U.S. Department of the
Interior (USDOI); General Land Office (GLO); subsidies; overview of Columbia
Basin development history; depletion of salmon runs in the Yakima Basin.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Hatcheries; Oregon moist pellet; work for the Columbia River
Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC); Yakama Indian Nation; Boldt Decision;
Northwest Power Act (NWPA); Endangered Species Act (ESA); Bonneville Power
Administration (BPA); Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); Floyd Donnelly;
Yakima Basin salmon restoration; dam removal on the Lower Snake River; Hanford
Reach; potential for main stem spawning in the Snake River (fall Chinook);
hatchery development; ESA; salmon restoration and Native Americans; Yakama
Indian Nation and Yakima Basin restoration efforts.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
NWPA; Quackenbush decision; spring Chinook; Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR); in-stream flows; Naches River; Kennewick pump
plant—construction; Prosser Dam; subsidies; government buyouts; PacifiCorp
power plant at Wapato; lower Snake irrigation pumps; dams as symbols of
progress; John Day Dam (permanent draw down); provincialism; the federal
government and perceived western individualism; full-cost accounting;
hatcheries; genetic sanctuaries; American River (spring Chinook); Satus Creek
(steelhead); Hanford Reach (fall Chinook); Priest Rapids Hatchery; barging;
conquering nature with technology; salmon restoration goals; federal government
and Indian treaty obligations; plenary power of Congress; Supreme Court and
enforcing treaty obligations; potential for backlash; case regarding criminal
jurisdiction over non-Indians on reservations (Oliphant case from the Puyallup
Reservation); case regarding riverbed ownership of the Yellowstone River;
Belloni and Boldt decisions; thoughts on the future of salmon restoration.
|
2000-05 |
| 2780 | Bill Bakke interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 49
pages.
Biography and Description: Bill Bakke was born in 1945 and grew
up in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. He became a biologist and
the founder of Oregon Trout as well as the director of the Native Fish
Society.
|
2000-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; St. Johns, Portland, Oregon; Lewis River,
Washington; fishing; Swift Creek Dam; Deschutes River, Oregon; Roderick
Haig-Brown; Fly Fishers Club of Oregon; Deschutes Club; fishing organizations
& conservation advocacy; Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife; Oregon
Wild Fish Policy; Commercial fishing and sports fishing; removal of steelhead
from commercial harvests; Clear Creek Fish Hatchery (Clackamas River, OR) and
Livingston Stone; Columbia River salmon; salmon science; Willis Rich; Oregon
Fish Commission; Babcock & Anderson; Fraser River, British Columbia salmon;
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (biological survey); Willamette River;
Bonneville Hatchery (Central Hatchery); Imprinting and homing; water chemistry;
ocean movements; meta-population centers; hatcheries; Henry Regear.
|
2000-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Willamette spring Chinook; local adaptation; domestication
selection (in hatcheries); Endangered Species Act (ESA) listings for salmon;
indicator species; keystone species; Wild Fish Policy (Oregon); Louisa Bateman;
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW); gene conservation; John Day
River salmon and steelhead; Kalama River, Washington; Deschutes River, Oregon;
studies on hatchery-wild fish interactions; ESA; Snake River Chinook; enabling
legislation for the ODFW; Mitchell Act; Bonneville Power Administration (BPA);
Willis Rich; High Mountain Sheep Dam; Lower Granite Dam; Northwest
Steelheaders; Idaho Power dams; Indian fishers and fishing rights; Anti-Indian
salmon management (or lack of); Celilo Falls; The Dalles Dam; Oregon Trout; ESA
listings—Coho—Snake River Chinook salmon; Columbia River Gill-Netters.
|
2000-06 |
| 2781 | David Campiche interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 58
pages.
Biography and Description: David Campiche received a Fine Arts
degree from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon. He then returned to
his hometown in Long Beach Washington and operated an art gallery. In addition,
he his wife Laurie operate The Shelburne Inn in Seaview, Washington. David
Campiche serves on the Board of Directors of the Willapa Bay Alliance.
|
2000-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Description of China Beach in Ilwaco, Washington; Lewis and
Clark; early 19th century history; family background and youth; career
inspirations; Lower Columbia River history—jetties—Columbia River
Channel—islands—Native American fishing—non-native fishing; Desdemona Sands,
Astoria; logging in Pacific and Gray counties; stream degradation and the
Chinook River; early environmentalism; Ilwaco, Washington and Lower Columbia
River canneries; logging; tourism.
|
2000-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Ilwaco, Washington and Lower Columbia River canneries;
logging; tourism; Willapa Bay; Willapa Alliance; Ecotrust; Weyerhaeuser; Nature
Conservancy; Sustainable Community Summit; sea resources; ecotourism; cranberry
spraying (pesticides)—and Native American miscarriages—and oysters—and spartina
(invasive grass).
|
2000-06 |
| 2782 | Michael Farrow interview by Clark
Hansen
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 20 pages.
See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Michael Farrow was Director, Department of Natural Resources for the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
|
2000-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Vietnam; economics; planning for the
Umatilla Indian Reservation; Natural Resource Planning (Umatilla); fishing
rights; Boldt Decision; Columbia River Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC)
Bureau of Land Management (BLM); restoring fish runs in the Umatilla basin
(Umatilla Basin Project); salmon restoration on the Lower Snake River; "Martini
Ranches" in fire and flood zones.
|
2000-07 |
| 2783 | Antone Minthorn interview by
Clark Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 60
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: Antone Minthorn is an enrolled Nez
Perce, and member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
(CTUIR). He has served as chairman of the board of trustees for CTUIR.
|
2000-07 through 2000-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Indian names and naming; Oregon Trail
immigrants; Whitman massacre; Cayuse War; 1855 Treaty (Walla Walla); Wallowa
Nez Perce; Grand Ronde; Pendleton Roundup; origin of Antone Minthorn's name;
living with grandparents; Minam River; Catherine Creek; fishing; John Day
River; Paiutes; Shoshones; Bannock War; General Oliver Otis Howard; combining
Cayuse, Walla Walla and Umatilla on the reservation; youth—WWII; Civilian
Conservation Corps (CCC); German POWs; fishing in Squaw Creek and Buckaroo
Creek; influence of Catholicism and dreamer medicine religion; medicine
men.
|
2000-07 through 2000-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Religious beliefs and practices (personal); fishing; Celilo
Falls; tributary fish; 1855 treaties; treaty rights; Self Determination Act;
tribal revitalization; risks of litigation (re: treaty rights); Umatilla Basin
Project.
|
2000-07 through 2000-09 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Antone Minthorn's grandmother (Titalakimnai); Allotment Acts
of 1885 and 1887; Indian Reorganization Act (Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934); John
Collier; Stevens Treaties of 1855; dissention and division among the Nez Perce;
agricultural development on tribal lands; stock raising; Gonzaga University;
Thorn Hollow; fishing at Celilo Falls; commercial fishing; fishery closure on
the Columbia in 1974; The Dalles Dam; losing salmon; Eastern Oregon State
University; urban planning; Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA); working for the
Umatilla Tribes; community planning approaches—native and non-native; Indian
self-sufficiency; Indian Self Determination Act.
|
2000-07 through 2000-09 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Education; problem solving—high drop out rates—truancy; Indian
Gaming Act; casinos; Antone Minthorn's grandmother; Pendleton Roundup; grain
elevators; BIA; Pendleton Flour Mills; farming; truck stop; salmon restoration;
dam breaching and alternatives; Federal Trust responsibilities; Celilo Falls;
restoring "usual and Accustomed places" (for fishing) through litigation (in
lieu fishing sites); Indian Claims Commission; Indian Claims Act; Northwest
Power Act (NWPA); Northwest Power Planning Council (NWPPC); "Three
Sovereigns"—approach to Columbia Basin issues—problems with finding unity;
Inter-Tribal compacts and treaties; Columbia River Forum; John Kitzhaber; upper
Columbia River United Tribes (UCUT); CRITFC; Snake River Tribes; tribal
unification.
|
2000-07 through 2000-09 |
| 2784 | Jay Minthorn interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 75
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Jay
Minthorn served on the Oregon Legislatures Commission on Indian Services. He
was chairman of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission (CRITFC) and
has served as vice-chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian
Reservation (CTUIR) Cultural Resources Committee. Minthorn has also served on
the CTUIR Board of Trustees and Fish and Wildlife Committee.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background—Nez Perce; Antone Minthorn; Umatilla; youth;
Chief Bill Burke; "Whipman"; raising horses; Umatilla River; dip net fishing at
Chinaman's Hole; steelhead and salmon; depletion and restoration of Umatilla
fishery; suckers; White Fish; lamprey eels; Celilo Falls; Boardman, Oregon;
Blalock Canyon; Shoban (Shoshone Bannock); Yakama; Wishram; First Salmon
Ceremony (spring Chinooks); dancing; Intertribal conflict resolution;
commercial fishing; Seufert Brothers; Deschutes River; nets—dip nets—set
nets—drift nets—gill nets; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
|
2000-08 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Celilo Falls; Pendleton Roundup; fishing buoys; Columbia River
Intertribal Fish Commission (CRITFC); "over the bank sales" (of fish); tribal
fishery enforcement; National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS); regulated (fish)
escapement; hatchery fish and fin clipping; distributing the tribal catch;
managing natural resources; fish restoration, Umatilla River; Antone Minthorn;
Umatilla Basin Project; McNary Dam; irrigators; water conflicts; Three
Sovereigns; development of political and economic capital (tribal); Northwest
Power Planning Council (NWPPC); casinos; First Interstate Bank; development of
non-Indian trust in Indians; habitat restoration; reforestation; restoring the
Umatilla River's natural landscape; Bureau of Reclamation (BOR); Cold Springs
Reservoir; providing minimal instream flows for fish; water spreading; building
a reservoir on the reservation; Bureau of Land Management (BLM); regaining the
tribal land base.
|
2000-08 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Indian names; zoning on the reservation; infringements of
treaty rights; Slade Gorton; Bill Burke; legal issues on the reservation; World
Court; pan-indigenous issues (Indigenous People Resolution); CRITFC; Pendleton,
Oregon; attitudes toward Native Americans; scholarships; Chuck Norris; Gordon
Smith; Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA);
politics; Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA); terns; U. S. Forest Service;
BLM; Interstate 84; growing pains on the reservation; diabetes; returning to
the old ways.
|
2000-08 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Toughts on the future; opening a pawn shop; regaining farm
lands from non-Indians; (Oregon) natural conservation service; Commission on
Indian Services; Karen Quigley.
|
2000-08 |
| 2785 | Lloyd Marbet interview by Clark
Hansen
4 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 88
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Lloyd
Marbet was a caretaker, citizen activist and program manager. His background
includes opposition to the Vietnam War, nuclear power, and protection of the
initiative and referendum process. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1966 to1967.
