NTDMG453.xml Guide to the Moose Creek Ranger District Historical Files 1893-1995 Moose Creek Ranger District Historical Files Finding aid prepared by Laura Guedes Funding for processing this collection was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. University of Idaho Library © 2009 Finding aid encoded by Laura Guedes 2009 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( ).Describing Archives: A Content Standard University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives MG 453 Moose Creek Ranger District Moose Creek Ranger District Historical Files 1893-1995 20 cubic feet 21 boxes The Moose Creek Ranger District is part of the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho. This collection contains the historical files. This collection is in English

Historical Note

The Moose Creek Ranger District of the Nez Perce National Forest maintains two historic ranger stations: the Moose Creek Ranger Station and the Fenn Ranger Station (District headquarters) built in 1922 and 1939, respectively. The files were collected in 2008 at the original Moose Creek Ranger Station located on Moose Creek, inside the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area.

The historical files of the Moose Creek Ranger District span approximately the years 1893 to 1995. Included in the records are reports, field notes, memorandums, news clippings, photographs, correspondence, and maps.

The original subject arrangement of the Moose Creek Ranger District files was maintained. A rough description of the content of these historical files is provided in the inventory of the boxes, based on the original titles of the folders. Note that this description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. There might exist other subjects and projects inside each box as well as more of the same in different boxes.

The collection is open to the public. Researchers must use the collection in accordance with the policies of the University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives.

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with Copyright Laws (17 U.S.C.) and any other applicable statutes.

Moose Creek Ranger District Historical Files, MG 453, Special Collections and Archives, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho

The historical files of the Moose Creek Ranger District were in the possession of the Moose Creek Ranger Station until transferred to the possession of Dennis Baird until time of the donation.

The historical files of the Moose Creek Ranger District were donated to the University of Idaho Library by Dennis and Lynn Baird, between 2008 and 2009.

This collection was processed using the Basic processing method.

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Moose Creek Ranger District Forestry and Forestry Products Idaho Inventory 1 Administrative Sites, Stations; Air operations; Airstrips and Aviation; Boundaries; Botany 2 Fire 3 Geology (includes mining and hydrology); Grazing 4 Homesteads, ranches, and lodges; Inspection; Lookouts; Magruder; Maps 5 Moose Creek in general; Nez Perce National Forest; Outfitting packing; Place names 6 Personnel and Personnel reminiscences 7 Photographs 8 Reservoirs; Rivers (Includes Selway); Salmon River and Primitive Area; Selway-Bitterroot Primitive Area and Wilderness 9 Land use and management 10 Soils; Timber (includes photographs Timber Sales 1969); Trails and Roads; Women 11 Wilderness Education; Wildlife 12 Wilderness Ranger’s Information Guide – Dick Kuhl; Resource Data Collection Handbook; Selway-Bitterroot History; Field books (Kuhl’s diaries) 13 Wilderness: important documents, the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness and the Moose Creek Ranger District, wilderness ethics, fire in wilderness, general training, duties; Local fire history 14 Wilderness Fire Management: aerial photographs used in fire planning – Bear Creek, 1972 15 Wildlife habitat; Mining law; Sale area map, Missoula Roundwood Sale 16 Range analysis and plans: management and permits; Way of Life; Outline of history of Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area 17 Moose Creek District history 18 Other Resources; General 19 Forms and reports; Timber; Planning 20 Recreation; Special uses 21 Capability maps; Dispatcher Book Moose Creek (maps); Moose Creek Family Album, 1991; Certificate of Land Grant to Fredric A. Shissler, 1893