He also served on the Citizens Utility Board and from 1996 to 2000 on the
Clackamas River Basin Council. Marbet was a candidate for Oregon Secretary of
State in 2000, Pacific Green Party.
|
2000-06, 2001-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; U.S. Navy; Vietnam; Subic Bay,
Philippines; Clark Air Force Base (Manila, Philippines); honorable discharge;
Broon Technical Community College; antiwar advocacy; moving to Portland,
Oregon; The "Portland Scribe"; nuclear energy; reading "Perils of the Peaceful
Atom"; Trojan (nuclear power plant); Portland State University (PSU); Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC); speaking at public hearings and rate proceedings;
Boardman, Oregon nuclear power plants; Portland General Electric (PGE); Nuclear
Thermal siting Council (NTSC); Department of Energy (DOE); Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC); John Bartels; Buella Hand; Eugene Rosolie; Bob Cobb; Oregon
Environmental Council (OEC); Ralph Nader; Bureaucratic obstacles for civic
intervention and participation; Richard Sandvik; Boardman Naval Bombing Range;
NTSC's rejection of PGE's application; moving the site to Pebble Springs.
|
2000-06, 2001-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Opposition to nuclear power at Pebble Springs; Bob Cobb;
raising safety, health and waste issues about nuclear power; NRC's general rule
making proceedings; J. Carl Freedman; John Colberg; Rosolie Bretel; waste
disposal; atomic safety and licensing board; Walter Jordan; values (personal);
Chuck Deterich; money and wealth; living simply; Lloyd Marbet's daughter; list
of major political activities; Teledyne Wachang's low level nuclear waste dump
on the Willamette River; Trojan; protecting Oregon's initiative and referendum
process; River Island Sand and Gravel expansion (mining on flood plain of the
Clackamas River); American Sand and Gravel; Faye Marsh; gravel mining; Camp
Collins; rafting on the Clackamas River; Trojan ballot measures; Skagit Nuclear
Plants; Citizen's Utility Board (CUB).
|
2000-06, 2001-02 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Clackamas River Basin Council (CRBC); Oregon Conservancy
Foundation (OCF); organizing initiative campaigns; making a living; Elaine
Kelly; Greenpeace; Greg Kafoury; Dan Meek; Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA); Pacific Power and Light (PP&L); OCF; PGE; litigation settlement
Pebble Springs; intervention breakdown; Wachang (near defeat); environmental
protection agency (EPA); Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA); Trojan—infant mortality
rates; Ernest Sternglass; Jay Gould; science and politics; energy demands and
prices in the Columbia Basin.
|
2000-06, 2001-02 |
| Tape 4 | Contents:
Economic demands and prices in the Columbia Basin; energy
forecasting; Washington Public Power Supply System (WPPSS); cost overruns;
PGE's reward of stranded assets from the closure of Trojan; energy
deregulation; California's energy crisis; running for secretary of state;
moving toward a more energy efficient society; Joel Schotz; decentralizing
energy sources; thoughts on the future; coming to terms with externalized
costs.
|
2000-06, 2001-02 |
| 2786 | Kathryn Brigham interview by
Clark Hansen
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 17 pages.
See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: At the time of the intervew, Kathryn
Brigham was on the Board of Trustees for the Confederated Tribes of the
Umatilla Indian Reservation.
|
2000-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Personal background; Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indians; Celilo; Cascade Locks; commercial fishing; Sam Cashcash; Nez Perce;
closing of commercial fishing in 1977; shad; Columbia River Fish Management
Plan; U.S. v. Oregon; getting involved in tribal
politics; Intertribal Natural Resource management; hatcheries; allocation
(catch); restocking salmon to the Umatilla River; Northwest Power Planning
Council; irrigation screens; habitat restoration; truck transport; Endangered
Species Act (ESA); ranchers; Carson Creek salmon stocks; hatchery fish;
trucking and barging fish; Grand Ronde River; Columbia River water quality;
improving flows; Ed Chaney; litigation.
|
2000-07 |
| 2787 | Herbert Hammond interview by
Clark Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 51
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Herbert Hammond was a British Columbia Registered Professional Forester with a
Master's degree in forest ecology and silviculture. Hammond has twenty years
experience as an industrial forester, teacher, consultant, and as a researcher
specializing in soil degradation, holistic inventories and prescriptions, and
practical planning systems. Hammond has worked for Weyerhaeuser and Crown
Zellerbach and with the Nisga'a Tribal Council, the Gitksan - Wet - suwet'en
Hereditary Chiefs, the Kluskus Band, the Cortez Island Forest Committee and the
Friends of Ecological Reserves. With his partner Susan Hammond, he co-authored
the
BC Watershed Protection Handbook, the
Community Guide to Forests and
Seeing the Forest Among the Trees - the case for holistic
forest use. They have also formed the Silva Forest Foundation.
|
2000-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Medford, Oregon; McKenzie & Willamette
Rivers; Corvallis, Oregon; forestry; Oregon State University; bioengineering;
University of Washington; US Coast Guard; Crown Zellerbach; British Columbia;
Clearcutting; ecosystem-based forest use; Silva Forest Foundation; First
Nations; Forest Stewardship Council; Nisga'a; academia; forestry; Oregon State
University.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Forestry practices; capitalist driven value systems; keystone
species; indicator species; global economy; Slocan Valley, British
Columbia.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Innu people; building sustainable economies; democracy.
|
2000-09 |
| 2788 | William Green interview by Clark
Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 52
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
William Green was a member of the Ktunaxa/Kinbasket Tribal Council.
|
2000-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Ktunaxa Kinbasket (Tribe); youth; education; Manus Island, New
Guinea; environmental legislation; Nuu-Cha-Nulth; fisheries; Vancouver Island;
North American Resource management; Canadian Columbia River Intertribal
Fisheries Commission; salmon restoration; First Nations; Grand Coulee Dam;
International Joint Commission. Treaty negotiations between British Columbia
and First Nations; R (Regina the Queen) -v- Sparrow; 1982 Constitution Act; R
-v- White and Bob; Okanogan Sockeye; Pacific Salmon Treaty; Pacific Salmon
Commission; International Columbia River Engineering Board; 1964 Treaty; dams;
fish; Pacific Salmon Treaty of 1985.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Fraser River Watershed; Okanogan Watershed Restoration; fish
hatcheries; managing water flows; flood control; B.C. Hydro; riparian zone
restoration; role of salmon in the ecosystem; dam removal; salmon restoration;
renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty in 2014 and 2024; flood control;
hydropower; Northwest Power Planning Council.
|
2000-09 |
| 2789 | Marilyn James interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 48
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Marilyn James was an advocate for First Nations people and a spokesperson for
the Sinixt people in British Columbia.
|
2000-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; growing up adjacent to the Colville
Reservation; racism of native People against Chinese; family ancestry;
repatriation and reburial of Sinixt ancestors; history of the Sinixt people;
the Columbia River Treaty; lost records and documents of the Sinixt people;
Salish dialects; genetic origins of Salish speakers; cultural identity in a
matrilineal society and government manipulation; colonization.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Safety from non-natives on the reservation; Salmon Scam;
fluoride poisoning of salmon; ALCOA; caribou; bull trout; recommending
management strategies to the Ministry of Forests and Ministry of the
Environment; becoming a representative for the Sinixt; repatriating Sinixt
remains from the Canadian government.
|
2000-09 |
| 2790 | Lloyd Sharpe interview by Clark
Hansen
3 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 78
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Lloyd
Sharpe was a rancher and surveyor for Columbia River System (Canada), Columbia
River Engineering. He was a plaintiff in litigation regarding compensation for
lost land in British Columbia.
|
2000-09 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; early Canadian westward movement; Baines
Lake, British Columbia; Willoughby Dam; Depression years; Baker Lumber Company;
logging the Kootenay River watershed; working for the Department of Northern
Affairs; Columbia River engineering; Columbia Lake; Mica Dam; plan to divert
the Upper Columbia River into the Fraser River; Columbia River Treaty; The
Parsons Plan; Grand Coulee Dam; Duncan Dam; Libby Dam; Mica Dam; renegotiating
the Columbia River Treaty in 2024; fighting for compensation for construction
of Libby Dam; settlement.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Fighting for compensation—Libby Dam; settlement; British
Columbia Land Branch; Jack Cram; litigation against the provincial government;
B.C. Hydro; Arrow Lakes; Department of Highways; fluctuating reservoir levels;
Endangered Species Act (ESA) salmon and sturgeon; Bull River hatchery (sturgeon
propagation); Columbia Basin Trust; Libby Dam reservoir levels; recreation
potential; Columbia Power Corporation; Josh Smake; impact money; privatizing
Canadian dams on the Columbia.
|
2000-09 |
| Tape 3 | Contents:
Regional rifts within British Columbia and Canada; socialism;
destroying salmon—extinction; water scarcity and massive water transfer
schemes; agricultural subsidies; Columbia Basin Trust; B.C. Hydro; Columbia
River Treaty re-negotiation; First Nations; anti-Indian sentiment; damming the
Fraser River.
|
2000-09 |
| 2791 | Louie Pitt, Jr. interview by
Clark Hansen
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 44
pages. See librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Louie
Pitt, Jr. was Director of Governmental Affairs and Planning for the
Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.
|
2001-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; youth; Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs;
living in Hollywood and Madras, Oregon; family history and tribal history;
voting districts on the Warm Springs Reservation; termination era; getting an
education; Bureau of Indian Affairs.
|
2001-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Vietnam War memories; raising children; alcoholism;
environmental management on Warm Springs Reservation; fighting non-sustainable
forest management; casinos; sustainable management; hatcheries.
|
2001-02 |
Series B:: Camas, Washington Community Histories , 1998-2000Return to Top
7 Interviews (13 cassette tapes). 2773-2773.7.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2773 | Printed material from Center for
Columbia River History Web Site. Portions of Web Site that use quotes from oral
histories collected for the Camas Community History Project. Written and
constructed by Kathy Tucker. Edited by Laurie Mercier. |
|
| 2773.1 | Chuck Williams interview by Kathy
Tucker. Also present, Lisa Hubbard
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 16 pages.
See Librarian for restrictions.
Biography and Description: Chuck Williams, a writer and
photographer of Caucasian and Cascade Indian descent, owned a photography
gallery in The Dalles, Oregon at the time of this interview. He is author of
Bridge of the Gods: A Return to the Columbia Gorge,
published by Friends of the Earth in 1980. He has been an activist with Friends
of the Earth and during the 1980s he fought against National Scenic Area
designation for the Columbia River Gorge, and worked to have the Gorge
designated a National Park. Williams is enrolled with the Grande Ronde
Tribe.
|
2000-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Personal background—photography—Columbia Gorge Gallery; Vista
program—description; Cascade Indian family history—Kalliah—Tumulth; Native
Americans in the area; identity issues—as Caucasian—as Native American;
Columbia Gorge protection—land use issues in the Gorge; discrimination; Indian
fishing sites—in lieu fishing sites for
compensation; Bonneville Dam; Friends of the Columbia Gorge; Native American
leaders—Johnny Jackson—Louis and Lillian Pitt—Tumulth—Nelson Lilitum.
|
2000-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Teninos; Warm Springs; Columbia Gorge Discovery Center;
Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center; Center for Columbia River History
Websites.
|
2000-04 |
| 2773.2 | Kathy Sinclair interview by Kathy
Tucker
2 sound cassettes (ca. 90 minutes): analog. Transcript, 16
pages.
Biography and Description: Kathy Sinclair was born in Camas in
1921. She worked at the Camas mill and has lived in the town her entire
life.
|
2000-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background—Greek heritage; mill strike—strikebreaker;
ethnic groups in Camas—Mexicans—Italians—African-American; Greek Orthodox
Church; Union at the mill; working at the mill; working at Kaiser—pay scale
compared to mill; Camas coffee shop—The Dixieland; Camas Days
celebration—Western Days; Okies move in.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Bonneville Dam; use of the Columbia River—for the
mill—recreation—transportation; Camas identity.
|
2000-05 |
| 2773.3 | Jean Moszeter interview by Kathy
Tucker
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 13
pages.
Biography and Description: Jean Moszeter grew up in Yakima
Valley, married in 1948 and moved to Camas, Washington in 1959. She raised her
family in Camas and became active in community affairs.
|
2000-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Moving to Camas; Washougal River; working for Camas School
Board; involvement with the United Camas Association of Neighborhoods
(UNAC)—Lakeview and Lacamas Lake—being a "rabble-rouser" on environmental
issues—changes in Camas over the years; Prune Hill—development fees—congestion;
Fort James—Crown Zellerbach—attitude towards the mill; Bonneville Dam—effect on
the Columbia River; the Pendleton Woolen Mills; Clark County's Citizens in
Action; environmentalists; Lacamas Shores; UCAN—the conservancy zone—Goot
Park—people involved with issues.
|
2000-10 |
| 2773.4 | Crystal Odum interview by Kathy
Tucker
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 14
pages.
Biography and Description: Crystal Odum is African American and
grew up in San Francisco and Stockton, California. She moved to Camas,
Washington and began working in the Camas paper mill in 1976.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; San Juaquin Valley; education—Delta College;
move to Camas, 1976; the Camas mill—race issues—initiation of new
workers—Vietnamese refugee workers—gender issues on the job—the union—the
self-managed workforce; environmental issues— smell of chemicals; living in
Camas; going to Nigeria.
|
2000-02 |
| 2773.5 | Bob Cochrane interview by Laurie
Mercier
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 18
pages.
Biography and Description: Bob Cochrane grew up in Yacolt,
Washington and began working in the Camas Paper Mill in the 1960s. He was a
member of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers.
|
2000-06 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Starting on the number five paper machine; Association of
Western Pulp and Paper Workers—Local 5—International Paperworkers Union—the
Pulp and Sulfite union— tension among families—autonomy from the larger unions;
Pulp and Paper Workers' Resource Council; environmental issues—Spotted Owl;
environmental regulations; mechanization and modernization of the mills; job
preservation; exporting raw materials; Fort James; Crown Zellerbach;
Weyerhaeuser; Asian markets—log sales; strikes and lockouts.
|
2000-06 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Changes in Camas with hi-tech—downsizing the company; The
United Brotherhood of Paperworkers—Pace—age of the work force; minorities and
equal opportunity; Columbia River and dioxin pollution—the cluster rules—water
levels; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and women's
rights—improvement in working standards—safety issues—hazardous chemicals—MSDS
labels; shift work; work schedules.
|
2000-06 |
| 2773.6 | Dean Dosset interview by Melissa
Williams
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 9
pages.
Biography and Description: Dean Dosset was born in Kellogg,
Idaho. He moved to Camas in 1963 and became involved in city government. He
served as mayor at the time of this interview.
|
2000-07 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Move to Camas—impressions, 1963; work available in the area;
history of Camas Paper Mill—Crown Zellerbach—James River—Fort James—Georgia
Pacific; community economic dependence on the mill; soliciting businesses to
move to Camas; housing developments in the area—Prune Hill—Grass Valley—Lacamas
Shores; balancing environment with growth; economic and racial diversity in
Camas; community character—as an independent, small town; Camas school
system—effects of growth; I-205 impact to community; the role of the mill in a
diversified economy; the United Camas Association of
Neighborhoods—organizing—involvement; Camas school
district—superintendents.
|
2000-07 |
| 2773.7 | Richard Kingsbury interview by
Kathy Tucker
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 18
pages.
Biography and Description: Richard Kingsbury is an African
American who was born in Texas and grew up in Seattle. He lived in Portland,
Oregon and moved to Camas, Washington to work in the paper mill.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Move from Seattle to Portland, Oregon; racism in the North and
South; military draft—Vietnam; racism in the military; disabled veterans;
Delayed Stress Syndrome; applying for a job at the paper mill in Camas,
Washington; buying a house in Camas; finding a mentor; racism at the mill; meal
tickets; the union; interracial marriage in Camas; women supervisors; Project
Early Bird; Urban League; strike at the mill; Asians at the mill;
|
2000-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Work at the mill—red tagged—Kraft Mill Department—first
cook—diversity; moving to Vancouver and raising an interracial family.
|
2000-02 |
Series C:: Columbia Slough, Oregon Community Histories , 1998-2000Return to Top
23 Interviews (32 cassette tapes). 2772-2772.23.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2772 | Printed material from Center for
Columbia River History Web Site. Portions of Web Site that use quotes from oral
histories collected for the Columbia Slough Community History Project. Written
and constructed by Donna Sinclair. Edited by Laurie Mercier. |
|
| 2772.1 | David Kasch interview by Michele
Montzouranis
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 9
pages.
Biography and Description: David Kasch was born in Portland,
Oregon in 1925. He worked on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers as a deckhand,
skipper, tugboat captain and Columbia Riverboat pilot. Mr. Kasch lived in the
University Homes wartime housing project and saw the Vanport Flood.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
North Portland, Oregon—childhood—changes; biographical
information; University Homes; Vanport, Oregon; World War II; 1996 Flood;
Sternwheeler and Steamers—Portland—Jean—Henderson—Columbia
Gorge—Queen of the West; Jack Taylor; Fred
Meyer Trust; Oregon Maritime Museum; Shaver Transportation; Columbia River
Pilots; barges; tugboats; Vancouver, Washington; Crown Zellerbach—log rafting;
Camas, Washington; post-World War II shipping industry; tugboats—Valiant—Captain
George—Chinook; work as towboat operator;
George Shaver; transportation and hauling goods on the Columbia River; ship
size—container ships—yachts; accidents on the Columbia River; interest in river
work.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.2 | Ronald Bunn interview by Geoff
Wetherell
1 cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 10 pages.
Biography and Description: Ronald Bun (English, Scot, Welch
heritage) was born on April 11, 1929 in Sparks, Nebraska. He came to Portland
in 1944 because his father obtained a job as a ship builder, and the family
lived near Guilds Lake. Mr. Bunn worked as a photo engraver at American
Engraving (later Oregon Printing Plates) from 1944 to 1972, retiring from
Oregon Printing Plates in 1994. At the time of this interview, Ronald Bunn
lived near Whitaker Ponds in Portland and had turned down three different
purchase offers by Metro for his property.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information—Sparks, Nebraska; move to Portland,
Oregon; father's work; Whitaker Ponds—description—wildlife—landscape
change—pollution; Columbia Boulevard—agriculture—Japanese Americans—Okazaki
family; truck farming; work as photo engraver—American Engraving Company;
Oregon Printing Plates; Vanport Flood; Jantzen Beach Amusement Park; southeast
Portland—industrial development; Columbia Boulevard—sewage—industrial
development; Krueger Family; Whitaker School—fire; regional
government—Metro—negotiations regarding property; Metro Greenspaces—Whitaker
Ponds Greenspace.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.3 | Tim Hayford interview by Jacob
Lahmers
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 17
pages.
Biography and Description: Tim Hayford was born on August 18,
1955 in Portland, Oregon where he grew up. He attended Jesuit High School,
Portland State University and Oregon State University. He was the manager of
Multnomah County Drainage District #1 between 1980 and 1999, and was an
independent contractor at the time of this interview.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tapes 1 & 2 | Contents:
Biographical information; Multnomah Drainage District #1
(MCDD#!)—geographic boundaries; drainage districts—history—pumping
systems—dredging—filling—changes; Columbia Slough—geography—landscape—as a
managed system—irrigation; Reclamation Act—effects; formation of drainage
districts; Sauvies Island; Port of Portland, 1930s—airport; lakes near Columbia
Slough; Vanport, Oregon; Vanport Flood (1948)—levy breach—levy construction;
Heron Lakes Golf Course—history; Portland International Airport—history; Sandy
Drainage District; Peninsula Drainage District; Kaiser Aluminum;
decision-making regarding land after the Vanport Flood; Port of
Portland—Portland International Airport, 1960s; city of Portland—boundaries;
Columbia Slough—combined sewer overflows; Bull Run; Tualatin River—pollution;
Columbia Slough—pollution—Tri-chloryletheline (TCE) contamination—Boeing; Air
National Guard—pollution; flood control and development; impacts of
development; MCDD#1—stakeholders—Gresham—Troutdale—Fairview—Wood
Village—Multnomah County—property owners; MCDD#1—maintenance and operations;
Glen Jackson bridge—construction—environmental impact—history; I-205—runoff
disposal; Columbia South Shore—industrial development; Airport Way expansion;
Government Island; Portland International Airport—airplane de-icing—pollution
and the Columbia Slough—environmental regulations; social composition—farmers;
Columbia Slough—management issues—water quality—temperature—vegetation—natural
areas; Dave Hendricks.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.4 | Bill Miller interview by Stacy
Danaher
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 30
pages.
Biography and Description: Bill Miller (Irish, English
heritage), a St. Johns, Portland, Oregon resident, was born December 11, 1916
in Filer, Idaho. His family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1924 and he spent most
of his life living in Northeast Portland. In this interview, he spends one hour
talking with Stacy Danaher in his living room, and the second hour driving
around and showing her the landscape of the Columbia Slough, including he
recalls the lakes and sloughs have been filled.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; move to Portland, Oregon; father's
employment; built home in St. Johns; Albers Milling Company—mother's
employment; earthquake (1961?); description of St. Johns, 1920s—recreation as a
child; Willamette River and lakes—fishing—recreation; Ramsey Lake; Bybee Lake;
Smith Lake; Five Mile Lake; Columbia Slough—fishing; Ogden Slough; Arrowhead
Bend; Sitton Elementary School; Wesco writing; schools—Williams—James John—Mrs.
Hickman—Bob Sundstrom; Roosevelt High School; meeting his wife—blind
date—dancing; dancing—Jantzen Beach—Glen Miller—Tommy Dorsey; Lotus Isle; Great
Depression—St. Johns; neighborhoods—alienation—historic cohesion; Arrowhead
Bend; Childhood memories of the Columbia Slough—boating—undertow—drowning;
brother-in-law building dikes around the Columbia Slough; Fern Keels; Columbia
Slough—changes in the landscape; West Coast Concentrate; White Star
Concentrate; Bob Seufert; Johnny Todd; St. Johns Bridge dedication; St. Johns
Ferry; Bob Catrennace; Oregonian route (paper
route); Oregon Convention, 1959; joining the Oddfellows; Oddfellows
activities.
|
2000-08 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Recreation on the Columbia Slough; Vanport Flood; Three Corner
Lake; Columbia Slough—pollution; Bybee Lake (St. Johns Landfill);
Childhood—earning money—Bob Katrinas—recycling; Terminal Four—changes in the
landscape; North Bank Highway; St. Johns Depot (railroad station); Star
Cannery; agriculture—truck farming—in North Portland; North Oswego;
Oregon Journal route; Lombard; St. Johns Hardware;
Mr. Butnik; City Lake; Willamette River; Nuthaven—Columbia Grain Incorporated;
Willamette Slough; development in North Portland; Five Mile Lake—recreation;
Ramsey Lake; Ogden Slough; Shaver Transportation; Lando Lake—Albers Milling
Company—Triangle Building Company; Frenchie Bozy's Lake; Kelly Point Park;
Union Pacific; duck hunting; Smith Lake; logging on the Columbia Slough; North
Portland Road; Suttle Road; St. Johns Woods; Pier Park; Black Woods; county
road; Ledbetter.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.5 | Jim Douglas interview by Caseman
Thompson
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 18
pages.
Biography and Description: Jim Douglas (Scot Canadian ancestry)
was born on March 31, 1905 on Oneonta Street in Portland, Oregon where he
remained throughout his life. He attended Woodlawn Elementary School and
Jefferson High School (graduated 1921). He worked in construction, at a stone
quarry, and spent 45 years working for General Electric while operating a
number of side businesses.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tapes 1 & 2 | Contents:
Biographical information; Prineville, Oregon; stagecoach ride
over Grizzly Pass on the Shaniko Stage; Woodlawn Elementary School; General
Electric Company—training—work in management; Guilds Lake; father, James
Douglas, Montrose, Scotland (a stonemason); mother, Canadian—ran boarding house
in Deadwood, South Dakota; family migration from Canada and Scotland; Woodlawn
Neighborhood—social compositon—African American family (former
slaves)—Europeans—Dutch—Scot—German—Irish; Captain Henry Vaknockin (Willamette
Riverboat pilot); description of streets—gravel; occupations of neighbors;
streetcar transportation—Woodlawn cars—Vancouver cars—Union Avenue (Martin
Luther King Boulevard); Vancouver Ferry—description of route to ferry landing;
Vancouver Avenue—naming; Columbia River—description; marriage and family;
meeting his wife; entrepreneurial activities—Woodlawn Theater—Woodlawn Athletic
Club; work ethic; competition regarding building the St. Johns Bridge and the
Sellwood Bridge; Council Crest - streetcar—amusement park; recreation on the
Columbia Slough; changes in the St. Johns Neighborhood—landscape—ethnicity;
neighborhood police; self-sufficiency—chickens—gardens; swimming in the
Columbia Slough; Renee's Lake; farming—truck gardening—North Portland; dairy
farms; hog ranch; boating on the Columbia Slough and Willamette River; tidal
effect on Columbia Slough; Jantzen Beach—as Columbia Beach—amusement park;
Vancouver Railway Company; changes in street names (Woodlawn); building changes
(Woodlawn); Sullivan's Gulch—Hooverville; reflections.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.6 | George Mitchoff interview by Josh
Kline
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 14
pages.
Biography and Description: George Mitchoff (Hungarian heritage)
was born in Portland, Oregon on December 19, 1928. He attended Portland State
University, served in the Army in the Korean War, and worked for Techtronics
for 26 years.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history—Mount Angel—Northwest Portland; father,
Columbia Steel Casting Company; mother, worked in box factory; sister, Virginia
Griffith; Great Depression—Kenton Neighborhood, Portland,
Oregon—agriculture—roads—lack of work; father, black lung disease; Catholic
education in Kenton; Portland high schools—private and public; description of
home in Kenton; Prohibition—moonshiner; Italian family, Lassetto; Kenton
Neighborhood description, 1930s; grocery stores; life as a teenager in Kenton;
recreation on the Columbia Slough; golf courses and waterways; sawmills—Denver
Avenue—Willamette River—cedar mills; tugboats; logging; Vanport Flood (1948);
Kelly Point Park; family activities—Kenton; Vanport City; Columbia University
Homes; post-flood—lumber salvage; Columbia
Slough—recreation—fishing—wildlife—landscape—pollution
(slaughterhouses)—industry—future; Porky's; Schmeer Road; combined sewer
overflows (CSOs); development—Delta Park complex; industry in North Portland;
waterway pollution—social impacts; Swift & Company; World War
II—activities; Smith & Bybee Lake Restoration Program; U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers; Port of Portland; reflections—Slough access; Columbia Slough
Regatta.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.7 | Jim Regan interview by Keith
Dobler
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 10
pages.
Biography and Description: Jim Regan (German heritage) was born
in Hamilton Creek, California in 1926 and moved to Southeast Portland as a
child in 1933. He attended Vanport College, the University of Portland, worked
for the Gunderson Brothers Shipyards, and as an engineer, manufacturing food
machinery.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; Vanport College—describes; Vanport
Flood—experience; Columbia Slough—boating—Burlington—fishing—log
rafts—pollution; Citizen's Advisory Committee for Multnomah County; land use;
Kaiser Shipyards; work in shipyards; Gunderson Brothers—World War II—types of
ships—pay; reflections on the Columbia Slough.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.8 | Alta Mitchoff by Josh Kline
1 sound cassette (ca. 30 minutes): analog. No Transcript.
Biography and Description: Alta Mitchoff (German heritage) was
born May 16, 1932 in Portland, Oregon and lived in the Kenton Neighborhood at
the time of this interview. Her family moved to Portland, Oregon at the turn of
the century and settled in North Portland.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family migration to Portland, Oregon, early 1900s; Arlington
Place—lived with grandmother; parent's occupations; parent's divorce; childhood
in North Portland—during Great Depression—description of landscape—shopping on
Lombard at Piggly Wiggly Store—in Kenton—buildings; high school
experiences—recreation—downtown Portland—work;
transportation—trolleys—streetcars; reflections on kids today; worked in Japan;
return to Portland; meeting George Mitchoff in Portsmouth; moving to Kenton,
1961—demographic description—Tierney Family—Anderson Family; Columbia
Slough—Regatta—picking berries—dikes—attitudes toward—fishing in the
Slough—demographics; childhood recollections—as a female; Vanport Flood—rumors;
community change—impact of traffic—fewer industries
(slaughterhouses)—Armor—Swift & Company; Jantzen Beach—description;
experiences in North Portland; pollution in the Slough.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.9 | Ed Washington interview by George
Winston Weatheroy
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 13
pages.
Biography and Description: Ed Washington (African American) was
born on February 26, 1937 in Birmingham, Alabama. He moved with his mother to
Vanport City, Oregon on June 6, 1944 and lived in the city during the Vanport
Flood of 1948. Washington attended schools in North Portland and Portland State
University. He retired from U.S. West Communications after 22 years, taught at
Portland State University, and became a Metro Councilman. He has also served as
president of the NAACP and has worked with the Urban League and Black United
Front.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Move from Birmingham, Alabama to Vanport, Oregon; Vanport—as a
child—description—discrimination—post war; closing the shipyards; father's work
in the shipyards; mother's work; parent's separation; Vanport Flood—description
of day—loss to family; post-flood housing at Swan Island and Guild's Lake;
post-flood experience—discrimination; Columbia Slough
experiences—recreation—swimming—pollution (slaughterhouses)—fish—changes since
childhood; impact of fishing in North Portland—contamination; Mrs. Hazel Hill,
teacher; politics—personal attitudes; political work to clean up the Slough;
starting Whitaker Ponds project; Columbia Slough pollution and
industrialization—recognition of—Port of Portland, de-icing at Portland
International Airport; reflections—future of the Slough; impact of pollution on
African American community; environmental coalition; fishing on the
Slough—Russians—Vietnamese—African Americans; Albina; Vanport—African American
police officers—Mr. Jesse—Mr. Travis—Mr. Matt Dishman.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.10 | Harue Mae Ninomiya interview by
Stacy Lambach
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 10
pages.
Biography and Description: Harue Mae Ninomiya (Japanese
American) was born March 22, 1919 in Portland, Oregon. She attended school in
The Dalles, Oregon and in Portland. Her family owned a truck farm and grocery
store, and she and her husband owned a store in Vanport, Oregon when the 1948
flood took place. Mae Ninomiya and her family were also interned at the Pacific
International Exposition Center during World War II from May 3 to September 12
1942 and then at the Minidoka Relocation Camp in Idaho.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; truck farming, fruit stand, and
grocery store in North Portland; work at the store while attending Jefferson
High School; women and work; World War II—effect on family; relocation—property
issues—moving day; Pacific International Exposition Center (Assembly
Center)—description of relocation quarters—teaching—work—food—housing; Minidoka
Relocation Camp—description—experiences; Tule Lake—transportation—husband's
experience; World War II—experiences—return to Portland, Oregon—re-opening the
grocery store—family participation in U.S. military—father's response—brother's
return from military service.
|
2000-08 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Vanport, Oregon—race relations; Vanport Flood; work as an aide
at James John School; work as a bookkeeper at Madison High School;
retirement—going back to school at Portland State University—writing a book,
U.S. Citizen's Behind Barbed Wire—other
activities.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.11 | Tony Fazio interview by Patrick
McGinnis
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 6
pages.
Biography and Description: Tony Fazio (Italian heritage) was
born in Portland, Oregon in February 1930. His family came to the Portland area
in the 1920s and settled in North Portland. The family farmed on Sauvies Island
and also owned a cannery.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; farming on the Columbia Slough; recollections
of the Great Depression; Vanport Flood (1948)—impact to cannery—impact to
crops—clean up; farming on the Columbia Slough—challenges—canneries—crops;
industrialization on the Columbia Slough; move to Sauvies Island; farmer's
market; World War II experiences on the homefront; Sauvies Island Ferry; future
plans for family property.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.12 | Elsie Norris interview by Shelly
O'Connor
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 8
pages.
Biography and Description: Elsie Norris (Caucasian) was born on
January 17, 1916 in Portland, Oregon. She grew up in close proximity to the
Columbia Slough, and attended George School, Washougal, and Roosevelt.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; St. Johns—early 1900s; Salvation Army band;
Dr. Graves; Columbia Boulevard—description, 1920s; Five Mile Lake—swimming;
Lotus Island; Jantzen Beach; George School; Roosevelt High School; picking
blackberries; Vanport Flood, 1948; Three Corner (Triangle) Lake; World War
II—acted as block warden; North Portland—race relations—childhood recreation;
Columbia Slough—recreation—houseboats—safety (drowning); childcare; domestic
activities; St. Johns Bridge dedication; lion in St. Johns (Chatauqua); home
construction on top of cemetery at Mears Street and McCrum; attitudes toward
Native Americans; family relations; North Portland Road.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.13 | Richard Brown interview by
Kirsten Wasche
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 9
pages.
Biography and Description: Richard Brown (African American) was
born in Harlem, New York City, New York. He joined the U.S. Air Force in 1956,
and when he retired in 1976 he moved to Portland, Oregon where he met his wife
and remained. He was a community activist involved with the Columbia Slough,
and at the time of this interview he served as co-chair of the Black United
Front and owned a photography studio in Portland.
|
2000-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; military experience—airborne
communications; African Americans in the U.S. military; Columbia
Slough—awareness of—pollution and industry; environmental degradation and
minority communities; Don Frances; Nina Bell; signs on the Columbia Slough;
relations between the city of Portland and community groups; fishing on the
Columbia Slough—contamination; grassroots education efforts—Asian
community—Russian community; Environmental Justice Advocacy Group (EJAG);
environmental movement and minorities; Willamette River Keepers; video—"The
Water in Our Backyard"; connections between race, class, and pollution;
combined sewer overflows (CSOs) and fishing; Black United Front—community
livability—philosophies (equality); Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
(DEQ); activism—environmental conference in Brazil—minority concerns; Harlem,
New York—United Nations tour—pollution; balancing jobs and environmental
concerns.
|
2000-08 |
| 2772.14 | Dave Hendricks interview by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 11
pages.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview, Dave
Hendricks was the operations manager for the Multnomah Drainage District #1
(MDD#1). MDD#1 also managed Peninsula Drainage District #1 and #2, and Sandy
Drainage Improvement Company, each of which abut the Columbia Slough.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Multnomah Drainage District #1—operations—crossdikes;
protected communities—Troutdale—Fairview—Gresham—Wood Village—Multnomah County;
flood plains; role of the Columbia Slough in the Multnomah County Drainage
District; pump stations—district management; Slough maintenance; flood control;
MDD#1 involvement with—Columbia Slough Watershed Council—city of Portland
Bureau of Environmental Services—Oregon Department of Environmental
Quality—Port of Portland—Governor's Watershed Council—Neighborhood
Associations—environmental groups—U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; environmental
legislation; total maximum daily loads (TMDLs); environmental regulations;
Columbia Slough sediment contamination (DDT, DDE); combined sewer overflows
(CSOs); wetland maintenance; development and fill by MDD#1; non-native,
invasive species management; Columbia Steel Castings—fill proposal; economic
development on the Columbia Slough; wildlife on the Columbia Slough; U.S.
Department of Fish & Wildlife; levies—erosion—inspection—design—impact of
wind—innovations—weak links; landscape change on the Columbia Slough; 1996
Flood—response by MDD#1—Marine Drive closure—problems—labor
force—landslides—recovery; Federal Emergency Management Act (FEMA); Upper
Columbia Slough; Middle Columbia Slough; culvert maintenance by private
landowners; Heron Lakes Golf Course; Portland International Raceway; Vanport,
Oregon; Bridgeton levy.
|
2000-02 |
| 2772.15 | Susan Barthel interview by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 13
pages.
Biography and Description: Susan Barthel was born in Port
Washington, Wisconsin on June 18, 1952 where she grew up on her family's farm.
Barthel began working for the Bureau of Environmental Services in 1993 and was
the Outreach Coordinator for the Columbia Slough Watershed at the time of this
interview. She also served on the Columbia Slough Watershed Council.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Obtaining job at the Bureau of Environmental Services;
background and education; first recollections of the Columbia Slough; role of
the Bureau of Environmental Services (BES) in managing the Columbia Slough;
Northwest Environmental Advocates lawsuit; Clean Water Act; North Portland
sewers; Bob Koch—plans to improve the Slough; water quality; Columbia Slough
Watershed Council (CSWC)—formation—organization—rules—challenges—successes;
stakeholders in the CSWC—Pam Arden—Michael Houck—Don Frances—Steve
Hawkins—Deanna Hinton—Anne Nickel (Columbia Corridor Association)—Chris Noble
(Fairview Lake)—Greg Malarkey (Malarkey Roofing)—Chuck Harrison (Halten
Company)—commercial interests; City of Portland involvement with creating the
CSWC; Pam Wiley; Americorps participation on the Slough; CSWC projects; Slough
Fish Health Advisory; Black United Front; warning signs on the Slough; Kelly
Point Park; race relations on the Slough; sign
translation—Spanish—Russian—Vietnamese—Cambodian—Lao; fishing on the
Slough—contamination; distribution of information regarding health
risks—involvement of Hispanic Access Center and International Refugee Center;
safe fish preparation; Multnomah County Health Department recommendations;
development and industrialization on the Slough; Airport Way; Rivergate;
combined sewer overflows; environmental regulations and the city of Portland;
St. Johns Landfill—Expanded Wastewater Treatment Plant; Sediment Project
(Buffalo Slough Sediment Study); reflections on future of the Slough; Clean
Rivers Website.
|
2000-02 |
| 2772.16 | Jane Graybill interview by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 14 pages.
Newspaper article, "Drinking Water committee addresses well-field issues."
Biography and Description: Jane Begg Graybill was born on
September 14, 1941 in Portland, Oregon. She moved to the Blue Lake/Fairview
Lake area with her husband in 1967. They built a home in view of Fairview Lake
and at the time of this interview Jane Graybill was a member of the Columbia
Slough Watershed Council. She was also a citizen activist, attempting to halt
development on Fairview Lake.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; recollections of Blue Lake and
Fairview Lake in the late 1960s; flood control on the Columbia Slough—impact on
Fairview Lake; changes in Fairview Lake; dredging at Fairview Lake; U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers; Multnomah Drainage District #1; Blue Lake; sediment
contamination in Fairview Lake (DDT, DDE, chlordane, deleldrin); Buffalo Slough
Sediment Study; Fairview Creek—alteration—fill; Federal Emergency Management
Act (FEMA); 1996 Flood; George Taylor; letter of map revision (LOMAR); flooding
on Fairview Lake; Fairview Lake Dam—construction; Gresham Sewage Treatment
Plant; earthquake fault line—Marine Drive—Blue Lake—Fairview Lake; Oregon LCDC
goals; city of Portland Flood and Landslide Hazard Mitigation Plan (October
1996); importance of wetlands; developing environmental consciousness;
development around Fairview Lake; Union Pacific Railroad; citizen activism;
City of Portland well fields; loss of species—Western Pond Turtles; Blue Heron;
Osborne Creek; Homer Campbell—fish (Coho) in Fairview Lake; habitat
restoration; effectiveness as citizen advocate; Columbia River Plan, Ordinance
234; Columbia Slough Watershed Council; Friends of Blue and Fairview Lake.
|
2000-02 |
| 2772.17 | Peter Tenow interview by Donna
Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 25
pages.
Biography and Description: Peter Tenow was born in Nurishell,
New York in 1929 and came to the Pacific Northwest via California as an adult,
and settled in Portland, Oregon. He moved to the Kenton neighborhood in 1996
and became involved in issues pertaining to the Columbia Slough. He was also a
member of the Friends of Smith & Bybee Lakes and the Columbia Slough
Watershed Council.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; move to Portland, Oregon; first
recollections of the Columbia Slough; Susan Barthel; Michael Houck; Columbia
Slough Watershed Council; Citizen's Advisory Committee; combined sewer
overflows (CSOs); Wastewater Treatment Plant Citizen's Advisory Committee;
North Portland Neighborhood—citizen affairs—lightrail—planning; Ed Washington;
Charlie Hale; Portland International Center (PIC); mitigation sites on the
Columbia Slough; Radio Towers—negotiations—activism; West Hayden Island;
Portland International Raceway (PIR)—Master Plan; Peninsula Drainage District
#1 (Pen 1); Natural Resources Management Plan; wildlife on the Columbia Slough;
natural areas near the Columbia Slough; Smith & Bybee Lakes; Port of
Portland; Port Commissioners; North Marine Drive—opposition to development;
Airport de-icing; Troy Clark; Marine Drive Expansion; jail project; U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers; filling wetlands; NIMBY; Adolphson & Associates; Kenton
Neighborhood—relationship to Columbia Slough; Forest Lake; Oregon Division of
State Lands (DSL); Metro Greenspaces; non-native, invasive vegetation on the
Columbia Slough—canary reed grass—purple loosestrife—Amalia blackberries;
philosophies regarding citizen activism; Dave Hendricks; Multnomah Drainage
District #1; City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services; Bridgeton; golf
courses—certified by Audubon Society—pollution; dredging.
|
2000-02 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services; land use
planning; Columbia Corridor Association; commercial interests on the Slough;
community activism—cooperation; Mike Houck and activism; Exposition Center; Joe
Ingles; work with Kenton Neighborhood Association; North Lightrail; Metro
Regional Government; Ed Washington; North Portland summit; Rex Burkholder;
Columbia Slough politics; City of Portland Bureau of Planning; Dave Hendricks;
Bob Groncznack (MDD#1 manager); North Portland development and
industrialization; Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT, PDOT); North
Marine Drive; Hayden Meadows; Jantzen Beach; airport de-icing; Columbia Slough
activism—successes—challenges; sewage treatment plant; total maximum daily
loads (TMDLs); Ramsey Lake; habitat restoration; Purple Loosestrife summit;
clearing vegetation; ecosystem management—insects; river management;
development of environmental awareness—father an environmentalist, 1960s; KPFA
Radio; radical politics; political transformation, Carmel, California;
perspectives—on art—on nature; work ethics; inheritance—Socialist and
Protestant ethics; Troy Clark; Audubon Society; attitudes toward the—
environment—Columbia Slough—politics; Lower Columbia River Estuary Program;
Friends of Smith & Bybee Lakes; Port of Portland; Brian Campbell.
|
2000-02 |
| 2772.18 | Troy Clark and Emily Roth
interview by Donna Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 15
pages. Photo—Emily Roth and Troy Clark. Photocopy of Smith & Bybee Lakes
pamphlet.
Biography and Description: Troy Clark was a citizen activist on
the Columbia Slough Watershed Council and the president of the Friends of Smith
& Bybee Lakes. Emily Roth, Wildlife Manager for Smith & Bybee Lakes,
was a Metro employee. This interview took place outdoors near the St. Johns
Landfill, Smith Lake, and the Columbia Slough.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Geography of the North Slough; water control structure to link
Smith & Bybee Lakes—dam, built 1982; Blind Slough; St. Johns
Landfill—relation to waterways—and Columbia Slough—and pollutants—and
wildlife—and future; management of Smith & Bybee Lakes; Columbia River
floodplain; Pearcy Lake; Ramsey Lake; bird watching; water levels; Avian
botulism; 1996 Flood—impact to Slough—and St. Johns Landfill; efforts for dam
removal at Smith Lake; non-native, invasive vegetation—Yellow Iris—reed canary
grass—purple loosestrife; habitat destruction; Multnomah County Drainage
District #1—levies; habitat on the Slough; pollution on the Slough; combined
sewer overflows (CSOs); City of Portland and the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality; Buffalo Slough Sediment Study; pollutants (PCBs, DDT);
citizen response to local, state and federal agencies; use of methane gas from
landfill at Ashgrove Cement; Forty Mile Loop; regional environmental
management—Metro; Leadbetter Peninsula—filling wetlands; founding of the
Friends of Smith & Bybee Lakes; Jim Morgan; St. Johns Neighborhood
Association; public participation in decision-making; Mike Burton, Metro
Executive Director; Marine Drive project—public opposition to industrial
development; Port of Portland; jail on the Slough; Multnomah County
relationship with Friends of Smith & Bybee Lakes; Rivergate; Radio Towers;
citizen activism; Friends supporters—CSWC—Audubon Society—Wetlands
Conservancy;
|
|
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Interviewer and narrator move to boat launch area near St.
Johns Landfill, on the Slough. Waterway restoration—Halton Company—Atlas—Copco
Wagner; Columbia Slough Regatta—view illegal fill; Oregon Division of State
Lands (DSL); fishing in the Slough; pollution in the Slough; signs on the
Slough—Hmong—Vietnamese—eastern Europeans—Cambodian—Cyrillic Russian;
contaminated fish; wildlife in the City of Portland (deer track on the Slough);
wildlife corridors; Columbia Delta; Columbia Corridor.
|
|
| 2772.19 | David Eatwell interview by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 15
pages.
Biography and Description: David Eatwell was born August 31,
1949 in Lebanon, Oregon. He graduated from Salem High School and attended
Willamette University before joining the U.S. Air Force in 1968. In 1991,
Eatwell moved from Houston, Texas back to Oregon, and in 1992 he purchased a
house in the Kenton Neighborhood. At the time of this interview, he served as
the Kenton Neighborhood Association Community Coordinator and was involved with
developing the Kenton Action Plan.
|
1999-11 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; professional life—television;
neighborhood involvement—causes; Kenton Neighborhood
Association—involvement—community representation—community outreach; rowing
park on the Columbia Slough; neighborhood relationship to the Slough; Columbia
Slough Watershed Council involvement; organizations involved with the Columbia
Slough—Bureau of Environmental Services—Friends of Smith & Bybee
Lakes—Audubon Society; historic changes in the Slough; Lightrail—North
Interstate Max—attitudes toward; community vision—Kenton Action Plan; Denver
Avenue—crime; businesses leaving Kenton; stores in Kenton—Safeway—Fred
Meyer—poor produce; class divisions; housing costs, 1990s; Kenton
neighborhood—crime—code enforcement—use of nuisance laws—landlord
notification—safety—history of—changes in—community response; attitudes toward
North Portland; environmental racism—and automobile exhaust—and location of the
St. Johns Landfill; Houston, Texas—lack of services; transportation issues;
Fourth of July concerts—Kenton Neighborhood; community recreation; urban
renewal; property values; rental properties—Kenton; Columbia Slough
Regatta—description of—agencies involved—history of; Columbia
Slough—pollution—fishing.
|
1999-11 |
| 2772.20 | Chee Choy interview by Donna
Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 14
pages.
Biography and Description: Chee Choy was born on June 5, 1959 in
Guadalumpur, Malaysia. He worked for the Malaysian Department of Environment
for approximately four-and-a-half years before coming to the United States in
1985 to attend graduate school at Washington State University. He also attended
the Oregon Graduate Institute, and began working for the City of Portland
Bureau of Environmental Services in 1992.
|
2000-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; education; involvement with the
Columbia Slough; Northwest Environmental Advocates—lawsuit; Columbia
Slough—sediment contamination—and Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ)—and
combined sewer overflows (CSOs)—and fishing—and race relations—and swimming—and
toxicity—and science; Columbia Slough Sediment Project; citizen's groups and
environmental action; impressions of the Slough; Susan Barthel; Michael Houck;
Columbia Corridor Association—Edna Cahoo; Bureau of Environmental Services—and
business—and public perception; Columbia Slough Watershed Council; fishing on
the Columbia Slough—and community education—and immigrants (Hispanic—Eastern
European—Russian—Romanian—Southeast Asian)—and African Americans—and health
risks—and economic issues (class)—and risk reducing methods—and Oregon Health
Department recommendations—and community response—and women; International
Refugee Center of Oregon (IRCO); Don Frances; funding community outreach
efforts; cancer risks from contaminated fish; PCBs; toxicity and human
health.
|
2000-05 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Vision for future of the Columbia Slough; challenge and
obstacles in working on Slough issues; environmental racism; community outreach
efforts—and Asian culture—and the Columbia Slough Watershed Council.
|
2000-05 |
| 2772.21 | Victor Nelson interview by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 7
pages.
Biography and Description: Victor Nelson was born April 12, 1930
in Portland, Oregon and has been a property owner in the Kenton Neighborhood
where he grew up for most of his life. Nelson grew up in the Kenton
Neighborhood and attended Kenton Grade School. In 1923, his family purchased
Kenton Machine Works, which serviced most of the industries located along
Columbia Boulevard, from Union Avenue to St. Johns, including packing houses,
slaughter houses, hog farms, shingle mills, and saw mills. In the 1990s Kenton
Machine Works became employee owned, and Nelson retired, although at the time
of this interview he continued to take an advisory role in its operations.
|
2000-02 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Kenton—description of—changes in—decline in; Columbia
Slough—and industry—and pollution—and description of (1940s)—and cleanup;
Columbia Boulevard; Pacific International Livestock Exhibition—description of
(1940s); Red Steer Café; Vanport, Oregon—description of—transportation; Jantzen
Beach; Denver Avenue; Vanport Flood—description after flood—and dikes in North
Portland; Kenton Businessmen's Club; Oregon Centennial (1959); Paul Bunyan
statue in Kenton; North Portland Business Association; Kenton Action Plan;
North Portland businesses—Beal Tank & Pipe—Malarkey, M&M Woodworking;
Kenton Machine Works—impact of industrial demise—and changes in machine
shops—and globalization; Lightrail.
|
2000-02 |
| 2772.22 | Michael C. Houck interview by
Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 11 pages.
Newspaper article.
Biography and Description: Michael C. Houck was born in
Portland, Oregon in 1947 and after moving around the country as a child, he
returned to Oregon in 1961 and attended high school in Estacada, Oregon. He
obtained a degree in Zoology from Iowa State University and a master's in
science and teaching in biology from Portland State University. He then worked
for OMSI as director of their community research center, taught for two years
at Oregon Episcopal School, and began working for the Audubon Society in 1980.
As part of his work on a project he called "Wild in the City: What's in Your
Own Backyard?" Mike Houck became involved with pollution issues on the Columbia
Slough. He has also been involved in Oregon Land Use Planning, the Forty Mile
Loop, and Metro Greenspaces.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; involvement with environmental
issues; Audubon Society—response in North Portland; Metro Greenspaces—and the
Columbia Slough—and the Forty Mile Loop—history of—and Houck's involvement—and
regional parks management—and individuals involved with inception—and the
Audubon Society; Columbia Slough—and image—and North Portland—and toxic
sediments—and development; Upper Columbia Slough—Alice Blatt—Alice
Cohen—Sherman Cohen; Fairview Lake—Jane Graybill; Peter Tenow—and Audubon
Society; youth in Portland; Susan Chandler; first awareness of the Columbia
Slough; Smith & Bybee Lakes—and development—and pollution; Brian Campbell,
Port of Portland; Mike Burton; Mikey Jones; Rivergate—the Biddle
estate—Willamette University; Dave Marshall; Tom McAllister;
Wild in the City; Columbia Slough Watershed
Council; Troy Clark; regional natural resources management; Forty Mile
Loop—history of—and Olmsted; Metro 20-40 Growth Management Plan; regional
waterways—Fanno Creek—Johnson Creek; Bureau of Environmental Services; Columbia
Slough Watershed Council; fishing in the Slough; Don Frances; Slough
politics—and the Port of Portland—and Rivergate; Kelly Point Park; change in
image for the Columbia Slough; Pam Arden; environmental politics—and Bud
Clark—and adopting the blue heron as Portland's city bird—and Metro Goal 5;
natural habitat corridor.
|
2000-01 |
| 2772.23 | Nina Bell interview by Donna
Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 16
pages. Research materials—citizen action suits filed by Nina Bell and Northwest
Environmental Advocates.
Biography and Description: Nina Bell was raised in Seattle and
went to Portland to attend Reed College, later attending Lewis & Clark Law
School. At the time of this interview, she was executive director of Northwest
Environmental Advocates, a position held since 1988. By implementing Clean
Water Act programs and spearheading litigation through NWEA, she has
represented environmental interests in regional and national negotiations.
|
2000-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Childhood—and environmental consciousness—and environmental
politics; family work on Amchitka Nuclear Blast; interest in water quality
issues; report on water quality in the Columbia River; Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA)—305 reports; Clean Water Act—enforcement of—and citizen suits;
National Estuary Program; Governor Barbara Roberts; Lower Columbia River
Estuary Program—and Willamette River—and Columbia Slough; involvement with
Northwest Environmental Advocates (NWEA)—called Coalition for Safe Power; Reed
College; recollections of the Columbia Slough; Mikey Jones; Kelly Point Park;
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs); Riverwatch; fishing in the Slough—and race—and
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality; Toxic Waters Map—agency
response—and the Oregonian—and environmental
racism; Fred Hansen; environmental politics—and government inertia;
contamination in the Columbia Basin; community outreach—and warning signs on
the Columbia Slough—and Richard Brown, Black United Front—and the City of
Portland; Willamette River cleanup; relations between the City of Portland's
Bureau of Environmental Services and Northwest Environmental Advocates;
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); Columbia Slough Sediment
Project; the Slough as a Superfund site; NWEA lawsuit; significance of citizen
action suits; environmental legislation—and government commitments; total
maximum daily loads (TMDLs); Environmental Quality Commission; Multnomah County
Drainage District #1 (MDD#1)—and implementing environmental regulations.
|
2000-04 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Clean Water Act—enforcement—as a starting point for action;
Port of Portland—political power—de-icing fluids; combined sewer overflows
(CSOs); Columbia Slough—critical issues—contamination—vision for future; Lower
Columbia estuary; Columbia Slough Watershed Council—composition; Columbia
Slough Regatta; Northwest Environmental Advocates—activities.
|
2000-04 |
Series D:: Cottage Grove, Oregon Community Histories , 1998-2000Return to Top
11 Interviews (14 cassette tapes) 2351, 2351.1, 2353, 2354, 2358, 2360-2366.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2351.1 | Printed material from Center for
Columbia River History Web Site. Portions of Web Site that use quotes from oral
histories collected for the Cottage Grove Community History Project. Written
and constructed by Katrine Barber. Edited by Laurie Mercier. |
|
| 2351 | Dorothy Crha interview by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 40 minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: At the time of this interview,
Dorothy Crha was a small business owner in Cottage Grove, Oregon. She and her
husband owned the Cottage Grove Comfort Inn and a gift shop, just off of
Interstate 5. She moved to the Cottage Grove area in 1960 when her former
husband, a timber faller, went to work for Weyerhauser. Dot Crha worked as a
meat wrapper for Lucky Market and then with her second husband developed a
trophy shop and a gift shop, out of which developed the Comfort Inn.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Logging industry—moved from Olympic Peninsula; downturn in
logging industry; Georgia Pacific; Weyerhauser; beginning the trophy shop;
developing the trophy shop business; trophies—materials used—changes in
materials used—how built—types; gift shop—beginnings; decision to build a
hotel; hotel ownership—daughter's involvement—clientele—employees; work
ethics—generational differences; community involvement and economic support;
timber industry decline—lack of effect on Crha's family; community composition;
Cottage Grove Chamber of Commerce; timber strike (1980s)—impacts; taxes and
small business ownership; transportation—between Eugene and Cottage Grove—Lane
Community College; community relationship with Eugene; changes in Cottage
Grove—Walmart; purchasing locally—supporting the community; 1964 Flood—brief
recollection; 1996 Flood—worked with Red Cross; advice to teens; outmigration
from Cottage Grove; reflections.
|
1999-10 |
| 2353 | Claire Dross interview by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 50 minutes): analog. Sound quality
poor.
Biography and Description: Claire Dross and her husband moved to
Cottage Grove in 1991 from Santa Rosa California when they retired.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Move to Cottage Grove, Oregon—reasons—first
recollections—residents' response; changes in community since 1991—timber
industry decline; community involvement—Selection Committee—Humane Society—Silk
Creek Neighbors Friendship Club; retirement—activities; Dorena Dam; 1996 Flood;
education in Cottage Grove—disappointment; transportation—public bussing;
employment opportunities—Cottage Grove—Eugene; differences between Cottage
Grove and Santa Rosa; social life in Cottage Grove; development in Cottage
Grove; settling into the community; snowstorm; the weather.
|
2000-01 |
| 2354 | Marie Geer interview by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 35 minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: Marie Geer grew up in Hebron, Oregon,
a small community a few miles south of Cottage Grove. Her father worked in the
logging industry as a log raft operator and he and her father worked at the
Woodard Mill. Hebron was dispersed by the Army Corps of Engineers to make way
for Cottage Grove Dam in the 1940s.
|
1999-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Book about Hebron; Hebron settlers; impact of dams on
Hebron—moving homes—buildings—property destruction—community loss; wedding
anniversary in Hebron Grange Hall; community relations in Hebron;
transportation changes; the Great Depression; Woodard Mill—Woodard
flume—destruction of—use of flume timbers in home; Cottage Grove Lake; family
life—aging—changes; domestic
relations—homemaker—gardening—childrearing—canning; community relations—during
illness—friendships—transience—at time of interview; Cottage Grove dam
construction—flooding; Hebron Dam; dam construction—compensation; U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers; response to dams; expansion and development of Cottage
Grove; community changes; Frank and Grace Lablue; agriculture and dairy
farming; logging—father ran log rafts; electrification.
|
1999-08 |
| 2358 | Herschel Henderly interview by
Katrine Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 9
pages.
Biography and Description: Herschel Henderly has overseen the
Cottage Grove and Dorena dams for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers since
1980.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Dam construction—earth fill and concrete control—regulating
outlets—gates—uncontrolled spillways—cress gates; storms and flooding—the 1996
flood event—remote control—hundred year floods—flood control
capacity—accumulated debris; recreational use at dams—camping; U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers; regulatory enforcement problems— strategies and solutions; user
fees; Cadet Program.
|
1999-10 |
| 2360 | Juanita Hensley interview by
Kathy Tucker
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. No Transcript.
Biography and Description: Juanita Hensley has lived in the
Cottage Grove area for her entire life and at the time of this interview lived
in a home built by her parents. Her father was the logging superintendent and
partner in Rickini Lumber Company, Inc. Hensley also worked as a bookkeeper at
Rickini during the company's first years of operation. After her children were
grown she operated her own bookkeeping and tax service.
|
1999 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Grew up in North Douglas County—Drain—father in logging
business—Bohemia— bought business; changes in the area—prices for logs and
land; the dams in the area—reservoir—road built—flooding; effects of the
dam—recreational opportunities; issues in the area—schools—Woodard Logging
Company—accident and insurance—effects of building the freeway—downtown
changes; Cottage Grove—contemporary issues—effects of environmental
regulations—job loss—salvage areas—environmental groups—Native
Americans—minorities—philosophies.
|
1999 |
| 2361 | Carol Logan interview by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: Carol Logan grew up on the Grande
Ronde Reservation. At the time of this interview, she was raising her
grandchildren in Springfield, Oregon, and was active in the wider Willamette
Valley community.
|
2000-01 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Concerns for indigenous people and the land—growing up on
Grand Ronde Reservation; changes for Native Americans; racism; non-Indian
values; casinos; dams; water crisis; flooding; profit motive in developing the
land; burial concerns; native plants; education and indoctrination in schools;
lack of community response to social issues; loss of indigenous values; forest
destruction; racial differences; recognition for Native Americans.
|
2000-01 |
| 2362 | Evelynne Plueard by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: Evelynne Plueard moved to Cottage
Grove with her husband (a native) from a berry farm near Lebanon, Oregon in
Linn County. She lived in downtown Cottage Grove for eighteen years, but moved
above Cottage Grove Dam in 1960. Her husband worked for Weyerhauser, as did her
son and his wife. Mrs. Plueard, an artist, has volunteered in the community,
teaching pottery and drawing, among other things, to the area's school
children. She was 79 years old at the time of this interview.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Background—homemaker and mother; husband worked in the wood
products industry; area before the dams—floods; uses of the dams—recreation;
attraction to the area—open space; community geography—Soda Springs—London;
changes in the area—bedroom community—downtown—loss of hospital; community
needs—schools—adapting to changes; travel.
|
1999-10 |
| 2363 | Charles Plummer by Katrine Barber
2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: Charles Plummer lived in Cottage
Grove for much of his life. He began working for his uncle, a gyppo logger, at
age seventeen and later worked for Weyerhauser. At the time of this interview
Plummer was retired and lived half-time in Cottage Grove, half-time in Yuma,
Arizona.
|
1999-08 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Early memories of Cottage Grove and Dorena—flooding;
dams—construction—removal; logging—transportation—sawmills—and independent
loggers—and salvage regulations; environmentalists—protests; logging as
farming; clearcuts; mill wages; strikes; Weyerhaeuser—shutdowns—unions; changes
in the area—bus line from Eugene (transportation); Bohemia Days; hospital
closure; schools changing—lack of discipline.
|
1999-08 |
| 2364 | Retta Smith interviewed by Kathy
Tucker
2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 minutes): analog.
Biography and Description: Retta Smith was raised in Lebanon,
Oregon and has lived in the Cottage Grove area for more than 40 years. She
moved to Cottage Grove to live with her newly married older sister, Evelynne
Pleuard shortly before the onset of World War II.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Early years; Dorena Dam—floods; boardwalks in Cottage Grove;
father, a dairy farmer; crop rotation; raising berries; home construction with
material from old houses out of Dorena Lake; wringer washers; building the
dam—pouring the cement; husband worked in the woods—choker setter—the donkey;
recreation on Dorena Lake—fishing—board skiing; changes in the area; living by
the dam—roar of water—fears; flooding in Glenwood—row boats in Cottage Grove;
the Columbus Day Storm.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Community growth; getting a divorce—women's issues—going to
work—financial support—difficulties—support system; benefits of living in a
small community.
|
1999-10 |
| 2365 | Carlton Woodard interview by
Katrine Barber
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes each): analog. Transcript, 1
page.
Biography and Description: Carlton Woodard grew up in Cottage
Grove during the Great Depression and started the Kenwood Company.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Youth—the Great Depression—mill shuts—family lives in boxcars;
Bradley-Woodard Lumber Company; Cottage Grove dam; Dorena Dam; effects of dam
building; family's history in the area; changes in Cottage Grove over the
years—effects of the freeway—economic downturn—mills close—environmental laws;
changes in the forest products industry—lumber
transportation—railroads—quitting school to go to work; flumes; hospital
closure—government regulations for Medicare payments; Woodard Family
Foundation—library project; plywood and particleboard products—finishing
machines; O & C Land—history of land management—bids and sales—economizing
in lumber business—kurfs made thinner—government versus private land
management; unions—company management—medical benefits.
|
1999-10 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Old lumber companies—practices and changes—Heath Lumber
Company; gyppo loggers; sale to Weyerhaeuser; log pond rotation—mixing log
sizes—green chains; existing mills—tooled for small logs; future of Cottage
Grove—local schools—smaller communities—education and
opportunities—retirees—Middlefield Village; challenges of running a family
foundation; resource management—Eastern dominance in Western United States—
recreation—managing land as a crop; impact of big cities on small towns.
|
1999-10 |
| 2366 | Isabelle Woolcott by Kathy Tucker
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 2
pages.
Biography and Description: Isabelle Woolcott moved to Cottage
Grove at age four when her father relocated the family to open a meat market
downtown. Woolcott attended business college in Portland, Oregon, then returned
to Cottage Grove to work as a bookkeeper at Dougherty Lumber Company in 1939.
Eighteen years later she began working for the South Lane School District where
she worked for 20 years. At the time of this interview she lived in downtown
Cottage Grove and was the chair of the Cottage Grove Museum Committee.
|
1999-10 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Moved to the Delight Valley area in 1919—family from Albany
and Leona; Cottage Grove Museum; early Cottage Grove memories—changes in the
town—games children played—parades—businesses—entertainment; business college
experiences; Dougherty Lumber Company—wholesale—poles for shipping—lumber stock
depletion—small mill closure forces closure; lumber business today; millrace
waterway; strikes; unions; logging Mt. David; effects of dam on area—Mathews
Flour Mill—fording river—floods; Dorena Dam; Cottage Grove Dam; employment—as
school secretary; the Great Depression—wages for baby sitting—wages at a
sawmill—café work—bakery—National Recovery Act—Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC); the Cottage Grove Hotel—Buster Keaton; issues in Cottage
Grove—schools—retirees—as a bedroom community for Eugene—Sera Gorda
complex—freeway and bridges; historic district; downtown association; hospital;
effects of growth in area.
|
1999-10 |
Series E:: Sandpoint, Idaho Community Histories , 1998-2000Return to Top
4 Interviews (6 cassette tapes). 2352, 2355, 2256, 2359.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2352.1 | Printed material from Center for
Columbia River History Web Site. Portions of Web Site that use quotes from oral
histories collected for the Sandpoint Community History Project. Written and
constructed by Katrine Barber. Edited by Laurie Mercier. |
|
| 2352 | Jonathan Coe interview by Katrine
Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 8
pages.
Biography and Description: Jonathan Coe is a former Executive
Director of the Sandpoint Chamber of Commerce and was Executive Director of the
Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce at the time of this interview.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Sandpoint business
community—problems—unemployment—timber—tourism; strategies for economic
growth—festivals—grants for marketing—recreational opportunities—three-legged
stool (timber, tourism and light manufacturing); changes in the Sandpoint
community—Coldwater Creek—retail—Kmart—Walmart; image problems from Aryan
Compound and human rights issues; Ruby Ridge; Mark Fuhrman; Richard Butler;
America's Promise Church; Aryan Nation parade; strategies for change—public
relations campaign—Bonner County Human Rights Task Force—Chamber of Commerc
response—Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment; press
attention—racism—Ben Stein—community response; Sandpoint Unlimited.
|
1999-04 |
| 2355 | Paul Graves interview by Katrine
Barber
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 Minutes each): analog. Transcript, 10
pages.
Biography and Description: Paul Graves is a United Methodist
Church minister and at the time of this interview was a member of the Bonner
County Human Rights Task Force in Sandpoint, Idaho.
|
1999-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tapes 1 & 2 | Contents:
Aryan Nation of Hayden Lake; Northwest Coalition of Malicious
Harassment; America's Promise; Christian Identity movement; David Barley; 11th
Hour Remnant Messenger; homosexuality; Aryan Nation march; minorities and
racism; community response to Aryan Nations—Bill Wassmith—education and
advocacy through forums; Montana Association of Churches—church
statement—resistance—fears.
|
1999-05 |
| 2356 | Brenda Hammond interview by
Katrine Barber
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 12
pages.
Biography and Description: Brenda Hammond was formerly the
president of the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force in Sandpoint, Idaho.
|
1999-05 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Issues in Sandpoint—Kootnay County Task Force—the Aryan
Nations in Hayden Lake—Christian Identity Church and Dave Barley—Richard
Butler—human rights issues; community involvement—Buzz Ardnt—the Northwest
Coalition of Seattle—the Coalition for Human Dignity—rallies—Mark
Fuhrman—racial minorities in Sandpoint—the anti-Gay
initiative—homophobia—PFLAG—Lewis Beam of the Ku Klux Klan arrives—public
response—Sandpoint High School—web sites; goals—changing image—the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights—human rights and economic justice issues—Institute
for Human Rights Education.
|
1999-05 |
| 2359 | Gretchen Hellar interview by
Katrine Barber
2 sound cassettes (ca. minutes): analog. Transcript, 11
pages.
Biography and Description: Gretchen Hellar was the Human Rights
Task Force president in Sandpoint, Idaho at the time of this interview.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Task Force goals—creating a hate-proof community;
stakeholders—Richard Butler—the Eleventh Hour Messenger—POACT—Community
Assistance League—minorities; Task Force—community activism.
|
1999-04 |
Series F:: Umatilla Community Histories , 1998-2000Return to Top
14 Interviews (17 cassette tapes). 2771-2771.15.
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| cassette | ||
| 2771 | Printed material from Center for
Columbia River History Web Site. Portions of Web Site that use quotes from oral
histories collected for the Umatilla Community History Project. Written and
constructed by Donna Sinclair. Edited by Laurie Mercier. |
|
| 2771.1 | Thomas Morning Owl by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 11
pages.
Biography and Description: Thomas Morning Owl's family roots are
in the town of Umatilla. At the time of this interview, Thomas Morning Owl
worked in the language program on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation and was a member of the Cultural Resources Commission. He
has also been active in tribal politics and cultural revitalization on the
Umatilla Reservation.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family background; Umatilla, Oregon Townsite; election to
Tribal Board of Trustees; Leatt Joe (grandmother); Niktoway—Columbia Joe (great
grandfather); Patterson, Washington; islands in the Columbia River; meaning of
the word Umatilla; Inez Spino; Maude Joe; Dr. Leroy Allen—Umatilla excavation
(UM-35); repatriation; tribal interest in the Umatilla townsite; traditional
use of Umatilla site; Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA);
archeology at Umatilla—native sentiment toward; "potholing"; Laura Kradatsky;
Tribal Development Office; Antone Minthorn; Colonel Dick Kopecki; city of
Umatilla and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; historic use of Umatilla townsite;
city of Umatilla; Blalock Island; Tom Joe; removal of Umatillas to the
reservation; George Spino; Susie Joe; Annie Joe; Dr. Bruce Rigsby; Umashaat;
languages—Umatilla—Cayuse; Blood Reserve, Southern Alberta, Canada—Blackfeet;
John Day Dam; language retention—cultural significance; cultural revitalization
on the Umatilla Reservation.
|
1999-04 |
| 2771.2 | Sam Nobles by Donna Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 18
pages.
Biography and Description: Sam Nobles went to Umatilla, Oregon
in 1943 when his family purchased a farm. They worked in the cattle and
agricultural industry, and Nobles became a livestock brand inspector. He
retired in 1988.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family move to Umatilla, Oregon from Enterprise, Oregon; dairy
farming; childhood on the farm; farm description; crops raised; local dairy
production—operations; dairying in Umatilla County; biography; Umatilla High
School during the building of McNary Dam; family history; Umatilla Ordnance
Depot; Bureau of Reclamation; irrigated agriculture—Umatille—Hermiston—Columbia
Basin; harvesting melons; small farms; agricultural base of Umatilla County;
corporate farming; changes in Umatilla during building of McNary Dam—after the
dam was built; work in agriculture while in high school; Umatilla Ferry; daily
life around Umatilla; losing the dairy farm—replacement with rock crusher;
Umatilla Sagerider's Club (rodeos); Umatilla Rodeo; impact of John Day Dam on
town of Umatilla—loss of historic buildings; 4H; impact of federal funds in
Umatilla; education; Umatilla School Board.
|
1999-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Education in eastern Oregon; Three Mile Dam; McNary Dam;
Umatilla Basin Project (not native); Irrigon Canal; Umatilla salmon; John Day
Dam—impact on town of Umatilla.
|
1999-03 |
| 2771.3 | George Hash by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 7
pages.
Biography and Description: George Hash was mayor of Umatilla,
Oregon at the time of this interview. He and his family went to Umatilla in the
early 1950s after the building of McNary Dam. He worked as a school teacher,
first in Umatilla, then in Hermiston.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Vanport, Oregon; military service - WWII; being a prisoner of
war; move to Umatilla; city politics—Umatilla; city interaction with federal
government; Oregon Irrigator's Association; dam breaching—impact on Umatilla;
agriculture and transportation—barging—truck traffic; work in construction;
John Day Dam—impact on Umatilla; Umatilla Army Depot—incineration
project—community impact; Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program
(CSEPP)—planning in Umatilla, Oregon; Toelle, Utah; Umatilla Women's Prison—bid
for prison; prisons as industry.
|
1999-03 |
| 2771.4 | Donna Fuzi by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 14
pages.
Biography and Description: Donna Fuzi was raised in the
Hermiston—Echo—Stanfield Oregon area. At the time of this interview, she had
worked at the Umatilla Army Depot in Hermiston, Oregon for nearly twenty years
and was involved with a chemical weapons incineration project.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history—eastern Oregon; youth; joining the army; hired
at Umatilla Army Depot, 1979; experiences at depot as a child; training as a
guard at the Depot; chemical weapons—types of; history of the Umatilla Depot;
living conditions at the Depot; Ordnance, Oregon; J.J. Turteling—Turtletown;
education; hiring practices at the Depot; jobs held at the Depot—Quality
Assurance—Public Affairs—Chief of Chemical Preparedness; public perspective of
the Depot; ; Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program (CSEPP);
Depot—safety plans; chemical weapons, 1970s—public
response—composition—design—effects of exposure; Operation Golden Cargo, 1988;
conventional weapons—design; incineration project—history—public response;
weapons storage—conditions—monitoring—safety issues—weather; WWII accident at
Army Depot; wildlife at the Depot; use of Depot when dismantling (incinerator
project) is completed; transporting ammunition; McNary Dam.
|
1999-04 |
| 2771.5 | Donna Fuzi by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 11
pages.
Biography and Description: Jeff Van Pelt, of Umatilla descent,
worked in the Department of Natural Resources on the Umatilla Indian
Reservation at the time of this interview.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Training as an archeologist; work with USDA Forest Service;
work with Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation through
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act; impact of Columbia River dams on
native culture—eradication of place; attitudes toward native culture;
co-management; traditional philosophies; Native Americans—loss of history;
cultural genocide; attitudes toward non-Indians; Treaty of 1855 (Walla Walla);
intercultural communication; native response to treaties; salmon, dams, and
Native Americans; cultural significance of the Umatilla townsite; Umatilla
River—salmon re-population (Umatilla Basin Project); inundation of
place—cultural significance; capitalist system—impact on human community;
personal attitude toward mainstream American culture; human interaction with
nature; reserved treaty rights; attitudes toward treaties; youth; ancestral
connection on the reservation; tribal resistance.
|
1999-03 |
| 2771.6 | Roy Gunsolley by Donna Sinclair
2 sound cassettes (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 11
pages.
Biography and Description: Roy Gunsolley and his wife, Evie,
went to Umatilla, Oregon in 1956. Roy operated a service station, and the
family opened a successful drive-in restaurant in the 1970s, still operated by
their son at the time of this interview. Gunsolley has acted as a volunteer
policeman in the city of Umatilla and served on both the city council and the
volunteer fire department when John Day Dam was built.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Biographical information; move to Umatilla, 1956; truck
traffic, 1950s; transportation—eastern Washington (Tri-Cities) and Oregon;
drive-in restaurant; community activities—police department—city council
(1960s); John Day Dam—US Army Corps of Engineers negotiations with community
members—fire fighting practice in old town; Umatilla Army Depot; railroad
expansion, Hinkle; wine industry—Columbia Basin; salmon counting; dams—impact
on fishing; lower Umatilla—disposal of townsite; ecological protections in
Oregon; landscape change near Umatilla.
|
1999-03 |
| Tape 2 | Contents:
Pivot irrigation systems; Bill McLanahan; Ray Dunn; circle
irrigation.
|
1999-03 |
| 2771.7 | Margaret D'Estrella by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 14
pages.
Biography and Description: Margaret D'Estrella's family lived in
and around Umatilla throughout her life. The Portland Seattle Spokane Railroad
and agricultural opportunities brought her family to the region near the turn
of the century (1905). At one point in the 1930s, her family also lived on
Blalock Island in the middle of the Columbia River. D'Estrella spent part of
her adult life away from Umatilla, returning in the 1969 to find a changed
community after the building of dams on the Columbia.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; Portland Seattle Spokane Railroad; return to
Umatilla in 1969—visible changes in the landscape —townsite; interactions with
Native Americans; changes in the Columbia and Umatilla Rivers; Celilo
Falls—Indian fishing; Umatilla Ferry; work as aquatic instructor; real estate
transactions (family) in Umatilla; work at Oregon Ship, WWII; housing at
McNary, Oregon (from WWII housing in Portland); transportation, eastern Oregon
to Portland, 1930s; living on Blalock Island (1930s)—mining—description of
island—growing peaches—school; Dr. Blalock; Patterson, Washington; living in
Hermiston, Oregon—Umatilla Ordnance Depot; work history—Kaiser Shipyards—child
care; St. Johns Neighborhood, WWII; parenting.
|
1999-03 |
| 2771.8 | Gloria Lampkin and Ernabel
Mittelsdorf by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 16
pages.
Biography and Description: Gloria Lampkin moved from Missouri to
Stanfield, Oregon in the late 1940s and her father worked at the Umatilla Army
Depot. She began working as an administrative assistant at McNary Dam in 1953,
retiring from her position in 1990. Ernabel Mittelsdorf was born in Boardman,
Oregon, and lived there when the town was moved due to John Day Dam
construction. She worked with Gloria Lampkin at McNary Dam from the early 1950s
until 1990 when she also retired.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Gloria Lampkin—biographical information; GL—employment at
McNary Dam; McNary Dam dedication—work involved—description; McNary
Townsite—description; housing during dam construction; U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers—housing—operations—management; USACE district headquarters—Walla
Walla District; fish facilities—ladders—operators; guards at McNary Dam; U.S.
Army; Umatilla Ferry; Ian Pinkboilen; Columbia River—freezing—weather; changes
in community after building McNary Dam; construction—mobility of workers;
taverns; Boardman, Oregon—town removal—changes; Power City—naming contest;
changes in administrative technology—working with computers; pigeon problem at
McNary Dam—technological fix; dam construction—safety issues—accidents; meeting
Mrs. Charles McNary; Janis Paige; Blalock Island; Pendleton Grain Growers—silos
removed during John Day Dam construction.
|
1999-04 |
| 2771.9 | Guadalupe Escobedo by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 10
pages.
Biography and Description: Guadalupe Escobedo was born in San
Francisco, California, January 5, 1965. Her family went to Umatilla, Oregon in
the late 1970s when she was fourteen years old. Escobedo was among the first
Latinos in the area. Both her parents worked in the food processing industry
and as a teen she worked in the fields on weekends and during the summer. At
the time of this interview, Guadalupe Escobedo had obtained her Master's degree
and taught first grade in the Hermiston public schools.
|
1999-11 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Moving to Umatilla; father's work—Simplot food processing
plant; family members from Mexico working during harvest season; father
migrates to United States with Bracero Program; illegal migrants; amnesty laws;
Agri-Northwest—work as a teen; weeding—watermelon—wheat—onions—women;
education; harvesting potatoes; Migrant Program—preschool program; labor
conditions—safety; standard of living—Pacific Northwest versus San Francisco;
bilingual education; teaching in Hermiston, Oregon; English Language
Acquisition Program (ELAP); Latino migrants—reasons for leaving Mexico;
responsibilities that come with educational success; Umatilla High School—few
Latinos—dating; community changes; discrimination.
|
1999-11 |
| 2771.10 | Federico Ramos by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. Transcript, 9
pages.
Biography and Description: Federico Ramos was born in Jalisco,
Mexico and migrated to the United States via California in the early 1990s. He
moved to the Hermiston, Oregon area to work in the agricultural industry in
1992. At the time of this interview he worked as a temp for the Walmart
Distribution Center in Hermiston and waited to obtain a more permanent
position.
|
1999-11 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Working in agriculture, Hermiston area; apple harvest;
Potlatch; work at Walmart Distribution Center; Shady Brook Lambert; attitudes
toward the United States; opportunities in the United States; changes in
Hermiston; agricultural work—weeding—planting—pay—topping onions; pruning
apples—description—considerations—types of; agricultural
work—transportation—housing—food—health care—accidents—safety (chemicals);
labor issues—strategies—negotiations; education; discrimination; Western
Empire; opportunities in United States—education.
|
1999-11 |
| 2771.11 | Jose and Maria Rodriguez by Donna
Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. No Transcript.
Interview in Spanish
Biography and Description: Jose Rodriguez migrated to the United
States with his father as a child during the Mexican Revolution. Maria
Rodriguez was a Tejano, born in Texas. They migrated to the Umatilla Hermiston
area in the 1940s to work in the agricultural industry and remained to raise
their family.
|
1999-11 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Jose—family history—migration to United States; Maria—family
history; migrant experience; work performed in agricultural industry; family
life; work experience.
|
1999-11 |
| 2771.12 | Keith Rodenbough
1 sound cassette (ca. 60 minutes): analog. No Transcript. See
librarian for restrictions.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; work as a river boat pilot on the Columbia
River; navigating the Umatilla Rapids; McNary Dam; changes in Umatilla.
|
1999-04 |
| 2771.13 | Alva Stephens
1 sound cassette (ca. 30 minutes): analog. Transcript, 6
pages.
Biography and Description: Alva Stephens, a long term Umatilla
resident, was born in Portland, Oregon, February 17, 1927 and lived in Umatilla
from the time he was in third grade. This is a recording of his recollections,
based on a set of questions prepared for the Umatilla Community History
Project.
|
1999-04 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history; changes in the landscape—circle irrigation;
changes in the weather; recollections of Old Umatilla; salmon in the Columbia
and Umatilla Rivers; salmon—attitudes toward decline; Blalock Island; Umatilla
Ferry; economic development in Umatilla; Umatilla Basin Project; Indian
fishing; dam breaching; Native Americans in Umatilla; fish politics; John Day
Dam drawdown; river management.
|
1999-04 |
| 2771.14 | Dottie Stephens by Donna Sinclair
1 sound cassette (ca.10 minutes): analog. Transcript, 2
pages.
Biography and Description: Dottie Stephens, a long term Umatilla
community member recorded her recollections for the Umatilla Community History
Project.
|
1999-03 |
| cassette | ||
| Tape 1 | Contents:
Family history—Ernest Red Reeves—migration to Umatilla;
changes in Umatilla since childhood; buildings removed for dams—loss of
history; McNary Dam.
|
1999-03 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Dams--Columbia River Region--History
- Dams--Oregon--History
- Dams--Washington (state)--History
- Hydroelectric power palnts--Columbia River Region--History
- Water resources development--Columbia River Region--History
- Water-power--Oregon--History
Corporate Names
- United States. Bonneville Power Administration--History
Geographical Names
- Camas (Wash.)--History
- Columbia River Region--History
- Columbia River Watershed--History
- Columbia River--Power utilization--History
- Columbia Slough (Or.)--History
- Cottage Grove (Or.)--History
- Sandpoint (Idaho)--History
- Umatilla (Or.)--History
Form or Genre Terms
- Oral histories
Other Creators
-
Corporate Names
- Center for Columbia River History (creator)
- Oregon Historical Society (creator)
This collection processed and
described by Joshua Binus and Marie Bagwell, 2001, and Donna L. Sinclair and
Clark Hansen, 2003, as part of the Northwest Archival Processing Initiative,
funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission
2003
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